Representing Social Groups

A Homework InvestigationYour Task

Why?

Locating Texts

Producing Your Analysis

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Choosing a Group

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Your TaskChoose a social group that fits the following conditions:

Belonging to the social group involves some form of choice or agency.

You can reasonably find texts that represent the group.

Locate at least four texts (2 visual, 2 print) that represent your social group in different ways.

Produce an analysis of each of the texts in terms of how they use language and generic conventions to position the audience to respond to their representation of the social group.

Each of these analyses are to be complete on your blog.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Why?By doing these tasks, you will:

strengthen your understanding of representations;

hone your analytical skills;

practise your exam response writing style;

develop your understanding of how texts work.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

TimelineJune 25

Decide on social group

June 30

Analysis of first text

July 21

Analysis of second text

July 30

Analysis of third text

August 5

Analysis of fourth text

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Choosing a groupThe choice of social group is entirely up to you, but such an open choice can be daunting. Keeping the following in mind

You can’t choose your ethnicity, race or gender.

You can choose to belong to be a bikie, a police officer or a politician.

While being homeless is not a choice, there is the possibility of a change in circumstance.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Locating textsTexts can be relatively easy to find.

You might like to start with a film or television representation as these are usually the easiest to find.

Then you should locate print texts. These can be from short stories or extracts from novels. They can also be from any print genre.

Be careful to choose texts that are complex enough to offer opportunities for analysis.

Try to locate a text through which the group is representing itself.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Producing your analysisYour analysis should be modelled on the Viewing section of the exam.

That means you need to be concise, limiting yourself to 600 words while using language clearly to cover as much material as possible.

Approach each response as an approach to the question: Explain how your response to the social group has been influenced by the manipulation of language and generic conventions in the text.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Presenting Your FindingsWhen posting to your Wordpress blog, you should do the following:

Insert your text so that it is at the top of your blog post:

If it is filmic text, insert a clip from YouTube if you can find one. Otherwise, insert an image from the text. You can use VLC player to create snapshots if you can play it on your computer.

If it is a print text, use the quotations button at the top of your Wordpress posting to insert a segment of the text into your post (<600words)

Beneath the text but within your post, you should insert your analysis.

Your peers can then use the comment field to evaluate your response.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Your Task

Why?

Choosing a Group

Producing Your Analysis

Locating Texts

Presenting Your Findings

Peer Evaluation

Timeline

Peer EvaluationAs each deadline is met, you will be asked to peer evaluate another students’ analysis by commenting on their blog.

Your peer evaluation should be a paragraph that addresses the following:

Does the analysis address the meaning conveyed by the text?

Does the analysis specifically identify response that is encouraged by the text?

Does the analysis specifically analyse the use of language and generic conventions in discussing this representation?

Monday, 21 June 2010