We continued our Gender unit today by looking at the way in which society has had an impact on the way in which we view the female body through history. Here is one of the excerpts we had the class analyze and excerpt.
Hello everyone,
We were so happy to see you all, after being out earlier this week! Here's what happened in class today:
We were so happy to see you all, after being out earlier this week! Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
I can communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
I can apply understanding of ideas and concepts to a new context or problem.
I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
I can effectively conduct and apply research.
Soundtrack: "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake. Selected for today because of society's obsessive relationship with bodies, which we analyzed today in class. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 5/24/18:
Check-In/Review Agreements
What Can I Do Today?
Gendered Products
Documentary Questions and Discussion
The Body Project
Gender in the World
Homework: Read the blog! Finish your documentary reflection questions and any other missing work. Seniors, your final project proposal is due today!
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Check In/Review Agreements: At the beginning of class, we went over the Courageous Conversations Agreements, as always, to begin our work together for the day. After checking in, we talked for a bit about what is happening in the world outside of class, before moving on.
What Can I Do Today?: We also asked students if there was anything they wanted to add to the "What Can I Do Today?" poster up at the front of the room, in terms of actions outside of class. We also noted that the list is live on the blog here on the upper right corner, with links!
Gendered Products: We REALLY enjoyed seeing what students found and posted in Google Classroom as far as gendered products! In class, we went over a few examples that students found, which were super interesting. Try and train yourself to see the ways in which we "gender" society in these sorts of ways.
Documentary Questions and Discussion: After the documentary last class, we asked students to write a reflection on watching it. The questions were:
What was your overall impression of the documentary?
Did you find yourself experiencing discomfort? How so?
What did you learn about gender?
Is there any information you learned that you will be able to use in the future, with your interactions with peers, family, or children?
If you have not turned this in via Google Classroom, please do so. We had a conversation in class about our reactions to the film - thank you for your engagement here!
The Body Project: The last part of class was spent analyzing the role of society's expectations on women throughout history. These images were selected from a book I had in college at Western Oregon University in a Gender Studies class, called The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, which I highly recommend. Here are the images we cut up and had students analyze:
What was your overall impression of the documentary?
Did you find yourself experiencing discomfort? How so?
What did you learn about gender?
Is there any information you learned that you will be able to use in the future, with your interactions with peers, family, or children?
If you have not turned this in via Google Classroom, please do so. We had a conversation in class about our reactions to the film - thank you for your engagement here!
The Body Project: The last part of class was spent analyzing the role of society's expectations on women throughout history. These images were selected from a book I had in college at Western Oregon University in a Gender Studies class, called The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, which I highly recommend. Here are the images we cut up and had students analyze:
Part of the book has to deal with the obsession over what a woman should look like, so we wanted students to look at these historical examples, annotate them like Mrs. Labossiere did at the start of the unit with Serena Williams, and find connections to present day examples. We shared out what we found in class.
Gender in the World: The last part of the day was devoted to looking at how other societies around the world view gender. If you had a particular cultural background you wanted to analyze, that was encouraged, but it could not be the United States. The assignment (also posted in Google Classroom) is here:
Gender in the World: The last part of the day was devoted to looking at how other societies around the world view gender. If you had a particular cultural background you wanted to analyze, that was encouraged, but it could not be the United States. The assignment (also posted in Google Classroom) is here:
The goal of this assignment was for students to try and see how gender has an impact around the world in all sorts of ways, and to try and identify some reasons why. Please submit this assignment via Google Classroom (or a paper copy, if needed), if you did not in class. Thank you! See you next week!
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