Pictionaries 11-20 and synonyms Unit 11
Magazine presentation due April 2- see page 19 of the yellow packet
(If you look at the chart, you will see that the homework grades are not very strong for the third marking period. Students MUST be responsible for learning inside and OUTSIDE of school. In our school, 70% is passing. The bottom number is a student: student 1, student 2, etc.)
Today:
We discussed the idea of powerful and powerless as found on page 8 of the yellow packet. I have been teaching the students the idea that, in ads aimed at us, we either see who we are or who we want to be. Therefore, since we are discussing the magazine and its audience, trying to figure out who they are, we can look at the people in the ads. By doing that, we will see the audience as they are or who they want to be. Now, do they want to see themselves as powerful or powerless? I was throwing around the word "confident." Does the ad seem to imply that, as a result of buying the product, the audience will feel confident? I think the answer will come back as yes. However, the audience doesn't always want to be powerful. Sometimes they just want to be happy or nice. I see a lot of those images in the teen fashion magazines.
