December (What!) 1st

Growing Up Questions

Go to the storycorps website and look at the section labeled parents.

Use these questions to guide a conversation with one of your parents (or both, or a different role model/parental figure in your life).

Make sure you record it!

This is due on Friday the 5th! Good Luck!

November 24

Our discussion in class today was fantastic.
Are there topics you would like Kristen to discuss further on her next visit?

Homework:
Read to page 133 in Ophelia Speaks

Have a great vacation!

November 12 and 14

Today we signed out Ophelia Speaks. Your homework for Tuesday the 18th is to read to page 61. We'll have a discussion on the chapter on Tuesday.

You need to select one of the topics presented and write your own account/creative piece connected to this topic. A first draft is due on Thursday the 20th. Be ready to share!

November 7

Women In Society:

Students need to polish their video blog posts. They can pair up with someone and share for feedback.

Partners for editing/feedback are as follows: 

Emma and Rachel

Taylor and Angela

Jenna and Ben

Emily and Hannah

Hunter and Brooke

Students need to read all of the following articles and write a blog post on them for next week.

Homework over the weekend: Watch a movie that is NOT mentioned here and run it through the Bechdel test. It can be a film you've seen before.

The new blog post is due on Friday the 14th.
The Bechdel assessment of your selected film is due on Wednesday the 12th.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest

http://www.avclub.com/article/thought-provoking-animation-about-how-pixar-films--211352

http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/10-famous-films-that-surprisingly-fail-the-bechdel-test.php

October 30, 2014

Discuss 3-4 music videos and the way women are portrayed in them.
Ideas:

• One artist over time
• One time period vs another
• One genre over time
• Two genres (compare and contrast)

October 20

Remember that your projects are due this Friday.
You need to do your blog posts from last class (see last blog).
Homework:

1. Find a song that describes you. Pull lyrics from the song and analyze/discuss why you've selected the song.
2. Find four music videos pre 1995 with women in them. 

October 16, 2014

Your projects are due on October 24. That is next Friday.
Today is the last time you will be able to work on them in class.

Homework:
Respond to one of the blog posts listed at the end of this.

Make sure you have at least one image or hyperlink in your post.

Talk about the issue (don't just merely summarize the article).

What does the article make you think about? Who does it make you think about? How does it connect to you or women in your life?  Tell the reader a story that connects (even if it is loosely connected). Make it engaging.

Getting Us Started Young

Relationship with Food

Objectifying Women

October 14, 2014

Today we worked on our projects.
If you are struggling then do the following:

1. Talk to me about it.
2. Try to come up with an essential question you would like to answer.

October 2nd

Today we looked at the images we selected to represent beauty.
Homework:
Take one (or two) magazines from class and use sticky notes to mark pages where you note interesting things about the articles and/or advertisements.

September 26, 2014

In class:
Today we set up our blogs.
Jenna will present next week. She is our final presenter!

Take THIS QUIZ and then write a blog post reflecting on your results. This will be your first post. Remember that we've set your blog to private.

For Thursday
October 2!
Find 20 images that define physical beauty. Put them in one folder on your computer.

September 20, 2014

Today the following people presented:
Hunter
Emily

We wrote about:
The Allure of a Mean Friend

We then listened to a portion of a This American Life piece titled that.
If you were absent, then please listen to the first 24 (ish) minutes of this episode. We wrote down things that stood out to us as we listened and then shared those ideas/thoughts at the end.

September 16, 2014

Here is a sample works cited page. You need to cite your images as well as your information.

Sample Works Cited Page

September 12

Today we shared some of our post secrets. Thank you for "going there" with the class. I know this is hard.

We made a list of notable women/men on the board. The list of men was to aid us in getting more on our list of females.

Homework: Due Thursday September 18th

Notable Woman Project

Your research must be presented in poster format (they will be hanging in the room), but the poster may take on a life of its own. 

Your poster must include: 

1. Facts about your selected woman (what makes them notable?)

2. 3-5 facts about women’s rights or progress during the selected woman’s lifetime. 

3. A famous quotation (or more) by the selected woman

4. An inventive title for the poster

5. Images to assist our understanding

6. A complete works cited page for research and images (may be on the back)

7. Use of appropriate color

8. Appropriate use of space (avoid blank space, as well as being too busy)

Emma: Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolikonikova

Hunter: Maya Angelou

Emily: Tina Fey

Ben: Oprah

Angela: 

Taylor: Tyra Banks

Rachel: Marilyn Monroe

Hanna: Ellen Degeneres

Jenna: Jennifer Lawrence

September 10

Today your post secret assignments were due. We postponed them to Friday.
We completed a "cross the line if" activity.
Your classwork (and at home work) involves reflecting on this activity. I feel like it went pretty well...no?

September 8, 2014

Today we looked at our list from the last class and selected our top ten topics and ranked them from one to ten (as far as importance).

We looked at some Post Secret entries.

Homework:
Create two Post Secrets connected to women.

1. Sharable (with the class)...This one is not anonymous.
2. Sharable (with me)...The class may see this one, but I'll be the only one who knows the identity of the creator.

September 4, 2014

Today we got to know a bit about each other. You wrote a piece about the following topics:

• Why am I taking this course?
• What topics do I want to explore?

1. dress code
2. powerful women
3. roles of women in different cultures
4. cutting
5. feminism
6. media portrayals of women and men
7. rape
8. gender
9. moms
10. eating disorders
11. trans (gltbq...)
12. slut shaming
13. reproductive rights
14. title IV (women in sports)
15. bitch
16. bossy
17. self-image
18. dieting
19. bitch
20. bossy
21. mean girls
22. domestic abuse/domestic violence

• Mrs. Sheldon should know this about me...

I'm really excited to teach this class and to learn and explore topics pertaining to women's issues with you.

You can access this blog to learn what we do in class each day. I can respond to questions about classwork via email, but I want you to come to this blog first if you miss class and/or need to make up work.