Last week flew by and was a little crazy at times because of an end of the week Field Day!
Our big project for last week was all about media and body image. We first talked about how the media will try to sell things to you in a bunch of different ways. One way being, to make you feel guilty about yourself and how you NEED their product to help you fix that "issue". So, we talked a lot about advertisements and what those look like, who they're targeting, what's their end goal, etc.
The following day we focused on magazines and all of the positive and negative words/pictures that are displayed. It was the students' jobs to go through these magazines and cut out as many positive and negative words/pictures and give reason to why they think it's one way or the other. For example, there is a lot of photoshop in pictures that try to hide blemishes and make people look completely different their natural look, so that was a big one that students could find easily.
Also, students found a lot of diets in magazines and most of the time, those ads try to make people feel like they're not skinny enough. On the bright side, students found a lot of positive words that they included in their posters.
Overall, a great lesson that students had a fun time exploring! See you next week!
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