Calendar
Week 1
English focus: standards, objectives and assessments can be found under the English tab.
Day 1
Introduce Essential Question: What is beauty? How does social media and advertisements affect the way we view ourselves? Partner activity: Write a paragraph describing what you look like (imagery). Write a paragraph describing your partner. Trade paragraphs and compare what your partner wrote about you to what you wrote about yourself. Write a reflection of your experience and what you learned about your self image.
Day 2
Introduction to Visual Rhetoric. Journal: What persuades you? Do you consider yourself gullible? Three persuasive appeals. Create posters and have a gallery walk.
Day 3
Model for Visual Rhetoric writing assignment. Show examples of advertisements and have students write down descriptions of the people featured in the ads. Have students share out their descriptions and create a class wordle. Have students create a graphic organizer for each rhetorical appeal and provide examples from the commercial.
Day 4
Collect Advertisements from TV, Social Media, and Magazines). Work in groups to dissect the rhetoric used. Write a synthesis paragraph about the persuasive appeals in the chosen ad.
Day 5
Socratic Seminar on the essential questions. Reflection paragraph.
Introduce Essential Question: What is beauty? How does social media and advertisements affect the way we view ourselves? Partner activity: Write a paragraph describing what you look like (imagery). Write a paragraph describing your partner. Trade paragraphs and compare what your partner wrote about you to what you wrote about yourself. Write a reflection of your experience and what you learned about your self image.
Day 2
Introduction to Visual Rhetoric. Journal: What persuades you? Do you consider yourself gullible? Three persuasive appeals. Create posters and have a gallery walk.
Day 3
Model for Visual Rhetoric writing assignment. Show examples of advertisements and have students write down descriptions of the people featured in the ads. Have students share out their descriptions and create a class wordle. Have students create a graphic organizer for each rhetorical appeal and provide examples from the commercial.
Day 4
Collect Advertisements from TV, Social Media, and Magazines). Work in groups to dissect the rhetoric used. Write a synthesis paragraph about the persuasive appeals in the chosen ad.
Day 5
Socratic Seminar on the essential questions. Reflection paragraph.
Week 2
Math focus: standards, objectives and assessments can be found under the Math tab.
Day 6
Measure body body dimension ratios of models in advertisements and on social media as well as dolls. Measure body dimension ratios of classmates. Record data.
Day 7
Discuss different types of graphs and when is best to use each type. Graph body dimension ratios and create posters highlighting important information. Share posters as a class.
Day 8
Collect data from school on how much students time and money students spend on beauty and beauty product as well as time spent on social media. Create surveys and hand them out to peers around the school.
Day 9
Data organizing day - discuss survey results and what they might mean and how we can create visual representations of data (what types of graphs to use).
Day 10
Discuss averages of data and any trends. Summarize results from body dimension data and time data and what we can learn from these statistics.
Measure body body dimension ratios of models in advertisements and on social media as well as dolls. Measure body dimension ratios of classmates. Record data.
Day 7
Discuss different types of graphs and when is best to use each type. Graph body dimension ratios and create posters highlighting important information. Share posters as a class.
Day 8
Collect data from school on how much students time and money students spend on beauty and beauty product as well as time spent on social media. Create surveys and hand them out to peers around the school.
Day 9
Data organizing day - discuss survey results and what they might mean and how we can create visual representations of data (what types of graphs to use).
Day 10
Discuss averages of data and any trends. Summarize results from body dimension data and time data and what we can learn from these statistics.
Week 3
Visual Arts focus: More information can be found under the PSA Project tab.
Day 11
Review instructions for PSA. Assign Group roles. Show example PSAs. Introduce technology and discuss how to use programs.
Day 12
Work with group to create storyboard and post to forum. Provide peers with feedback and reflect on feedback.
Day 13
Write and complete script for PSA. Turn into teacher for approval.
Day 14
Filming day.
Day 15
Editing and turn in PSA to teacher.
Review instructions for PSA. Assign Group roles. Show example PSAs. Introduce technology and discuss how to use programs.
Day 12
Work with group to create storyboard and post to forum. Provide peers with feedback and reflect on feedback.
Day 13
Write and complete script for PSA. Turn into teacher for approval.
Day 14
Filming day.
Day 15
Editing and turn in PSA to teacher.
Week 4
Day 16
Watch videos and vote for favorites to be shown school wide.
Watch videos and vote for favorites to be shown school wide.