Directions: Watch the slide show and answer questions based on what you have seen. (Ideally you have not actually watched Mad Men before.)

SAMPLEThe Complex Tidal Pools Of Characters from:

By Broad Phylum: The Mad Men cast

Tidal Pool #1: The People Who Work at Sterling Cooper Advertising

Joan Harris, Head Secretary

Salvatore Romano, Art Director

Roger Sterling,Senior Partner

Don Draper,Creative Director &Junior Partner

Bertram Cooper,Senior Partner

Peggy Olson, copywriterPete Campbell,

Accounts Manager

Aaron Stanton, Accounts Manager

Paul Kinsey, Copywriter

Harry Crane,Head of TV

Tidal Pool #2: The People Who Control Sterling Cooper Advertising

Don Draper

Roger Sterling

Bertram Cooper

Tidal Pool #3: The Artsy People in Sterling Cooper Advertising

Don Draper

Peggy Olson

Salvatore Romano

Paul Kinsey

Tidal Pool #4: The Business People of Sterling Cooper

Roger Sterling

Peter Campbell

Don Draper

Harry Crane and Aaron Stanton

Tidal Pool #4:The Staff

Joan Harris

Tidal Pool #5:Women in the Office

Peggy Olson and Joan Harris

Tidal Pool #6Woman Out-side the Office

Betty Draper, Housewife and Mother

Tidal Pool #7: Figurehead in the Office

Tidal Pool #8:Closeted Gay Man in the Office

Tidal Pool #9: Wanna-Be Writers in the Office

Bertram Cooper Salvatore Romano

Paul Kinsey

AaronStanton

Tidal Pool #9:Married People Tidal Pool #10:

Married People Who Are Unfaithful

Tidal Poll #11: People Who Once Had a Romantic Entanglement

Pete Sal

Joan Roger

Harry

Betty

Betty DonDon

Roger Pete

Roger and Joan

PeteandPeggy

Paul and JoanSal

Tidal Pool #11:People Who Have Children

Tidal Pool #12:People Who AreRaising or Did Raise Children

Don and Betty Draper

Roger Sterling(with ex-wife Mona)Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson

Tidal Pool #13: People Born Before 1940 on Mad Men

Directions: Tell whether the following are true or false based on the slides.

1. Mad Men takes place in current times.2. Women played a significant role in advertising

during the Mad Men period.3. The characters in Mad Men are, for the most

part, quite wholesome.4. The life of a housewife is not the main focus of

the series.Based on the slides, who do you think the main character of the series is?

Homework:Find a television show, movie, or book that you like that contains many characters with overlapping relationships and diverse subgroups. Create five Tidal Pool Groups with various characters from the work you’ve chosen. Include a visual component. You may use images, drawings, etc. Then write three questions based on your presentation that your audience should be able to answer strictly on the Tidal Poll Groups you’ve presented.