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?
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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.
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.
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 that The Holocaust was when Adolf Hitler put all Jewish people in these concentration camp and put all jews in the gas camber. And Adolf Hitler was racist.
Adolf Hitler my knowledge of him comes from a movie the boy with the stripped pj’s, a book Anne Frank, A history lesson . Adolf Hitler a German man was rounding Jewish men, women, and child of all ages putting them in concentration camps he was not alone in his act he had several soldiers who under his command would do anything he believed blonde hair and blue eyed people had good Aryan genes.
What do you already know about the Holocaust? What about the German, Jewish, & Polish People?
The Holocaust was a very terrible time. The dictator was Adolf Hitler. He hated Jewish people. He murdered over 6 million Jews and held them in concentration camps. He murdered them in gas chambers. Jews were not welcomed at all they were captured and murdered.
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.
English Language Arts, Poetry, Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adolescents Literature, & Other Miscellany.
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