Comment!

Due: 2-26-09

Read the blogs that your classmates have posted. Respond to their thoughts. Here are your criteria:

• Make sure that you are signed in to Blogger so that you get credit for your comment(s).
• You may respond to the thoughts of anyone whom I teach.
• Comments need to be academically focused and thoughtful.
• Media: You need to post at least one comment.
• Honors: You need to post at least two comments.

Blog #4

Due: 2-26-09

Select one of the following topics to blog about.

Option 1:How do the media images & stereotpyes of men & women impact how we view each other professionally (at school, at work, in politics, etc.)?

• Example: Mary Pipher commented that the fragmented images of women’s bodies in perfume ads decreased the likelihood of voting for a woman for president.

Option 2: Open the "Celeb vs Hero.ppt" file (located here) and complete the activity. Then, analyze the stereotypes represented by the media.

Blog # 3

Due: 2-11-09

Choose a current TV show that you watch. 

• Consider how the ten American Core Values are represented in this show. 
  
• Analyze what the show tells viewers they should value. 
  
• Explain how it does so.