Teaching others Pygmalion's Bride/Salome (Timo)

 Pygmalion's Bride

Global issue: Women empowerment

- Constantly referring to Pygmalion and how he wants to 'shape' the woman to his will.

- Duffy brings out the graphic, sexually violent treatment of the Bride.

- In the second to last stanza, Duffy uses sexually charged words to describe how the Bride pretends to enjoy the sexual interaction.

- In the last stanza, the Bride is 'liberated' from the man.

Salome

Global issue: Femininity

- Focuses on dangerous female seductiveness

- This poem is interesting to both feminist and marxist.

- Duffy retells the biblical story of the step daughter of Herod II and daughter of his second wife Herodias

- The poem presents the traditional story but Salome speaks and behaves like a modern woman

- Wide use of intertextuality

TED talk - a special type of text

The difference of TED style: 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-does-ted-style-talk-differ-from-other-lisa-evans

https://speakupforsuccess.com/how-are-ted-talks-and-business-presentations-different/

List of TED speakers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TED_speakers 

Belief and values: Beauty (work in progress)

Task: Discuss what beauty is for you with your classmates.

Put your ideas about what it is in poem form. Share. 

An example by me:

From dawn to sunset

Beauty is what beauty does

Lends a helping hand

© Erika

Lines of inquiry

How are social constructs of beauty and gender created and communicated? (factual)

To what degree does one's cultural perspective shape one's understanding of gender and beauty? (conceptual) 

To what degree do media platforms have a responsibility to communicate healthy constructs of beauty? (debatable)

Beauty standards through history: https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/ (3:09)

Is beauty in the average? (read this and some related texts from the same site): 

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/is-beauty-in-the-average-or-the-individual.html

Techniques in advertising: 

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/techniques-word-shapes-advertising-26060.html

Ugly = the new pretty: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/21/ugly-is-the-new-pretty-bologna/

Vocabulary to talk about beauty: NB! Not every word is formal enough for using in IB assignments

https://boompositive.com/blogs/positivethesaurus/words-to-describe-beauty-synonyms

https://www.words-to-use.com/words/beauty/ (Discuss the quotes :) )

TED talks about beauty: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+beauty

Task (portfolio and presentation and blog): Choose one TED talk on beauty (not to same as any of your classmates), watch it and make a short presentation to class (including presenter, specific topic, main points they make and ideas they put forth + examples, specialist terms, your own opinion of the issue, anything else you deem worthwhile).

See the document (on Tera) on summarising to help you with language choices. 

In addition, make a blog post on it (incl. link to where it can be watched, main idea, GI). It could be in the same blog post with your explanation of what beauty is.

To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2.3

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson (unless the teacher has given you something specific to do). Each time include something that could and should be presented to the whole class the next time.

See which parts of PhilpotNew U2.3 Beauty the following might go together with:

* Same topic, different ways of presenting. What are the advantages and disadvantages of presenting an issue in such ways? Who might be the intended audience? 

How would you word a global issue here?

https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/malnutrition/articles/2018/04/12/in-mauritania-force-feeding-leaves-young-girls-with-long-term-problems

Fed to Wed (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YJm6w2IvU

Objectifying men:

https://www.mainstreethost.com/blog/sex-sells-sexy-men-objectification-men-advertising/

Could this be the beginning of a BOW?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/this-artist-re-created-sexist-vintage-ads-with-the-roles

(http://www.elirezkallah.com/photography)

Why is it so hard to see black and blue (Task 3.10 / Text 2.25): 

https://vulcanpost.com/188081/hard-see-black-blue-salvation-army-puts-thedress-new-light/

Task: Create a BOW :)

Task 3.11: Add catcalling to the list of problems.

Make Your Move!: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/

The Bystander Campaign: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/bystander (BOW!) (read about consent and bystander tips, etc., too)

PhilpotNew Task 3.12 rewritten for small groups (do NOT go there unless instructed to do so)

* Read the intro and point a (PhilpotNew p 135 Towards assessment).

* Go to Chapter 8 and read / discuss pp 321-322 (up till the end of Task 8.1).

* Refresh your memory of what is available on the blog in connection with the IO (and where exactly).

* Back to p 135. Read Texts 2.27 and 2.28 quickly, discuss point b, and pick a global issue to concentrate on.

* Annotate both texts, and do point c on your own.

* Instead of point d, share your outlines in your small groups.

* Do points e-j using feedback from your small group members.

* Save everything in your portfolio.

NB! You are not allowed to use the same texts for your real IO that you have used for this kind of practice.

Do NOT go past this line yet!

Analysis of The Diet by Carol Ann Duffy (only to be consulted after you have done PhilpotNew Task 3.12 as fully as possible): https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-diet/

Task: consult the online analysis, and add another layer to your annotation of the poem.

A student's analysis of Text 2.28: 

https://sites.psu.edu/rclvandevelde/2013/10/17/unit-two-paper-draft-two/

Beauty and fitness adverts: 

https://flashbak.com/beauty-and-fitness-adverts-the-fine-art-of-preying-on-a-bad-self-image-5469/

Portfolio task: Use Text 2.28 as the text for practice for Paper 1, with this guiding question:

How does this advertisement use written and visual language to ‘speak’ to its reader?

Teaching Others: Mrs Sisyphus/Medusa (Sithil)

Teaching others poems from "The World's Wife"

 

Mrs Sisyphus 

Global Issue: Mental suffering of women/Subjugation of Women

Mr. Sisyphus’ wife: Greek mythology

Themes:

• Inequality in relationships 
• Loneliness
• Ignorance
• Subjugation of Women

Duffy relates the myth to the modern times where a husband's dedication to work lead to less time spent with their family.

Medusa 

Global issue: Jealousy / Mental suffering of women

Medusa from Greek mythology

Themes:

•  Jealousy and the Consequence
•  Mental suffering of women

The entire poem can be looked at as an extended metaphor

Teaching Others: Pilates Wife/Mrs. Aesop (Enes)

 Teaching others ( Enes )

Global Issue: Forced Marriage 
Pilate's Wife 

• Point of view from Pilate's Wife, her not loving him anymore 

• Many connections with biblical stories 

• Complex ending 

Mrs. Aesop 

• Plenty of fables 

• More connections with biblical stories 

• Wife is tired of her husband 

Teaching others (Fred) Mrs Lazarus, Frau Freud - Carol Ann Duffy

GI: Overshadowing of the Female Perspective

Mrs Lazarus

-Dramatic monologue retelling of the biblical story of Lazarus, his death and rebirth

-From the wife's point of view, twisting the narrative of the always ready and permanently attached widow

-A tragedy, as the wife grieves sincerely and then is met again with her husband after moving on and getting romantic with another man

-Metaphors used linguistically, as well as powerful wording and religious parallels

Frau Freud

-Short, comedic poem

-Mocks Freud's proposition of female Penis Envy

-Rhymed, sing-song list of penis puns and allusions

-Freud, a man, makes claims about women's desires which Duffy denies outright and implies to be ludicrous through her use of jokes

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-stories/lazarus-raised-from-the-dead-bible-story.html

https://www.slideshare.net/satyapiccioni1/frau-freud-by-carol-ann-duffy-sigmund-freud

Teaching others: The World's Wife

Teaching presentation of ~15 min each.

Specific poems in this order (the person whose name is there is responsible for the presentation but they can ask one other person to help them in this (but not do their work for them)).

Thetis (Pradny)

Queen Herod (Steven)

Pilates' Wife (Enes)

Mrs Sisyphus (Sithil)

    Bonus: Mrs Darwin

Mrs Aesop (Enes)

Queen Kong (Pradny)

Mrs Beast (Neel)

Medusa (Sithil)

Circe (Anastasia)

Mrs Lazarus (Frederik)

Pygmalion's Bride (Timo)

    Bonus: Mrs Icarus

Salome (Timo)

Penelope (Steven)

Delilah (Anastasia)

Frau Freud (Frederik)

Look at it from (at least) two viewpoints: 

* as if this were your chosen IO text (Global Issue! + reference to the same global issue in other poems by Carol Ann Duffy)

* what kind of non-lit text would treat the same topic (that could be used for Paper 1 practice)

* what kind of Body of Work (non-literary) could be connected to this via the Global Issue

NB! In addition to teaching, create a blog post with the most salient points and any suitable links.

Beliefs and values: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Beauty

 To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson. If you have not done this, follow the teacher's guidelines (but for becoming a self-directed learner, setting your own is more useful).

Rosie the Riveter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter

Gender equity (article): https://hbr.org/2020/05/gender-equity-starts-in-the-home

BOW: ArtActivistBarbie: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/16/art-activist-barbie-protester-feminist-agenda

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/barbiereports?lang=en

Think of poems from "The World's Wife" by Carol Ann Duffy: which of them would you connect to the general topics of this unit, or, more specifically, to a sub-topic or a text.

BOW: The Gender Code (Gender & Sexuality Documentary): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zph7H-O0d5w (1:57:56)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

The movie "The Danish Girl" (try Netflix?)

https://people.com/movies/the-real-life-danish-girl-the-story-of-1920s-transgender-artist-lili-elbe/

Masculinity and hypermasculinity: 

Task: watch each, and summarise the ideas expressed in them in a paragraph of max 10 sentences (for your portfolio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0wt_tbdCI (8:28)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbX76n6A160 (6:44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gha3kEECqUk (toxic masculinity, 6:38)

TED talks:

Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" | Justin Baldoni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cetg4gu0oQQ

Another BOW: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/men-ups_b_999124

Iconography

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iconography.html
+
Who created a particular text? What as their aim? What kind of means did they use for this?
Is the source reliable? What tells you so?
Can you detect any bias? Is there any vital information that has been left out?
What kind of symbols have been included? Why?

Some possible guiding questions to go with the iconographic about Ukraine (available on Tera)

* How does the design of this map help readers to understand multiple possible outcomes of war?

* What techniques are used to shape the reader's understanding of the causes of war?

* Whose side is this map on?