My dears,
In the near future, should you decide to have a discussion on how gender roles/codes are being reinforced through the almighty television and how to analyze visual rhetoric, do not begin the discussion with "So, what's the difference between 'sex' and 'gender'?"... Why I did not expect sass, I don't know - but the quick response I got from monsieur "L" was this: "sex can also be a verb!"... *face-palm*
Other than that strange start to our conversation, the day went well. In the students' papers, many of them noted how they were excited to advance their vocabulary, so I hit them with a text written in a sociological discourse that many of them would likely use in the future (vocab included words such as ideology, masculinity, gender codes, social hegemony, patriarchal, and more) We discussed the vocabulary first - many of them said they had to read the text with a dictionary in hand, and a couple said they read it more than twice. "Great! That's an excellent practice!" (said an enthusiastic me.) Also, I got one of the quieter students to speak up! (May I just say "BOOYAH!!"?)
I was going to give them a HUGE reading on voice, but I cut it (Because it was HUGE) and gave them a smaller reading instead. We'll talk about voice/purpose/audience/etc., etc., in class Friday, and get to setting up Berger... This is going to be fun :)
ha ha!
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