WORLD LITERATUREAUGUST 22ND

Warm-up: Now that you know what “culture” is, write about a movie or song that shows something important about our culture in the U.S. Give the name of the movie/song, briefly describe what it is about (2-3 sentences) and write about what you think it shows about U.S. culture (3-4 sentences).

REMINDERS Period 5: turn in your warm-ups on

the stool after class. I still need syllabi from:

Period 2: Period 4: Period 5:

Homework: due Monday. (Revise your planner.)

STANDARDS

Reading 3.12: Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period.

CULTURE Let’s watch some clips (movies,

music videos, commercials, etc.) that show an important aspects of U.S. culture…

After each clip, I’ll have you answer questions based on what you see.

CULTURE Before we do, a reminder about using

respectful language and respecting differences.

Rule 1: Always speak as if in this room, there is someone of every race, every religion, every gender, every age, and every sexual orientation.

Rule 2: Think before you speak; feet in mouth=gross.

CULTURE Clip #1: commercial for Victoria’s

Secret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ0x_X0xXgU

1) When I saw this, I noticed…2) This suggests that our culture

values…3) My opinion of this is…

CULTURE Misogyny= negative (or even hateful)

attitudes towards women. How does our culture create

misogyny? http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/

commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234

CULTURE Clip #2: trailer for Grand Theft Auto

video game http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=6AvIqS_62xA1) When I saw this, I noticed…2) This suggests that our culture values…3) My opinion of this is…

CULTURE How does our culture encourage male

violence?

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=226

HOMEWORK Sit down with a parent, grandparent,

aunt/uncle… anyone 40 or older who you don’t mind spending twenty minutes with!

Interview them about what culture was like when they were growing up. Ask the questions provided on the worksheet

or any others that you can think of that would get them to share aspects of their culture as a child/teenager.

Write down their responses and organize them into paragraphs. Due Friday!!!