Feminist Web Quest

FEMINIST WEB QUEST

Respond on a separate sheet of paper - to be collected.

I. Go to: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/the-faqs/faq-roundup/
1. Scroll down to the questions. Look around – pick a question anywhere on the site and answer that you find fascinating. Which one did you pick and explain why.




2. How would you respond to this person’s answer?






3. What would you agree or disagree with?
What would you add?






II. Go to: http://www.lyricsdownload.com/dar-williams-when-i-was-a-boy-lyrics.html
4. This song is written and sung by a woman. What is her main message in the song?






IV. Check out some of these feminist websites. They are all different feminist websites. Pick one:
http://www.msmagazine.com/
http://www.bust.com/
http://www.bamboogirl.com/current/index.html
http://www.girlcomic.net/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.teenvoices.com/


5. Which ones do you like and why?







6. What things can you see and find on this website?





7. What do you wish was different, if anything?




8. You can answer this question or the next one. If you were to make a feminist magazine or “zine” what would you include in it? What would you leave out, if anything?









Or
8. Write up a scenario – it can be about anything. Something on the news, something that happened to you, something you observed, something you once read in a book, something you once studied in history class, something from your imagination (but it has to do with the real world). Describe what a feminist would say about it. Why is that a feminist perspective?

PREPARING FOR OUR SUPER NEWSPAPER PROJECT!!!

1. According to this website, what is a feature story (how would you summarize it in 3 sentences)?

http://www.powell.k12.ky.us/jfrancis/adaptations/feature_article_examples.htm




B. What are at least 3 things a feature story should include?





2. Look at the “ other examples of a feature story” at the bottom of the page. Pick one, click on it, explore, and discuss why it is a feature story.







3. What is a “broadside?” (The Declaration of Independence was originally a broadside!!!)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401800562.html








4. Pick ONE example of a ‘broadside’ below from the time of the Revolution.
A. Describe what it looks like and what message it is giving.






B. How is it different from a feature article?



http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.1/images/grasso_fig01b.jpg

http://www.corbisimages.com:80/images/IH134163.jpg?size=67&uid=92A89279-E588-4400-87BE-236BEA5C3926

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Henry_Nichols_broadside.jpg

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/images/geow.jpg


5. What is an ‘editorial’? At least three sentences.
http://www.newspapersineducation.ca/eng/level_7to9/lesson11/lesson11_eng.html#sample









6. Pick one of the samples on that website and describe why it is an editorial:









7. What is an ‘editorial cartoon’?

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/







8. What is the message in this editorial cartoon? Why do you think that is the message?
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a12000/3a12100/3a12149r.jpg