Senior Portfolio

Your Senior Portfolio is due Wednesday 5/23.
All together, the components of your Portfolio are worth 100 points as a Major Assessment for 4th Quarter.  Also, remember that your final exam will be a formal presentation of the work in your portfolio, so the better your portfolio, the stronger your presentation is likely to be. 

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Gender in Film Essay Assignment

Click the link below for details on your paper assignment for the Gender in Film unit.
Papers must be submitted as Google Documents before class on Tuesday 5/15.

Gender in Film Essay Assignment

Homework due 5/8

Gender Roles in Dystopian Film: Checking In

Now that we have watched two of our three films, you have a sense of how different stories in different films portray women and gender roles.  This weekend, take time to review Children of Men and Surrogates according to Feminist Critical Theory.  

Answer the following questions for each film (yes, that means you must do this twice):

Be specific in your responses and use specific examples from the films as much as possible.

1. How is the relationship between men and women portrayed?
2. What are the power relationships between men and women (or characters assuming male/female roles)?
3. How are male and female roles defined?
4. What constitutes masculinity and femininity? How do characters embody these traits?
5. Do characters take on traits from opposite genders? How so? How does this change others’ reactions to them?
6. What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy?
7. What does the work imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy?