5.+Dividing+Lines

=DIVIDING LINES= Objective: Students will analyze how societal conflicts are represented and shaped in media texts.

Gender, race, social issues. Conflict. Heroes v. villains. Conflict driven stories. Ad dividing lines by demographics. The Apprentice. Issues that pushed to margins by society. Assignments: Memorable public awareness campaign. Deconstruct brochures (college and health brochures). Ways to record use of gendered language. Resources: Trish’s head for essays. Deborah Cannon. Politics. Dorothea Lange, Jacob Riis (Susan has resources). FIELD TRIPS?


 * Unit Icebreaker Activity:** Students move to a part of the classroom depending on their alignments and affiliations (i.e. political, tastes and interets, background).

**__Key Terms__** Lessons __** David Brooks Essay ("Convergences" 422) Maya Angelou's "Human Family" Research your social network on Facebook or mobile phone and group by gender, race, age Opening questions: Which is more important, the individual or community Activity: Where are dividing lines in your own experience? Maintain a journal of observations of these divisions in your own life (property boundaries, police barriers at a political demonstration, tables in the cafeteria
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 * __Unit Intro:__**


 * __Journalism Mini-Unit?__**

- Highlight the effects of authorship and its affiliation on news story (News stories, photojournalism, magazine covers)
 * __Political Polarization in the Media__**

Explore the ways in which: -gender sterotypes are reinforced in media -the ongoing conversation of gender as a social or biological construct
 * __Gender__**

Activity: Photo Analysis - ("Convergences" 496) How do photographers capture gender differences. (Advertisements, photographs, music, poetry, memoir

Video -- Advertising's Image of Women, "Killing Us Softly" []

Explore the representation in the media of various ethnicities (Music, advertisement (sports marketing), television, short story/fiction
 * __Ethnicity__**

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 * __Socio-economic__**

__**Culminating Activty:**__ Assignment 4 ("Convergences" 94) - Reflection on David Brooks' essay Geneological Activity - Where they fit in Student-made documentary about a "Dividing Line" issue. Investigate to sides through interview.

Readings: //Zeitoun// by Dave Eggers David Brooks Essay ("Convergences" 422) Maya Angelou's "Human Family"

__**Resources (Add below):**__ [] Online publication devoted to music criticism, news, videos, mostly of independent music: [] Long form journalism site: []