Sunday, February 27, 2011

Independent Study 2 Approval

1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your second independent study.
Working with the girl scout, they have asked me to actually teach lessons to the girls, to help them earn a badge.
2) How does your independent study 2 relate to your EQ?
My independent component will help me understand what helps the girls feel confident about there selve. With this I can find what activity makes them  feel better about them selves.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Final Draft

20 Minute Presentation: Final Draft


20 Minute Presentation: Final Draft
Introduction.
  • 59% of 5th thur 12th grade girls in one survey were dissatisfied with their body shape.
  • 20 – 40% of girls begin dieting at age 10.
  • By 15, girls are twice as likely to become depressed than boys.
  • Among 5th through12th graders, 47% said they wanted to lose weight because of magazine pictures.
Start off with a question : 2 minutes
How many of you have self esteem issues? Why? What made its get that way? Is it because of what you see in media, what you hear everyday, or what you tell your self? My name is Atiana Price. My senior topic is about self esteem in teenage girls.
My essential question is: What is the most successful way to help a teenage girl feel confident about her body?
What do you think my answers could be?: 1 min
Explain my answers:
1. Watch What You Watch
Be aware that every thing out there is photoshopped. Everything from movies, televison show and magazines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U.
Talk about video and what they thinking of it: 2 minutes
2. Start/Create a peer group with your friends.
Start a group with you friends, or join a group. But maybe just talk about what it is that you saw in the media that upset you or you didn't appreciate.

Activity. Give everyone magazines including Ms. Ortega and ask them to find pictures they think are photo shopped. Or ask them out of how many pictures in the magaine, how many girls are photo shopped.
Closing. Re-state essential question and answers. Collect magazines and say thank

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Independent Study 1

Content:
1. Since we talked at my advisory metting, about 5,6 weeks ago. I spent every day instead of reading, reading a magazine for a hour.

2. Posted Evidence (Example: For a college class, take a photo of your transcript and upload it).


3. Complete the LIA:
Literal

(a) I Atiana Price affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Explanation of what you completed.
I have gotten magazines since 2008. I spent an hour looking at every magazine. I noticed what was in the magazine, the articles in the magazine. With the magazines, I took out ads that caught my eye and wrote what i thought about the ads. With some of the ad's I noticed how the ad's have changed since 2008 till now. I noticed the difference between the girls on the cover and how many photo shopped covers they have. I also watched my an episode of America's Next Top Model. I analyzed the pictures that the girls took at the end of each challenge and tried to figure out if they corrected any of the photos. 

Interpretive
I spent an hour or more picking apart Seventeen magazine. I noticed what they did different what they did the same, and i wrote a half page summary about it. I read all the articles in the magazine and thought about what it was that pointed out a specific group. For example, an article talked about sex. Seventeen magazine is not just for seventeen year olds. that means the younger girls think its okay and are reading more then they should be.

Applied
This shows me was exactly girls see and what may make them feel bad about there bodies. It shows why girls would have self esteem problems with all the photo shopped work that are in magazines.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

20 Minute Presentation: Rough Draft

20 Minute Presentation: Rough Draft
Introduction.
Hi my name is Atiana Price. My senior topic is self esteem in teenage girls. My essential question is -
What is the most successful way to help a girl feel confident about her self esteem.
1. Watch What You Watch
2. Start/Create a peer group with your friends.
VideoHow the media makes the girls in magazines perfect. Two videos showing how it is that they photo shop girls.

And

Talk about the video. Ask them how they feel about it and have a class discussion about the videos. Explain what and how I feel about photo shop and what I think should be changed about it.
Activity. Give everyone magazines including Ms. Ortega and ask them to find pictures they think are photo shopped. Or ask them out of how many pictures in the magaine, how many girls are photo shopped.
Closing.Re-state essential question and answers. Collect magazines and say thank you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U