Further Oral Activity
Guidance Notes
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Rubric
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Reflection
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- 15% of your overall mark
- One F.O.A completed for Part 1
- One F.O.A completed for Part 2
- The mark of ONE F.O.A is to be submitted for moderation
- Each F.O.A must have a stimulus or a base text to which you are responding.
- Activities can be individual or interactive and should revolve around something in which YOU are interested.
- Must complete a ‘reflective statement’ commenting on performance and achievement of aims
- Time length for an individual activity: 15 minutes maximum (you will be cut off)
- Time length for a partnered activities: 20 minutes maximum (you will be cut off)
Q: What type of text do I need to use for my FOA?
A: Your FOA must be in response to a particular text, however, the type of text is subjective. For example, you might create your OWN text and discuss it with the class or you might use an article or song to which you will respond.
Q: What format should my FOA take?
A: Your presentation can take any format. Yes, you heard me - ANY format. In fact, you don't even need to present your FOA in front of the class. You could video tape your presentation or create an mp3 file for a radio show and submit the file for me to mark. These presentations can and should try to take a creative format.
Q: How do I ensure that I have been analytical enough with a creative task?
A: When in doubt, attach an analytical review of your task at the end of your presentation. For example, finish your slam poem and then provide a brief rationale and analysis of your work. What was your intention? What features did you use?
Q: Can I work with others?
A: Yes. Your FOA can be done individually, in partners, or in a small group.
Q: What is the time length?
A: Individually: No longer than 15 minutes. You or the recording will be shut off
In partners/groups: Everyone needs to speak for 6-8 minutes. You are only marked on what YOU say. Maximum time: 20 minutes
A: Your FOA must be in response to a particular text, however, the type of text is subjective. For example, you might create your OWN text and discuss it with the class or you might use an article or song to which you will respond.
Q: What format should my FOA take?
A: Your presentation can take any format. Yes, you heard me - ANY format. In fact, you don't even need to present your FOA in front of the class. You could video tape your presentation or create an mp3 file for a radio show and submit the file for me to mark. These presentations can and should try to take a creative format.
Q: How do I ensure that I have been analytical enough with a creative task?
A: When in doubt, attach an analytical review of your task at the end of your presentation. For example, finish your slam poem and then provide a brief rationale and analysis of your work. What was your intention? What features did you use?
Q: Can I work with others?
A: Yes. Your FOA can be done individually, in partners, or in a small group.
Q: What is the time length?
A: Individually: No longer than 15 minutes. You or the recording will be shut off
In partners/groups: Everyone needs to speak for 6-8 minutes. You are only marked on what YOU say. Maximum time: 20 minutes
Mass Communication Ideas
Journalism and Media Bias
Satirical News
Other topics:
Journalism and Media Bias
- Create a CNN iReport using journalism techniques. After the report, spend 3-5 minutes analyzing your report. What techniques did you use and why?
- Choose two articles from opposing newspapers and analyze them the bias techniques
- Show videos of two different news reports to the class and lead a structured discussion of the differing content, styles, and biases of the two programs, and the audience or target market for the two different reports. For this activity, you will need to write the questions and have your own answers ready so that you can challenge opinions and ask follow-up questions when needed.
- Create a Fox News-type report. Use techniques discussed in class as well as those presented in OutFoxed. After the report, spend 3-5 minutes analyzing your report. What techniques did you use and why?
- Produce a newspaper and present the product to the class. Discuss most important issues in relation to your production and the concerns of the course, and open up a discussion of concerns raised in relation to audience, bias, or intercultural relationships.
- Follow the steps from our class activity on media bias (marijuana, Malaysia, and the death penalty). Create an original fictional account of a story with plenty of details. Then, create two different news programs that sensationalize the story and are bias. After the report, spend a few minutes analyzing your report. What techniques did you use and why?
- Make an SNL-type parody of a social issue. Then create a news report that criticizes or examines the satire. See the clip below.
- Write a song parody that deals with a media related issue i.e. advertisement, media bias
Satirical News
- Create a satirical news report in the likeness of John Stewart or John Oliver. After the report, spend 3-5 minutes analyzing your report. What techniques did you use and why?
- Create a parody/satire of a social media platform. Show the video to the class and then spend 3-5 minutes analyzing the techniques used.
- Create a guerrilla/ambient advertising campaign somewhere in the school. Gather feedback about the effectiveness of the campaign and report your findings back to the class. For this to be a true FOA, you must base your campaign on an actual guerrilla campaign.
- Design a product and create an advertising campaign with a sales pitch to market it to a specific audience.
- Choose an existing product and design an entire advertising campaign that includes print and online advertisements and a television commercial. Present the campaign to the class (what did you do and why did you do it?). Survey class reactions to the campaign and use the results to start a discussion.
- Convert a traditional advertising campaign for an existing product into a viral form of advertising. You may create, for example, a YouTube video. In your presentation to the class, focus on reactions to the piece or to the challenges involved in this type of advertising.
- Analyze a variety of advertisements that objectify women.
- Analyze advertisements for smoking ads from the 80s and early 90s, such as Joe Camel and the Marlboro men. You could do a straight-forward analysis presentation or include a satirical ad campaign for marijuana or cocaine to show the ridiculousness of early smoking ads.
Other topics:
- Create and deliver a TED Talk that raises issues concerning the media. Possible topics include advertising/body image/self esteem/social media.
- Analyze some of the words that have been added to our social media vernacular recently (Tweet, feels, trending, viral). Create a dictionary of new words to add to our vernacular and present them to the class.
- Analyze the language used in online journalism or social media. Look at the sensationalism used in titles, such as in the Ellen Degeneres clip below.
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Gender & Taboo: Possible ideas
These are only suggestions and by no means comprehensive.
These are only suggestions and by no means comprehensive.
- Rewrite a fairy tale as a social critique on gender. Present the story as part of “a storytelling workshop" and then, as the author, provide a brief analysis of some of the features.
- Analyze a rap song and/or rap video for taboo language.
- Analyze a song with euphemisms.
- Interview _______ about a language topic. Example: Interview Chris Rock about the offensive content of a particular comedy show.
- Look at a clip of Shrek and analyze euphemisms
- A feminist analysis of a Disney movie
- Have a dialogue/conversation/argument with a male and female student about the perspectives in the poem “Men Talk” by L. Lochhead
- Construct a storyboard about a poem or song and analyze the visual language that you use to convey the meaning. How do certain pictures convey a certain construct about gender (or any topic)?
- Create a “televised” news report in response to a taboo issue in popular culture, such as an athlete using foul language or a politician offending a group of people (this must be a real issue).
- Create a "televised" news report to analyze Miley Cyrus' image from a feminist or psychoanalytical perspective (perhaps looking at her song "Wrecking Ball"
- A feminist reading of the song “Barbie Girl” by Aqua
- A slam poem exposing a gender or taboo issue