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Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

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Title:

Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

URL:

http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/comic-makeovers-examining-race-207.html

Content Source:

ReadWriteThink

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Stereotyped images create false ideals that real people can't hope to live up to, foster low self-esteem for those who don't fit in, and restrict people's ideas. In this unit, students explore representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over two weeks and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover." This activity leads to greater awareness of stereotypes in the media and urges students to form more realistic visions of these images as they perform their makeovers.

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Content Standard(s):

English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 9	R2. Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts to develop a literal and figurative understanding as appropriate to the type of text, purpose, and situation. Examples: short and long prose texts, poetry, dramas Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R2. Literary texts Literal understanding Figurative understanding Text Purpose Situation Knowledge: R2. Students know: Necessary skills to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Strategies to analyze literary text to develop a literal and figurative understanding. Literary texts have different intended meanings depending on the genre, purpose, and situation. Skills: R2. Students are able to: Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Develop literal and figurative understanding of literary texts appropriate to the text, purpose, and situation. Understanding: R2. Students understand that: Literary texts can be understood on both a literal and figurative level.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 9	R3. Utilize active listening skills in formal and informal conversations, following predetermined norms. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R3. Active listening Formal conversations Informal conversations Predetermined norms Knowledge: R3. Students know: Active listening skills. Strategies to identify formal and informal settings. Engage in formal and informal conversations. Predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Skills: R3. Students are able to: Demonstrate active listening skills during formal and informal discussions. Practice predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Understanding: R3. Students understand that: Conversations and discussions follow predetermined norms which help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 9	R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Digital tools Electronic tools Appropriately Safely Ethically Knowledge: R4. Students know: Digital and electronic tools must be used appropriately, safely, and ethically. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Engage in safe and ethical behavior when using digital and electronic tools. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: Safe behaviors, interactions that keep you out of harm's way, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools. Ethical behavior, interactions that align to one's moral code, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 9	14. Create and edit digital texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 14. Digital texts Occasion Audience Purpose Tone Knowledge: 14. Students know: Necessary skills to create and edit digital texts. The intended audience and occasion should be identified before selecting a purpose and tone for digital text. Skills: 14. Students are able to: Create and edit a digital text for an intended audience and occasion. Create and edit a digital text to achieve a particular tone and purpose. Understanding: 14. Students understand that: Digital texts can be used to communicate with a variety of audiences and occasions. They should modify the purpose and tone of their digital texts depending on the audience and occasion. Editing is important in establishing a clear purpose and tone in writing a digital text. Editing is important in appealing to a particular audience and occasion with a digital text.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 10	R2. Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts to develop a literal and figurative understanding as appropriate to the type of text, purpose, and situation. Examples: short and long prose texts, poetry, dramas Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R2. Literary texts Literal understanding Figurative understanding Text Purpose Situation Knowledge: R2. Students know: Necessary skills to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Strategies to analyze literary text to develop a literal and figurative understanding. Literary texts have different intended meanings depending on the genre, purpose, and situation. Skills: R2. Students are able to: Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Develop literal and figurative understanding of literary texts appropriate to the text, purpose, and situation. Understanding: R2. Students understand that: Literary texts can be understood on both a literal and figurative level.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 10	R3. Utilize active listening skills in formal and informal conversations, following predetermined norms. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R3. Active listening Formal conversations Informal conversations Predetermined norms Knowledge: R3. Students know: Active listening skills. Strategies to identify formal and informal settings. Engage in formal and informal conversations. Predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Skills: R3. Students are able to: Demonstrate active listening skills during formal and informal discussions. Practice predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Understanding: R3. Students understand that: Conversations and discussions follow predetermined norms which help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 10	R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Digital tools Electronic tools Appropriately Safely Ethically Knowledge: R4. Students know: Digital and electronic tools must be used appropriately, safely, and ethically. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Engage in safe and ethical behavior when using digital and electronic tools. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: Safe behaviors, interactions that keep you out of harm's way, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools. Ethical behavior, interactions that align to one's moral code, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 10	14. Create and edit collaborative digital texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 14. Collaborative digital texts Occasion Audience Purpose Tone Knowledge: 14. Students know: Necessary skills to create and edit digital texts. Collaboration skills. The intended audience and occasion should be identified before selecting a purpose and tone for digital text. Skills: 14. Students are able to: Create and edit a collaborative digital text for an intended audience and occasion. Create and edit a collaborative digital text to achieve a particular tone and purpose. Understanding: 14. Students understand that: They can collaborate with peers to create one final product. Digital texts can be used to communicate with a variety of audiences and occasions. They should modify the purpose and tone of their digital texts depending on the audience and occasion. Editing is important in establishing a clear purpose and tone in writing a digital text. Editing is important in appealing to a particular audience and occasion with a digital text.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	R2. Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts to develop a literal and figurative understanding as appropriate to the type of text, purpose, and situation. Examples: short and long prose texts, poetry, dramas Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R2. Literary texts Literal understanding Figurative understanding Text Purpose Situation Knowledge: R2. Students know: Necessary skills to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Strategies to analyze literary text to develop a literal and figurative understanding. Literary texts have different intended meanings depending on the genre, purpose, and situation. Skills: R2. Students are able to: Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Develop literal and figurative understanding of literary texts appropriate to the text, purpose, and situation. Understanding: R2. Students understand that: Literary texts can be understood on both a literal and figurative level.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	R3. Utilize active listening skills in formal and informal conversations, following predetermined norms. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R3. Active listening Formal conversations Informal conversations Predetermined norms Knowledge: R3. Students know: Active listening skills. Strategies to identify formal and informal settings. Engage in formal and informal conversations. Predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Skills: R3. Students are able to: Demonstrate active listening skills during formal and informal discussions. Practice predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Understanding: R3. Students understand that: Conversations and discussions follow predetermined norms which help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Digital tools Electronic tools Appropriately Safely Ethically Knowledge: R4. Students know: Digital and electronic tools must be used appropriately, safely, and ethically. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Engage in safe and ethical behavior when using digital and electronic tools. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: Safe behaviors, interactions that keep you out of harm's way, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools. Ethical behavior, interactions that align to one's moral code, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	6. Analyze a text's explicit and implicit meanings to make inferences about its theme and determine the author's purpose. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 6. Analyze Explicit Implicit Inferences Theme Author's purpose Knowledge: 6. Students know: Strategies to comprehend explicit and implicit text meaning. Inference skills. Methods to identify the theme and purpose of a text. Skills: 6. Students are able to: Making inferences about the theme and purpose of a text by analyzing a text's explicit and implicit meanings. Understanding: 6. Students understand that: Text often has an explicitly stated meaning and an implied meaning. They can combine their explicit and implicit understanding to infer the theme and the author's purpose for writing the text.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	17. Use images, sound, animation, and other modes of expression to create or enhance individual or collaborative digital and multimodal texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 17. Images Sound Animation Expression Collaborative Digital texts Multimodal texts Purpose Tone Intended audience Intended occasion Knowledge: 17. Students know: Necessary skills to include images, sound, animations, and other modes of expression in digital and multimodal texts. Collaboration skills. The intended audience and occasion should be identified before selecting a purpose and tone for digital or multimodal texts. Skills: 17. Students are able to: Work independently or collaboratively to use images, sound, animation, and other modes of expression to create or enhance digital and multimodal texts. Work independently or collaboratively to create digital or multimodal texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Understanding: 17. Students understand that: Digital texts can be used to communicate with a variety of audiences and occasions. They should modify the purpose and tone of their digital texts depending on the audience and occasion. They will frequently collaborate with others to develop digital products in school and in the workplace. Images, sounds, animation, and other modes of expression can enhance digital and multimodal texts.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12	R2. Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts to develop a literal and figurative understanding as appropriate to the type of text, purpose, and situation. Examples: short and long prose texts, poetry, dramas Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R2. Literary texts Literal understanding Figurative understanding Text Purpose Situation Knowledge: R2. Students know: Necessary skills to read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Strategies to analyze literary text to develop a literal and figurative understanding. Literary texts have different intended meanings depending on the genre, purpose, and situation. Skills: R2. Students are able to: Read and comprehend a variety of literary texts. Develop literal and figurative understanding of literary texts appropriate to the text, purpose, and situation. Understanding: R2. Students understand that: Literary texts can be understood on both a literal and figurative level.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12	R3. Utilize active listening skills in formal and informal conversations, following predetermined norms. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R3. Active listening Formal conversations Informal conversations Predetermined norms Knowledge: R3. Students know: Active listening skills. Strategies to identify formal and informal settings. Engage in formal and informal conversations. Predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Skills: R3. Students are able to: Demonstrate active listening skills during formal and informal discussions. Practice predetermined norms for formal and informal discussions. Understanding: R3. Students understand that: Conversations and discussions follow predetermined norms which help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12	R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Digital tools Electronic tools Appropriately Safely Ethically Knowledge: R4. Students know: Digital and electronic tools must be used appropriately, safely, and ethically. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Engage in safe and ethical behavior when using digital and electronic tools. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: Safe behaviors, interactions that keep you out of harm's way, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools. Ethical behavior, interactions that align to one's moral code, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12	17. Use images, sound, animation, and other modes of expression to create or enhance individual or collaborative digital and multimodal texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 17. Images Sound Animation Expression Collaborative Digital texts Multimodal texts Purpose Tone Intended audience Intended occasion Knowledge: 17. Students know: Necessary skills to include images, sound, animations, and other modes of expression in digital and multimodal texts. Collaboration skills. The intended audience and occasion should be identified before selecting a purpose and tone for digital or multimodal texts. Skills: 17. Students are able to: Work independently or collaboratively to use images, sound, animation, and other modes of expression to create or enhance digital and multimodal texts. Work independently or collaboratively to create digital or multimodal texts that are suitable in purpose and tone for their intended audience and occasion. Understanding: 17. Students understand that: Digital texts can be used to communicate with a variety of audiences and occasions. They should modify the purpose and tone of their digital texts depending on the audience and occasion. They will frequently collaborate with others to develop digital products in school and in the workplace. Images, sounds, animation, and other modes of expression can enhance digital and multimodal texts.

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Comic Creator, comics, makeover, stereotypes

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Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media