Unit 3: Reflecting On

Society
 Reflecting on Society

● Take a minute to think about the community that you live in. What does it look like?
Sound like? What kinds of foods are eaten there?
● How do you think your community has influenced you?
 Social commentary

● Social Commentary is the act of commenting or highlighting an issue to the public in the
hopes of resolving the issue
● Social commentary often critiques one or more parts of society in the hopes of finding
a solution
● Write down some ways people comment on society?
○ One example is through art
 Social Issue Research
● What is a social issue that is important to you?
● Why is this social issue important to you?
● Find one resource that talks about this issue and insert the link and a quote
from the resource below:
 Complete this webquest

• Can people under age 21 make a real impact on society? For example, can they be instrumental
in changing laws or policies on issues they care about? How? What examples from the past or
present can you think of to support your opinion? List as many as you can.
• What qualities, skills, circumstances or perspectives are unique to young people — whether
today or in the past — and how might they help make their voices uniquely powerful?
 Watch these and complete the worksheet
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005761059/student-protests-neveragain
-parkland.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/podcasts/the-daily/florida-students-gun-contr
ol.html

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/on-the-ground-with-parkland-teens-as-the
y-plot-a-revolution.html
 Social Commentary Through music

● Listen to the songs and choose one to write about

○ What social issue is this song commenting on? What is the singer’s stance on the social
issue?
 Find a medium of social Commentary
Find your own medium of social Commentary ex) art, music, writing, video, ect.

● What is the topic of the social commentary?

● How does the creator express the social commentary through the chosen medium?
● How does the format make a difference in the Effect of the social commentary?
 Find another social commentary resource
● Find one resource that talks about this issue and insert the link and a quote
from the resource below:
 The ingredients short story
The Ingredients short story:
https://www.washoeschools.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=42056&dataid=55606&FileName=The%2
0Ingredients.pdf

The ingredients audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKe5a-QrqNk
 Questions

● Summarize the story:

● What was the theme?

● What point of view is this story told in?

● What is the falling action in the story?

 Questions

● 5. Read the following quote from the story:

"'And to top it all off...the Michael Jordan of all meats...bacon'" (reynolds 114).

Which literary technique is being used?

● Find one quote from the story and put it here:

● Why is this quote significant?

 Unit 3 Project: Social commentary Slides
● Create a google slides presentation on a social issue of your choice that is important to you

● Find three sources that support your topic Use a quote from each in your presentation (3 quotes total). You must also

use images.

● Must have information and explanations and no slide can have only images

● this must be at least 7 slides long

● You need a works cited at the end of the presentation for the 3 sources. Use citationmachine.net to make the works

cited.
○ Due on November 18th