LESSON PLAN
► Title: The Media and the New Concept of "Beauty" ( To be or not to be Thin)
► Level: Conversation plus/advanced level
► Time Frame: 2 weeks
► Learning Outcomes: Students will read different articles, share ideas, give opinions, comment on actual issues and practice previously taught structures. (should)
► Technological Resources / material : pbwiki, You Tube videos, slideshows, hyperlinks, blogs, uploading photos,flickr,voicethread
► Assessment/Reflection: Putting together all comments and wrapping up the students' opinions in a closing paragraph.
► Extension: Follow-up could be some extra writing or oral presentation, if teacher feels there are still some gaps left.
DAY 1
STudents read the following quotes about beauty in the blog: http://conversationopinion.blogspot.com/2008/11/beauty-quotes.html .
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful." Karl Kraus
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her." Author Unknown
Task 1 SS Discuss with their partner, then go to our blog and post their answers to the questions: What do they mean? Do you agree with them?
Task 2 SS interact with each other commenting on what their friend said.
Task 3 SS Post their own quote and upload a picture to represent it
DAY 2
Students discuss the following questions What is beauty for you? What is the standard of beauty in our society? What sort of features are considered beautiful?
task 1 Students click on the following site and look at the pictures of the top 50 models. http://models.com/model_culture/50topmodels/index.cfm
In pairs students discuss the following questions: What do they have in commom? What are some commom physical characteristics? Do you think they are beautiful?Why/why not?
Task 2 Students click on http://ty.rannosaur.us/10-famously-ugly-people/
In pairs students discuss the following questions: What do they have in commom? What are some commom physical characteristics? Do you think they are ugly?Why/why not?
Task 3 : Students go to our PIBWIKI and add what are the physical characteristics of ugly and beautiful people in our society http://advicepagelesson-finalproject.pbwiki.com/To-be-or-not-to-be-Thin-conversation
Day 3 - Time to share and connect outside the class
Being thin is certainly a standard of beautiness in our society.Although it is hard to believe, being thin wasn't always in. We can see from centuries of documentation of female beauty that the ideal woman used to be, soft, and rounded differently from our current ideal of beauty
Task 1- SS Take a look at the following western standard of beauty timeline adapted rom hubpages.com www.slide.com/r/yHke7Hzr1T8QJUagqbntGselPlrZ3j7a and discuss: Why do you think the standard has changed? Do you think thin women are more beautiful than the others?
Task 2 Students Access the link bellow and post their comment if they agree or disagree with the author.http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2008/02/20/men-really-do-prefer-thin-women/#comments
Day 4 (Students find the information bellow in the following link http://conversationopinion.blogspot.com/2008_11_07_archive.html)
The Commission of Science and Technology of Brazilian Senate has just approved a project that forbids models who have a bodymass index bellow 18 to take part in advertisings and fashion shows Doctors and Fashion stylists disagree with this project, according to them it would be more efficient to do a follow up on the models health. Some months ago, models were rejected on the runway in Spain due to their low body-mass index. Click on the likns bellow and read the following articles
Task 1 : students acess the links below and read the texts
"Spanish fashion show rejects too-skinny models" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14748549
"When is thin too Thin?"by Eric Wilson http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/fashion/21MODELS.html?pagewanted=1Questions
"The weight debate gets heavy"http://www.stylelist.com/blog/tag/BMI/
Task 2 students Watch the following videos from youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaruRGY7EM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1731400614466797113
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTDY6q2Wh0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SngxtI7f-po
Task 3
- Students discuss the following questions What is your opinion? Is it necessary to be thin to be beautiful ? Should models with an BMI bellow 18 be forbidden from being in advertisements and fashion shows? Why?/Why not? What should the government do? What should parents do in order to prevent their children from being influenced by the media ?
- Students post their opinion, and comment on what two friends said.
http://conversationopinion.blogspot.com/2008_11_07_archive.html
Task 4 Each student now record their own opinion using flickr and voice thread. They access the class blog for instructions
http://conversationopinion.blogspot.com/ ( Final Task)
Task 5 students post their story in our wikipage : http://advicepagelesson-finalproject.pbwiki.com/Final%20task
Students listen to their friends digital story and add their opinion to at least 2
Comments (1)
Carla Arena said
at 1:07 pm on Nov 17, 2008
wow, girls! I'm totally impressed. what a wonderful lesson plan. After my first feedback, I can see you haven't stopped. In fact, you excelled and went much beyond of what was expected for a lesson plan. In fact, you have almost a month of activities for a conversation plus class, full of rich, controversial resources. You finished it up with putting students in charge. After having discussed beauty issues, seen vocabulary related to the topic, written about it, you give them a chance to show their own view on the topic. I'm sure this class will be a blast, and I do hope you use it and share your ideas with your colleagues as it is a topic that everyone has something to say. Just one thing I mentioned to others, to use Voicethread students don't necessarily need to go through the Flickr stage as not always it works with Voicethread. They can take the photos and upload them straight to Voicethread. Or you could even consider having four groups in class. Two working with Flickr and only still images and two other groups working with voicethread. It could be fun! I've never tested doing that way, but seems promising and I'm sure you'd have wonderful results. I'm so glad you really got the idea on what I told you.
Congratulations! You're wonderful 21st century educators! Thanks for challenging yourselves to take this digital ride and bearing with me! Can I borrow your lessonplan when I have another Conversation Plus class at Thomas?!:-)
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