Speak Week Three

1. Speak Week Three

2. Agenda • Review Fire Evac Plan • 20 minutes of reading • Submit your Second Marking Period Illustration and Reading Response/ Annotation to your folder. • Lunchtime Catch Up!!! • How could our Friday session connect back to Melinda? • Assumptions and Privilege • Gender Ideals • Maya Angelou: Allusions

3. Binary: Having two parts Our world is binary in many ways.

4. Plurality: being plural The world is/should be seen as a plurality

5. In order to protect our own humanity we must question what is to be ‘normal’ and why someone would want to put us in a box- WHY IS THERE A BOX IN THE FIRST PLACE??? Oftentimes this can be frustrating (Do you want to go to Paris?), but it is also the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves and for those around us that we would like to help or learn more about. Victim Rat Slut Loser

6. This leads to Absolutes and Moulds Making assumptions can lead to building up this idea of normal that nobody questions. If your not going to question it then who will? Does it mean that you can fix everything or have all the right answers? Usually NO, but you don’t have to. This is what we mean by Critical Thinking

7. Pay your water bill and get the mail.

8. Research and Type up your assignment at home.

9. Take a shower after practice! What am I Assuming?

10. Losing Your Virginity is a Special Moment

11. Instead of paying for a taxi just walk home.

12. Buy this because… What are they assuming?

13. Go to class and make friends

14. Plurality: being plural The world is/should be seen as a plurality

15. Social Ideals of Male and Female (Merryweather High)

16. Melinda and Normality… Inside the human: • What labels would she give herself? • How would she identify herself? • How would she describe herself? • What does she want? Outside the Human: • How do other people label her? • What do other people say about her? • What would Melinda’s reputation be? • How would they describe her?

17. Lack of Power over her Surroundings- the closet is the only place where she can retreat.

18. Marking period two “The first thing to go is the mirror. It is screwed to the wall,so I cover it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian gave me. She said Ms. Angelou is one of the greatest American writers. The poster was coming down because the school board banned one of her books. She must be a great writer if the school board is afraid of her. …I figure Maya would like it if I read in here, so I bring a few books from home. Mostly I watch the scary movies playing on the inside of my eyelids. It is getting harder to talk.” (50)

19. Allusion- Maya Angelou • Allusion is a literary term that referring to anytime a writer references a real thing outside of the text. • Name dropping/ referencing • When Melinda finds a discarded poster of Maya Angelou in the school and chooses to put it up in her janitor’s closet this is an allusion to Maya Angelou. • She could have just said A poster, but there is a reason why it is Maya Angelou.

20. Maya Angelou • April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 • Was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer • Her best known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • It is a memoir of the first 17 years of her life. • She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

21. Maya and Melinda • Angelou’s sometimes-absentee mother, Vivian Baxter, had a steel will and several careers of her own. She was an inadvertent player in an early, formative trauma in Angelou’s life. • When Angelou was 8 and briefly living with Baxter in St. Louis, her mother’s boyfriend raped Angelou. The man was arrested, convicted and released; soon after, he was found beaten to death. • Believing she had caused the killing because she had told of the rape, Angelou refused to speak for several years; only her beloved older brother, Bailey, could coax her to talk.

22. Agenda • 20 minute reading/ Catch Up • Caged Bird- underlining, poetic device, theme • Questions on the back • Class Discussion • Choose an Allusion of your own- Find another real person who is mentioned (usually in Art class) • Incorporate them into your next illustration. Use your post-its • Quiz Time!!!

23. Society’s view of the black woman is such a threat to her well-being that she will die daily unless she determines how she sees herself. http://www.visionaryproject.org/angeloumaya/#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYG9zIUDF0

24. Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Is it Natural? No!

25. Theme • Despite being confined or oppressed your voice has power and is the key to your own freedom- even if it only mental or emotional, rather than physical.

26. Quiz TimeLoose Leaf10 questions No changing answersOnly ONE right answer

27. Depression Health= Mental and physical

29. Grief - Endure a loss where for an extended period of time you are very sad, but your ability to function in society slowing increases over time and you are able to cope somehow. • Sadness • Passing feeling • Comes and Goes • Coping Skills to handle sadness • “an off day” • Spectrum of human emotion. (mood) • Depression • Impacts everyday life • Potential Suicidal Feelings/ Apathy for life • Not a component of mood • Physical Symptoms • Persistent/ Consistent • May not be able to identify it. • Significant difference in your outlook.

30. What is Depression? • Some factors believed to contribute to depression include: • Family history – depression can be something that runs in families. • An imbalance of chemicals in the brain. • Difficult life events. • Traumatic events in childhood such as the following can influence a person’s mental outlook throughout their life: • abuse • neglect • divorce • family violence • Gender – women are more likely to develop depression than men. • Low income, living alone or divorce can bring out symptoms of depression. • Substance Usesuch as alcohol use, is often associated with depression.

31. Losing Interest and Withdrawing….

32. The Numbers • Suicide accounts for 24% of all deaths among 15-24 year olds and 16% among 25-44 year olds. • Approximately 8% of adults will experience major depression at some time in their lives. • Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in both men and women from adolescence to middle age. • Depression is a common mental disorder. Globally, more than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression. ‘I’ve been feeling down, kind of depressed, but it’s nothing I can put my finger on.’ Alex was about to enter his fourth year at King's and was immersed in the local music scene, working as a summer student at Halifax Pop Explosion. He had gone on a Europe trip earlier that summer, and had just returned from a fishing trip in New Brunswick with his family.

33. Often coupled with extreme anxiety…Depression is terrifying and debilitating.

35. Characterizing Melinda • Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. • This can be done directly: “My room belongs to an alien. It is a postcard of who I was in fifth grade.” (15) • Or it can be done indirectly: When she gives herself a report card that we have to interpret and keep track of. • 1st Report Card: 2nd Report Card: • Plays Nice- B Attitude- D • Lunch- D Lunch- C • Clothes- C Clothes- C- • Social Studies- C Social Studies- D • Biology- B Biology- B • English- C English- C- • Spanish- C Spanish- C- • Algebra- C+ Algebra- C- • Gym- C+ Gym- C- • Art- A Art- A

36. Melinda and Depression… • Check In Assignment: Provide a quote from the text which adheres to each box. • Only use quotes from Marking Period 2 and 3

37. Group Work • Once you have your quotes chosen from amongst your group then you will have 4 different jobs to split between you:

38. Agenda • Who is Picasso? • Making the Tree Better- Marking Period Three • Work Period

39. Picasso • 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 • Spanish painter, poet and playwright • First word was pencil • He was a terrible student and would always get into fights. • Cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colours. • Took apart objects and people. (Does Melinda feel whole?) • Paper fragments – often wallpaper or portions of newspaper pages – were pasted into compositions, marking the first use of collage in fine art. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZMlfm1Ln0

40. Making the Trees better! • Before you begin on your own independent work today you must do one task first. • Look through Marking Period 3 and Post It the following things: • 1. Favorite Moments in the marking period or ones that stood out to you. • 2. Any chapter that mentions her Art class • 3. Moments of high drama • 4. Turning point/ change Death of the Wombat- Lunch Doom (included) Conjugate This- Clash of the Titans (included) Miss- Hall of Mirrors (included) Germination - A Night to Remember What can you incorporate into your tree?

41. Objectification To present or regard as an object: "Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally" (Barry Lopez). To transform a complex, living thing into an object (simplifying them and stripping them of individuality. Results in a lack of Empathy

42. When we diminish ourselves we are more likely to diminish others and not recognize value and potential.

44. The teachers and school do this too… • By perceiving the students as a herd of animals what does this take away from the students? Individuality Freedom Personality Voice/ Expression

45. Who is it? Why does he have no name? How could he have done this to Melinda?