Moosehide campaign: http://moosehidecampaign.ca/ (in September?)
Gender violence, Jeremy Loveday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlb4Pu23kqw
Because I am a Girl
Status of Women Lesson plans: www. BCTF.ca/socialjustice
UNICEF intro to Gender Unit
Aboriginal Missing Women: Highway of Tears
TED talks:
Psycho-Social Health:
Why knit?
http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/research-and-data/emma-clark-gratton/why-your-brain-wants-you-knitting-252482?utm_content=buffer39f45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.littlethings.com/how-knitting-boosts-your-health/?utm_source=hcr&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=health
Mindfulness and Handwriting: https://www.headspace.com/blog/2015/09/23/can-handwriting-sharpen-your-mind/
Comprehensive lIst of film resources according to sub genre: http://www.drew.edu/wgst/film-resources
DOCUMENTARIES:
Burning Times: roots of patriarchy connected to medicine and witch hunts
Missrepresentation
Beyond the Mask
She's a Boy That I Used to Know
"Sex in a Cold Climate" (Ireland, Magdalene laundries)
"Against My Will" (Pakistan, honor killings)
"Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman" (Mexico, violence against women) "The Day I'll Never Forget" (Kenya, FGM)
"Kinsey" (documentary)
"Georgie Girl" (New Zealand, Georgina Beyer, first transsexual member of Parliament)
"The Brandon Teena Story"
"Tough Guise"
"The Celluloid Closet"
"The Times of Harvey Milk"
"And Still I Rise"
"Black Is, Black Ain't"
"The Heart of the Matter" (Women and HIV/AIDS")
"Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo/Mothers of the May Plaza" (Argentina, human rights)
"The Global Assembly Line" (Mexico and the Philippines, maquiladoras)
"Zoned for Slavery" (Honduras, maquiladoras)
"A Question of Equality" (documentary series)
"Born into Brothels" (Calcutta,India, redlight district)
"Made in Thailand" (global assembly line)
"Mardi Gras: Made in China" (global assembly line)
FEATURE FILMS
Billy Elliot (gender role expectations from a young age)
Precious (Intersectionality; restitution; Journals)
Far From Heaven (intersectionality)
"The Body Beautiful" (short feature by Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah)
"Fire!" (feature film)
"Water" (feature film)
"The Wedding Banquet" (feature film)
"Brokeback Mountain" (feature film)
"My Life in Pink" (feature film)
"Milk" (feature film)
"Kinsey" (feature film)
"Boys Don't Cry" (feature film)
"Go Fish" (feature film) "Moolaade" (Senegalese director, Ousmane Sembene's feature film about the conflicting cultural traditions of FGM and moolaade--the obligation to offer protection to those who seek it set in Burkina Faso) "If These Walls Could Talk" (Parts I and II)
Gender violence, Jeremy Loveday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlb4Pu23kqw
Because I am a Girl
Status of Women Lesson plans: www. BCTF.ca/socialjustice
UNICEF intro to Gender Unit
Aboriginal Missing Women: Highway of Tears
TED talks:
Psycho-Social Health:
Why knit?
http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/research-and-data/emma-clark-gratton/why-your-brain-wants-you-knitting-252482?utm_content=buffer39f45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.littlethings.com/how-knitting-boosts-your-health/?utm_source=hcr&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=health
Mindfulness and Handwriting: https://www.headspace.com/blog/2015/09/23/can-handwriting-sharpen-your-mind/
Comprehensive lIst of film resources according to sub genre: http://www.drew.edu/wgst/film-resources
DOCUMENTARIES:
Burning Times: roots of patriarchy connected to medicine and witch hunts
Missrepresentation
Beyond the Mask
She's a Boy That I Used to Know
"Sex in a Cold Climate" (Ireland, Magdalene laundries)
"Against My Will" (Pakistan, honor killings)
"Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman" (Mexico, violence against women) "The Day I'll Never Forget" (Kenya, FGM)
"Kinsey" (documentary)
"Georgie Girl" (New Zealand, Georgina Beyer, first transsexual member of Parliament)
"The Brandon Teena Story"
"Tough Guise"
"The Celluloid Closet"
"The Times of Harvey Milk"
"And Still I Rise"
"Black Is, Black Ain't"
"The Heart of the Matter" (Women and HIV/AIDS")
"Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo/Mothers of the May Plaza" (Argentina, human rights)
"The Global Assembly Line" (Mexico and the Philippines, maquiladoras)
"Zoned for Slavery" (Honduras, maquiladoras)
"A Question of Equality" (documentary series)
"Born into Brothels" (Calcutta,India, redlight district)
"Made in Thailand" (global assembly line)
"Mardi Gras: Made in China" (global assembly line)
FEATURE FILMS
Billy Elliot (gender role expectations from a young age)
Precious (Intersectionality; restitution; Journals)
Far From Heaven (intersectionality)
"The Body Beautiful" (short feature by Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah)
"Fire!" (feature film)
"Water" (feature film)
"The Wedding Banquet" (feature film)
"Brokeback Mountain" (feature film)
"My Life in Pink" (feature film)
"Milk" (feature film)
"Kinsey" (feature film)
"Boys Don't Cry" (feature film)
"Go Fish" (feature film) "Moolaade" (Senegalese director, Ousmane Sembene's feature film about the conflicting cultural traditions of FGM and moolaade--the obligation to offer protection to those who seek it set in Burkina Faso) "If These Walls Could Talk" (Parts I and II)
You will be meeting in your book club a total of 6 times over the next three weeks. You have been given a package that includes one coloured sheet for each role you will take on for the duration of your book.
Meet as a group and create a contract: decide who will take on which role and when and fill out your chart.
At the end of each meeting, the discussion director will collect and staple all the work from the group.
You have three library sessions booked to work on your group's final project: April 8, 9, 10. Your presentations are due on April 11.
Meet as a group and create a contract: decide who will take on which role and when and fill out your chart.
At the end of each meeting, the discussion director will collect and staple all the work from the group.
You have three library sessions booked to work on your group's final project: April 8, 9, 10. Your presentations are due on April 11.
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Novel Study: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
https://www.prestwickhouse.com/press-articles/press-articles-blog/2014/07/how-to-teach-life-of-pi
Study Guide: http://www.gradesaver.com/life-of-pi/study-guide/summary
https://www.prestwickhouse.com/press-articles/press-articles-blog/2014/07/how-to-teach-life-of-pi
Study Guide: http://www.gradesaver.com/life-of-pi/study-guide/summary
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Queen Veronica Project! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/meet-the-queen-mothers-10000-amazing-women-taking-back-power-in/
Halloween stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETa92ALukA
For Gender and Social Justice:
Honouring the Women who Came Before:
https://beccapiastrelli.com/remember-honor-women/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETa92ALukA
For Gender and Social Justice:
Honouring the Women who Came Before:
https://beccapiastrelli.com/remember-honor-women/
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU
Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czA_L_eOp4
School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU
Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czA_L_eOp4
Teacher Resources
Halloween Discusssion:
Halloween: Not Buying It: https://storify.com/RepresentPledge/notbuyingit-win-just-in-timefor-halloween
Origins: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/28/halloween-more-than-trick-or-treat-origins
Ethics: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-column/2014/oct/03/offensive-halloween-costume-ideas-news
High School Feminist Teacher Blog. This blog entry outlines one New York teacher's philosophy and some of her approach in terms of structure, assignments, and considerations.