Blog Post 4: My Feminist Lens Text Set

This text set was created for the audience of an 11th grade classroom. The goal is to explore relevant themes of feminism and how they are viewed in 2024, and apply these themes into stories we read in class. With the impact of the election being heavily discussed in my fieldwork classroom, it felt relevant to pull this critical lens into the stories we read. 

FD.     Miller, Ed.D -The Art of Critical Thinking (Flipped Classroom). (2016, September 7). Critical Theory- a feminist approach to literature [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8BYn4rZpQ

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            Summary: This text is a brief run-down on feminist lens of critical theory and many of the common themes that are addressed when readers and analysts evaluate texts through these lenses. 

1) Evaluation of Text: With Reader and Task, this video sets up a beautiful background for any books with feminist themes or potential for feminist themes that we will be coming across within this unit. Their task would be to note any common themes that are things to pay attention to while reading texts through a feminist lens. Qualitatively, this video offers a background for students to build off of but would still need a teacher for clarification scaffolding while it is playing. 

Posing Question: Do we think all books can be analyzed from.   from a feminist lens?

           1. List of vocabulary terms: misogyny, domestic, modernity, patriarchy

           Feminism In India. (2021, July 17). What is the problem with our fairy tales? | Feminism In India [Video].       be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H53AuQg-x6M

           

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           Summary: This video gives examples of feminist critiques that this rhetor shares about various fairytales,                 providing an example of somebody using the feminist lens while evaluating a story. 

           

1) Evaluation of Text: Looking at reader and task, giving them an example of somebody else analyzing a simple story through this lens, is a simple way for them to understand this version of critical theory. Qualitatively, this video seems like it would suit a high school audience. 

List of vocabulary terms: ambivalent, "mood" of a story, dichotomy, agency

Posing Question: Can you think of a text that may have been written with this lens in mind?

          Munro, A. (n.d.). Boys and girls. Unknown, 1–3. https/www.giuliotortello.it/shortstories/boys_and_girls.pdf

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           Summary: This short story by Alice Munro is a story that discusses a young girl battling with gender roles.   roles, growing up on a farm and taking on more masculine tasks. 

           

          Purpose: This text can be used as a first practice at using the themes behind using a feminist lens. We 

           would spend two days reading and annotating this as a class and answering short answer questions about this l.  lens. 

           Evaluation of Text: Using StoryToolz to determine the readability score, the scores are located down 

           below. With reader and task in mind, I think text wise the themes are easy to recognize and talk about. 

           reading this as a class will be helpful as well with analysis. Qualitatively, the language used is understandable for a Junior class of readers who are focusing on analysis.

          

           List of vocabulary: perversity, monotonously, resignation, commotion

             

            Question Posed: How can we look at our main character and pick apart how the patriarchy at the time is 

          changing the way she acts?

      

           Butler, O. E. (2004). Kindred. Beacon Press.

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           Summary: This book is about the main character who is transported back in time to the  South. There, she must save her ancestor, a white slave owner, while dealing with slavery. This book explores many themes but one.       some of them can be viewed through lens of feminism.

            Evaluation of Text: The quantitative readability score can be shown in the picture down below.                             Qualitatively, this book explores relevant themes to a lot of different demographics with many relatable                characters and concepts that will resonate with a coming-of-age audience. With reader and task at hand,                 as we are working on exploring feminist themes, the main character of Dana, gives students to have                       relevant conversations about.

             Purpose: The purpose of using this text is to practice taking setting, characterization, tone, or themes and.      and practice analyzing it from a feminist lens.

             

           List of vocabulary words: cohabitation, celestial, antebellum, delusions

            Question Posed: How can we analyze characterization and setting through the feminist lens?

           Terrell, C. R. (2024, November 8). Feminists make sense of 2024 election aftermath: “Will a woman ever be president?” “Our work continues” - Ms. magazine. Ms. Magazine. https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/08/feminists-women-politics-reprentation-2024-elections/

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             Summary: This link analyzes the concepts of feminism in 2024. In the wake of Harris losing, my classroom has been filled with chatter about what is to come and what is important to our youth.

              Purpose: This text can be used as a precursor to a quick write after reading our short story and before.                 reading Kindred. It examines the cultural relevance of looking at stories and keeping the upheaval of.                     woman's rights in the minds of discussion of our youth.

           Evaluation: The readability score for this article will be located down below. This score represents the hugh complexity of the language used within this article. The themes of this article are also difficult to digest                    on the student's own which represents how I evaluated this text qualitatively. The reason this text was                     chosen for me was because reader and task, the themes of feminist literature go along with the relevancy of.       of the social landscape of America which deserves to be spoken about with the guidance of this article. 

                

            List of vocab words: fabric of democracy, optimism, qualified, advocation

           Question Posed: How do we think concepts of feminism are being received in the US today?

           Gray, K. (2023, December 14). Why young men are turning against feminism - the survey Center on American Life. The Survey Center on American Life - a Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Understanding the Way Cultural, Political, and Technological Changes Are Shaping the Lives of Ordinary Americans. https://www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/why-young-men-are-turning-against-feminism/

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           Summary: This article provides a basis of multiple perspectives on feminist takes in this country. It provides a take on young men and offers a basis on how many people feel during the political uproar of this country. 

            Purpose: I would share the two articles about the relevance of feminism in 2024 at the same time and                    have them do a quick write about either one of them.

            Evaluation: The readability score for this article will be located down below. Quantitatively, it feels like.             this could be more of an independent read after modeling the first article with summarization bullet points before the free write. Qualitatively, this article feels on theme with letting the students explore many sides.                      to a topic. This goes along with the reader and task as well within this lesson.

           

           List of vocabulary: gender gaps, masculinity, discrimination, pessimism

           Posing Question: Do you agree with both sides of how feminism is viewed in the US? Why do you                       think this is such a major topic in 2024? 

   

         

             

                                                                                                                                                                                                

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