Presentations

We've been working hard, so next week will be a chance to reflect on what we've done so far. You will be working on a presentation for next week. If you were absent today, you'll need to get signed up for a day/time.

The assignment sheet and lineup for presentations are below:

We’ve worked with several lenses that can be used to analyze a pop culture item, even though we just started calling them lenses last week. So far:

-Indie/mainstream (or defining by audience)

-Where are the non-white people? (race)

-Where’s the money/power (or what scholars call “Marxist”)

-Sci-fi/Western/primetime cable (or defining by genre)

-How are men/masculine/women/feminine represented (feminism)

Don’t you feel smart?

Before we move into our Watchmen/zine production unit, I want to spend some time strengthening these skills. As part of that, I want you to turn the lenses on yourself.

1) You will select one of the lenses above (or another discussion framework we’ve used) to apply it to one of the five media that you blogged about.

2) You will have a three-minute presentation to the class in which you introduce your media and what you like about it.

3) Then you will analyze the media based on the discussion framework, or lens, you selected. (Try to be objective.)

4) Finally, you will wrap up by explaining how this did and/or did not change how you view this object.

5) You will need to prepare slides or photos to show on the overhead.

6) Other props are also welcome, but keep in mind your three minute time limit.

MONDAY:

1 Yvette

2 Morgan

3 Rick

4 Liam

5 Sarah

6 Nicole

7 Lauren

8 Quintonn

9 Madison

10 Isabel

11 OPEN

12 OPEN

WEDNESDAY

1 Jocelyn

2 Trevor

3 Yesenia

4 Tiffany H

5 OPEN

6 Amber

7 Michael

8 Desirey

9 Daniel

10 Cedric

11 OPEN

12 OPEN

And, as a parting shot, here are Alyson Hanigan and Carrie Underwood at the Emmys. We've discussed both of them in class and look how similarly they're dressed! They must have known that somewhere, somehow, an English class was linking them together...