This class meets in Ms. Ward's room in the Language wing.
REMEMBER: Days class meets during Long-Block, we take FIRST LUNCH!
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The focus of this course is to expose students to a variety of media formats while helping to develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of new and traditional media, and how the media, in turn, construct our every day reality in ways that are social, cultural, psychological and political. Strategies of how to access, recognize, interpret, analyze, evaluate, utilize, and create all forms of media will also be explored. Students will research, discuss, speak and write while becoming critical thinkers and viewers of various forms of media. Requirements will include weekly readings and viewings along with production of a number of media-based projects.
This is a tentative schedule and can/will change without notice:
Week One
Introduction to course
1/26: Course Overview, Slogan/Product quiz, Pre-Evaluation/Self Assessment
1/27: Introduce Media Autobiography Assignment, start reading "Being There"
1/28: Read "Being There"
1/29: No Class
1/30: Read "Being There"
Week Two
"Being There"
2/2: Media Autobiography Presentations (Media Autobiography DUE!!!)
2/3: Sub: Early Release Day: Continue reading "Being There"
2/4: Finish reading "Being There" and start watching "Being There"
2/5: Long Block: Watch "Being There"
2/6: Finish watching "Being There"
Week Three
Studying the Media
2/9: Chapter 1 and 2 PowerPoint
2/10: No Class
2/11: X-Day: Chapter 1 and 2 PowerPoint
2/12: Who Owns the Media
2/13: Media Conglomerates
Week Four
2/16-2/20: February Break
Week Five
Cool
2/23: Long Block: Watch "Merchants of Cool" and discuss
2/24: Read Chapter 4 & PowerPoint
2/25: 50 Ads assignment PowerPoint
2/26: No Class
2/27: 50 Ads work day
Week Six
Advertising/Cool
3/2: Sub: 50 Ads work day
3/3: Go over 50 ads
3/4: Long Block: X-Day: Introduce "So Yesterday" and Start watching "Super Size Me"
3/5: Continue watching "Super Size Me"
3/6: Finish watching "Super Size Me" and discuss
Week Seven
Cool Cont.
3/9: No Class
3/10: Early Release Day: Talk about "So Yesterday"
3/11: Sub: Finish "SuperSize Me"
3/12: AD ASSIGNMENT DUE (See link below); Read "So Yesterday"
3/13: Read "So Yesterday" and Prepare for Field Trip
Saturday, March 14th: Field trip to Boston.
Week Eight
Cool Cont.
3/16: Long Block: Go over "So Yesterday", Field Trip and start project
3/17: Work on project
3/18: Work on project
3/19: X-Day: No Class
3/20: Project Presentations
Week Nine
Product Placement
3/23: Sub: Watch "Behind the Screens"
3/24: Watch "Minority Report"
3/25: Long Block: Continue watching “Minority Report”
3/26: Finish watching "Minority Report" and discuss
3/27: Start watching "The Shop Around the Corner"
Week Ten
Product Placement Cont.
3/30: No Class
3/31: Finish watching "Shop Around the Corner"
4/1: Start watching "You've Got Mail"
4/2: Continue watching "You've Got Mail"
4/3: Long Block: Finish watching "You've Got Mail" and discuss
Week Eleven
4/6: Watch "The Shop Around the Corner"
4/7: Continue to watch "The Shop Around the Corner"
4/8: No Class
4/9: Start watching "The Island"
4/10: No School
Week Twelve
4/13: X-Day: Continue watching "The Island"
4/14: Early Release: Continue watching "The Island"
4/15: Watch "10 Things I Hate About You"
4/16: Long Block: Continue watching "10 Things I Hate About You"
4/17: Finish "10 Things I Hate About You"
Week Thirteen
4/20-4/24: Spring Break
Week Fourteen
Stereotypes
4/27: Stereotype PowerPoint
4/28: No Class
4/29: Introduction to Native Americans PowerPoint, Read "This Is What is Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" and discuss, start watching "Smoke Signals"
4/30: Continue watching "Smoke Signals"
5/1: X-Day: Finish watching "Smoke Signals" and discuss
Week Fifteen
Stereotypes Cont.
5/4: SUB: Long Block: Finish "Smoke Signals" and discuss
5/5: Early Release Day: African American PowerPoint
5/6: Start watching "Ethnic Notions"
5/7: Finish watching "Ethnic Notions" and discuss, Start watching "Color Adjustment."
***********Extra Credit Assignment***********
Look up either "Bert Williams" or "Coon Chicken Inn" and write in a paragraph or two a brief description of who or what the term was and the significance of it. Due on Monday.
5/8: No Class
Week Sixteen
Stereotypes Cont.
5/11: Continue watching "Color Adjustment"
5/12: Finish watching "Color Adjustment" and discuss
5/13: Watch "Reel Bad Arabs" and discuss
5/14: Long Block: Finish watching "Reel Bad Arabs" and discuss, Watch "Tough Guise" and discuss
5/15: PowerPoint on Gender Roles and watch, "What a Girl Wants"
Week Seventeen
5/18: Introduce Stereotype Poster and work day. Introduce "Birth of a Nation"
5/19: No Class
5/20: Watch "Birth of a Nation"
5/21: Watch "Birth of a Nation"
5/22: Watch "Birth of a Nation"
Week Eighteen
5/25: No School
5/26: Long Block: Continue watching "Birth of a Nation" and discuss
5/27: Stereotype Posters Due, finish watching "Birth of a Nation" and discuss, Introduce Podcasting
5/28: X-Day: Podcasting Cont.
5/29: No Class
Week Nineteen
Senior Presentations and Podcasting
6/1:
6/2: Senior Presentations
6/3: Senior Presentations
6/4: Long Block:
6/5: Senior Presentations
Week Twenty
Course Recap
6/8: Psychological Appeals in Advertising
6/9: No Class
6/10: Print Ads
6/11: Print Ads
6/12: Start watching movie
Week Twenty-one
Course Recap and Finals
6/15: Long Block: Course Recap and Study guide for final Continue watching movie
6/16: Finish watching movie
6/17: All Periods Meet:Study for final
6/18: No Class
6/19: No Class
Week Twenty-two
Finals
6/22: MEDIA STUDIES FINAL
6/23: No Class
6/24: Last day of school
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