{"id":317,"date":"2016-10-26T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/?p=317"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T01:38:07","slug":"viewing-social-issues-through-a-critical-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2016\/10\/26\/viewing-social-issues-through-a-critical-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing Social Issues Through a Critical Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.picsearch.com\/is?zebtRVs6c8AifWmYZGBB-9lpOV9MbV_A6ul-BDWbJw4&amp;height=341\" \/>Today we began the DPS\/MAISA \u00a0argumentation unit: students will examine\u00a0the <em>influence and power of \u00a0visual\/social mediums<\/em>. We will be utilizing\u00a0the 2009 film &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.com\/static\/packages\/us\/thehelp\/index.php\">The Help<\/a>,&#8221; a\u00a0story of three women determined to call to attention the social injustices during the 1960s. The focus\/goal is to\u00a0analyze both \u00a0implicit &amp; explicit choices made to present the narrative and related issue(s) in question.<\/p>\n<p>Please note:\u00a0&#8220;Although film is generally created for entertainment it can carry important message(s ) and present powerful arguments on social issues.\u00a0 Consider this medium and how <strong>as viewers <\/strong>we can make <strong>inferences, recognize purpose, and identify their intent<\/strong> to influence people.&#8221; (Adapted from DPS\/ MAISA Unit)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we began the DPS\/MAISA \u00a0argumentation unit: students will examine\u00a0the influence and power of \u00a0visual\/social mediums. We will be utilizing\u00a0the 2009 film &#8220;The Help,&#8221; a\u00a0story&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2016\/10\/26\/viewing-social-issues-through-a-critical-lens\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Viewing Social Issues Through a Critical Lens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}