9th Grade - Freshmen had two sections to today's lesson. The first part was self-reflective, in that students were asked to list down what they considered "pivotal" moments in their own life. I provided some of my own as an example, and students were given a planning sheet to list off what moments in their own lives they considered important.
The purpose of this part of the lesson is for students to see how the same concepts we are focusing on academically are connected to their own lives; much in how we will look at the ideas of choice and consequence in "Romeo and Juliet," students should try to see how their choices in life have actual effects.
The second part of the lesson was focused on determining planned actions vs. complications when looking at a plot line. If there are no complications, the plot cannot advance because there is no conflict. We watched an episode of Futurama as a simple example, and students needed to be able to identify the planned actions in the plot, and the complications which provided conflict.
10th Grade - We spent today focused on advertisement and persuasive tactics used in marketing. As a class, we discussed the idea that marketing is often based on very specific demographics - the ads designed for teenagers are not the same as the ads designed for their parents. We dissected several ads in class - specifically, ads aimed at children (ex. Lucky Charms cereal), ads aimed at adolescents (Red Bull), and ads aimed at a larger audience (Apple Inc.).
As practice, students were given an activity in which they had to market a hard-to-sell product in a teenage demographic (for example, selling Lawnmowers to teenagers through Facebook ads). Most students came close to completion and we will finish this activity tomorrow.
9th and 10th Homework - S.S.R. sign-up by Friday!
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