Fabulous photo project by Rene Türk

BOW 

This is in downtown Tartu :)

Things to look for and discuss:
What kind of GIs does this illustrate?
Analyse at least one as you would analyse a photo, and one as you would analyse an advert.
How would you talk about it if the focus is on the GI?
Find out more about the artist.

What kind of poems by Carol Ann Duffy could you connect this to (through the topic and any GI)?

Write the introductory 1-minute introduction to this BOW as if you were using it for your IO.

This should end up in your portfolio. A document with the photos is also available on Tera.

Some social awareness campaigns:
https://art-sheep.com/25-of-the-most-clever-and-powerful-social-awareness-campaigns/

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?

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

The language of war

This should support PhilpotNew U4.1 and any war-related texts (incl poems by Duffy)

PhilpotNew pp 208-209: full text of The State of Union Address (George W. Bush, 2003):

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-23

Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?174799-2/2003-state-union-address (the extract in PhilpotNew Text 4.5 is the very beginning of it)

In any case, pay special attention to how words are used to describe war (euphemisms, blunt language, direct statements, hinting, allusion, imagery, metaphors, etc). Look at what type of text it is, and whether the author's choice of vocabulary, sentence patterns,, imagery, etc, is somehow dependent on the genre of the text, who wrote it, when, about which war, etc. Why has the author made such choices?

 A list of war-related vocabulary: https://myvocabulary.com/word-list/war-vocabulary/

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/war

Sensory language: 

Show, don't tell :)

https://studymoose.com/war-poets-and-the-five-senses-essay

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-bhcc-acceleratedenglish/chapter/sensory-details-examples/

Task: do the mindfulness five senses exercise: 

https://medcenterblog.uvmhealth.org/wellness/physical/mindfulness-mindful-monday-exercise/

Creative portfolio task: Write a paragraph about anything that you want to, using sensory language (all the five senses!)

George Carlin video on euphemisms (PhilpotNew p 210):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1FDWyfvvw (since this is long, leave it as homework)

Related articles (found by class of 2021):

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/the-language-of-war-and-weapons-1.3854 (Niks)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11056757/Why-slang-is-the-language-of-war.html (Nati)

https://soa.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/anthro_theses/russell_sara.pdf

http://www.ugr.es/~jsantana/lies/language_war.htm (Andrei)

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2019/06/euphemisms-acronyms-and-outright-lies-the-language-of-war/ (Kerli)

http://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356 (Marta)

Overview of global issues: 

http://www.worldrevolution.org/projects/globalissuesoverview/overview2/PeaceNew.htm

Turning war into art: https://www.wanderarti.com/turning-war-into-art/ - Is this intertextuality?

Trench art: https://daydreamtourist.com/2015/05/11/trench-art/

More of street art: https://www.streetartbio.com/

An example of a student's art sketchbook:  

https://www.studentartguide.com/featured/war-theme-a-level-art

Task: Start from doing PhilpotNew U4.1 task 1.10 + text 4.7, then move on to curate a class exhibition = BOW of Banksy's war-related pieces of street art. This should be a common document accessible through everyone's portfolio, and each student needs to present one piece of art to class with detailed analysis so that collectively you would have a BOW in which at least half the pieces of art are accompanied with explanations / analyses.

Videos about Banksy: 

Who is Banksy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoe3Nn5vuBg (13:54)

Banksy's street art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSsjC-F9bwk (6:17)

Banksy art hotel in Bethlehem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMS6Ds3qryY

Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUJ8zFtcu0 /1:26:10)