Thursday, October 4, 2018

76 minutes

Learning Targets:

I can read and understand an academic argument

I can analyze cartoons for their underlying messages

I can discuss my ideas and listen to my classmates’ ideas

1.   SSR  

2.  Women in Cartoons:

Finish watching and discussing the portrayal of women in cartoons. Record your observations on this chart 

3.   In pairs, answer the questions at the end of the Women in Cartoons chart (questions about the Bechtel test) and briefly discuss as a class 

4.   Small groups: Discuss these questions:

·       Consider the early clips like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. What similarities did you see between them in terms body types, hair color, who their friends and servants were?

·       Now consider the more contemporary cartoons like Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, and Frozen—what has changed and what hasn’t?

Report out to the class. 

5.   Small groups: create sentence strips with themes that you see emerging or ideas that you want to follow up on as we go through this unit. Share your sentence strip(s) out to the whole class and tape them to the board. (2nd period needs to do this on Monday)

  

HOMEWORK: Read for at least 30 minutes from your SSR book