1. Media 11: Gender Through MediaEQ
How does media help construct our identity?
How does media construct gender image and expectations?
How does media shape or inform relationships between genders?
Week 1
Week 2A/Week 2B
Week 3
Guiding Questions:
What defines gender?
In what media is gender represented and for what purposes?
What are the different types of genders that are represented?
What are the effects of gender in media on personal identity?
What are the intended purposes of gender representation for different audiences and different mediums?
What are the effects of gender representation on gender relationships?
How can we represent gender equitably and fairly?
How can we respond to inequitable gender representations?
Understand
Language shapes ideas and influences others
Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.  
Genders are multiple
Digital citizenship requries … awareness of its impact on individuals and Society
Know:
- elements of visual and graphic texts
- form, function, and genre of texts
- Male/female binary
- Sex vs gender
- gender types: features and indicators
Know
Oral Language strategies
Multi-model reading strategies
Form function and genre - audience purpose, technique
Shadowing, airbrushing, focus, contrast
Negative outcomes of gender representations
Nuclear family
Alternative and queer relationships
Sexuality vs gender
Do:
Synthesize from a variety of texts
Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, cultural, value and perspective in texts
Recognize how forms reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages
Use digital processes to create meaninful imaginative, and informal texts
Transform ideas and info to create original texts

2. Week 1
Week 2A/Week 2B
Week 3
Guiding Questions:
What defines gender?
In what media is gender represented and for what purposes?
What are the different types of genders that are represented?
What are the intended purposes of gender representation for different audiences and different mediums?
What are the effects of gender in media on personal identity?
What are the effects of gender representation on gender relationships?
How can we represent gender equitably and fairly?
How can we respond to gender inequity and make a difference
Summative Assessment:
Identification of a gender and gender features and analysis of purpose - how/why gender is represented in the medium
Formative
Collage of gender rep from single medium
G/O identify gender features (hair, heals, muscles, breasts, clothing, activities)
Summative
Identify gender in media/medium. Explain the purpose and audience of the media/medium, the purpose of gender rep for the medium. Critique the representations (positive or negative)
OPTIONS:
Body map
slam poem
Slideshow visual essay
Video
Formative:
Create a positive or subversive representation of gender in one of the following media
Positive videogame storyboard (or video game)
Advertisement redesign with explanation
Hiphop song
Slam poem
Sitcom or movie short
Tumbler
Activities
Group work: Collage. Each group is assigned a gender-specific magazine, and makes a collage of the gendered images.
Carousal to identify similarities within collage.
Independent work - features of genders G/O
Socratic Seminar

3. Texts
text that discusses/demonstrates gender construction, and binary, from birth (naming, pink/blue, toys, etc.) such as an article or maybe an online gender bias quiz
Text that explains gender as concept (for Secondary)
Slideshow of gendered items
List of gendered words
Slam poetry about gender
Article about Facebook’s multiple gender options
Magazine ads demonstrating gender performance, including queer   
Select youtube ads or blogs
Music videos
Grand Theft Auto 5
Teen Movie excerpt (Breakfast club?)
“You can’t be what you can’t see” (resource “media Analysis”, pg. 25)
Gendered quotes
Texts A
“Mooc and Midrift” from Merchants of Cool
Dying to be thin or Killing us softly
Recent Popular Teen Movie with “bros” as protagonists
“Under the influence” (resource, pg.23)
Magazine ads with unrealistic standards
WWE wrestling
The Big Bang Theory
Teen Movie Excerpt
The Mask I Wear
Texts B
Leave it to Beaver “the Wisdom of Ward cleaver”
Modern Family - to contrast with “the Wisdom of…”
Revolutionary Road
A TV show (Friends or How I met Your Mother) that plays with emasculation
Feminist Frequency “Women as rewards” youtube
Grandtheft Auto 5 analysis – webpage criticism (feminist frequency has one)
Dove ads
This month’s issue of Glamour “real women”
Article about Facebook’s myriad of gender options
Article about Facebook’s flipping of its icon to put women first
Other subversive texts that actively trouble gender roles
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, contrast with
Grey’s Anatomy’s Rosalyn
Media Smarts