Middle to High school students face a lot of pressure from stereotyped gender expectations, identity, peer pressure, and other expectations. You will be able to brainstorm some gender stereotypes and find examples of those stereotypes in popular culture and discuss how the stereotypes affect their lives. You will then analyze/evaluate the characters and characters’ speech from the following books: The Female of the Species and Th1rteen R3asons Why (and Netflix series). These discussions and findings will be presented to the class and discussed in your small groups.

On your tear-off poster sheet, during this week, answer the following questions:

• What it means to you to be male?

• What it means to you to be female?

• What personal stereotypes have you faced?

• How does those stereotypes hold up to what men and women should be? How does race play a factor?

• How do you personally feel women and girls are supposed to carry themselves? What about men and boys? 
  

In the honor of Black History month, I would like to highlight my previous mentor and Professor, Delita Martin (@blackboxpress), her work appears in the movie, The Photograph.

Delita Martin is an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University and an MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Formerly a member of the fine arts faculty at UA Little Rock in Arkansas, Martin currently works as a full-time artist in her studio, Black Box Press. Martin’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently Martin’s work was included in the State of the Arts: Discovering American Art Now, an exhibition that included 101 artists from around the United States. Her work is in numerous portfolios and collections.

Throughout history, the marginalization of Black women has led to problematic representations of their roles within community and family structures, as well as problematic visual and textual representations; thus making it difficult to document their positive contributions within collective systems. Martin’s current work deals with reconstructing the identity of Black women by piecing together the signs, symbols, and language found in what could be called everyday life from slavery through modern times. Martin’s goal is to create images as a visual language to tell the story of women that have often been marginalized, offering a different perspective of the lives of Black women.

Night Wiesel Elie

The little boy felt sorry for his father a lot even tho he felt hate to 

He fell in love with a girl she had some of the saddest eyes he remembered those eyes once they came from those camps fate let them meet 

Teeths were took just from greed even people like overseers took others teeth 

It wasn’t good from the nearly starving to the stale bread to the wet stinky buildings if you could call them that smelt horrible rancid the smell on there skin from improper showers and no enough water breaking back work that they did and didn’t know why because they reaped no benefits from it just slaving away.

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The story of an hour by Kate Chopin, In my opinion, Mrs.Mallards quest is described as finding her joy/happiness in life. Something that completes her, while she is on her last leg in life. In search of doing so, she must also cope with the news of her husbands death. During her quest to find fulfillment, she leans to the idea that she is free. Mrs.Mallard didn’t process the full understanding that she is free until she gazed upon the outside world, from her bed room. The idea and reinforcing thoughts that possessed her to believe that she is free actually had a pressing confirmation in her soul. “Free, free, free!” The vacant look after she processed those thoughts was followed by terror. By that time, she knew she had reached a point in her life of complete confusion, but at the same time, a comprehension of why she is free. She seen the years ahead that would wait for her, yet, she welcomed them in early, along with the emotional attachments that came with them. At this point in her quest, she realize that she doesn’t have any one to live for but herself. In her mind she still loved him.

What Do You Already Know About The Holocaust? What About The German, Jewish, and Polish People?

I know about the Germans murdering the jews. I learned about the Auschwitz Concentration camp where german soldiers beat, killed, and worked the jews to death. The germans disarmed the jews from having any chance of fighting back. Some jews were forced to flee German control. Some hid in their houses. Polish people were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camps, too. They were murdered for their nationality. The whole holocaust started over Adolf Hitler’s religious and systematic beliefs. He wanted to get rid of the jews and wipe them out from the entire planet. Even in the Auschwitz camp, I heard about scientists performing tests on people. They even put older people and children inside gas chambers, gassing them. They burned bodies for their own selfishness.

What Do you know about The Holocaust?What about The German,Jewish & Polish People

Something about the holocaust is that Adolf Hitler had a concentration camp were he held and killed people I also know that during the holocaust European Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the Holocaust era.I don’t know anything about polish people but I know that Jewish Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people from the formation of the Jewish nation.

The three types of irony are situational, verbal, and dramatic, and The Story of an Hour has all three types of irony flowing through it

Situational irony occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. And in the story of an hour it happen a few times like when Ms. mallard wasn’t actually sad about her husbands death the fact that she was excited is a perfect example of situational irony. Instead of be sad she “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. In other words she was going to her room to show that she was happy in private The majority of times when surroundings are described in stories after bad news, everything looks dark and gloomy because of the sadness that the character must be feeling. However, the surroundings Mrs. Mallard experiences are anything but dark and gloomy. The world was described as ”warm and friendly”x. She could hear someone singing and the birds twittering. Mr. Mallard lives and Mrs. Mallard dies. 

  Verbal irony occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. In this situation Mrs. Mallard never fell into depression just like the doctor said once her husband died. Mrs. Mallard’s sister though she was having health problems once she found out that her husband was dead, but in reality all she felt was freedom.“She it multiple times under her breath free free free.  The means that it was Mrs. Mallard’s joy that “killed” her, just not the joy the doctors think: what really killed the protagonist  was experiencing the joy of knowing that she would be free for the remainder of her life and then having that joy taken away. 

  Dramatic irony is also used in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” through Mrs. Mallard’s realization that she is free from her husband and with her death. During the time Mrs. Mallard spent alone in her room, she experienced a revelation that she no longer would be bound to her husband. However, no one else in the story knew of this realization. They all believed that she was extremely depressed, and that was the reason she had gone to her room. Josephine even thought that Mrs. Mallard was making herself sick. She’s actually in there contemplating how wonderful her life’s going to be. That’s both situational and dramatic irony. My proof from the story that she was unhappy with her relationship comes from the story pg. 2 “And yet she had loved him.. Sometimes often she had not”. Also after that Kate Chopin stated that she wasn’t making herself ill ” No she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window”

Other ways to understand she wasn’t sad about her husbands death the symbolizing of spring days in other words spring days are equal to renewal rebirth and new fertile

In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin we saw many instances of irony. Iron is the use of other words to express something different from the opposite to their literal meaning. In the story there are three types of irony situational, dramatic and verbal.

Situational irony is used in the story through Mrs. Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death. When she first heard that her husband died she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment. It seem to everyone there that she was very sad and went upstairs to be alone in her room. This is a normal reaction after hearing that a loved one has passed. However, once Mrs. Mallard is alone in her room, we see that she is not sad by the loss of her husband but relieved. It turns out Mrs. Mallard is happy her husband died and instead looks forward to her coming years to be free.

Dramatic irony is used in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour through Mrs. Mallard’s realization that she is free from her husband and with her death. While she was alone in her room she realized that she would no longer be bound to her husband but rather free to do whatever she choose. However, no one else in the story knew they all believed that she was very sad and depressed. Another example is when Mrs. Mallard dies. When she finds out her her husband is still alive she dies from an immediate heart attack. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease of the joy that kill’s.

Verbal irony is found in the story’s tittle The Story of an Hour. These words suggest a shot period of time in which not a lot of events tend to occur. However in the story the hour feels like a life time. Mrs. Mallard experiences a lot of emotions in the time span of an hour. Through the title we can see that a lot of things can happen in a short period of time.

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