Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Wonder Women & Superhero Sketchpad Week 2

Entrance Procedure: Phones in the door. Get Laptop. Write down homework. Open google Drive to your Superhero Sketchpad, but do not work on it.  Prep for Jedi Meditation.  (3 min of class time)

HW E9 and E9H:
  • Read 45
  • Study Africa. Use whiteboards and Sheppard Geography to practice.
  • Superhero Sketchpad Week 2 (Due Mon)
Objectives: Jedis will be able to write down 2-3 quotes from the film Women Women: The Untold Stories of American Superheroines, that represent the way women have been treated in comic books.

1. Jedi Meditation: Each class will vote on which Headspace pack they want to listen to next:
2. Open this week's slides: Superhero Sketchpad Week 2. Do NOT make a copy. You want to add these slides to your existing slides. Select the slides along the left-hand side and press ctrl+c. Open your existing documents, click at the bottom of all of the slides in the left side and pres ctrl+v.

3. Finish Watching Wonder Women: The Untold Stories of American Superheroines. We want to write women in our superhero narratives that do not follow media stereotypes and represent real women in a positive way. I will check your slides for week one and give you a grade for them.

4. Write down 2-3+ quotes that you believe represent the way women have been treated in comic books. You will be writing a TIEAC paragraph on Monday.

Monday, October 1, 2018

Wonder Women: The Untold Stories of American Superheroines

Objective: Jedis will be able to analyze gender stereotypes, where they come from and how they reflect reality in a T.I.A.C.

Homework: Read 45, Superhero Sketchbook, Fill out Africa Map

1. Venn Diagram: Write a list of adjectives to describe women, men and words that describe both.

2. Watch Wonder Women: The Untold Stories of American Superheroines. We want to write women in our superhero narratives that do not follow media stereotypes and represent real women in a positive way.

3. Write down two pieces of evidence for your TIAC paragraph.
  • 1 example of a stereotype of women
  • 1 example that goes against what we often believe about women.