Day 37: Debrief guest speaker and project research

Journal #4 - debrief guest speaker.

Poem, illustration, write, your choice of format...

1) What were the most interesting/powerful stories that were shared yesterday?  Why?  How did they make you feel?
2) How do you think we can "move forward?"  After listening to our guest speaker, how would you respond to someone who says that First Nations should "get over" what happened to them and move on?

Library: group project.
Format for presentation: Google Slides.
Please SHARE the slides with all group members and me.
Please type your name at the bottom of each slide that you create.
Each person is responsible for one character.

Presentations will take place on November 20/21.

Day 36: Guest speaker Elder Don

A powerful lesson by Elder Don.
Discussing first hand experiences living in the Residential School system.
What is a medicine wheel.
How does he "walk forward" and live his life.
Answering powerful student questions.

Day 35: Movie debrief. First Nations definition of an Elder. New project

Group debrief.

What is an Elder?  CLICK to watch
What is protocol; how to approach an Elder for help.  CLICK to read
Indigenous Corporate training.  Working with an Elder.  CLICK to read
Developing questions to ask our guest speaker on Monday.

Intro to new group assignment.

Day 33 & 34: Movie analysis

Day 32: Truth and Reconciliation

Should todays government be responsible for injustices of the past?  What are past injustices?

Truth and Reconciliation: CLICK to read
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action: CLICK to view
Imagine a Canada: CLICK to watch
Namwayut.  We are one.  Cultural genocide.  CLICK to watch
Canada's cultural genocide: CLICK to watch
Is the Canadian Government delivering on T&R? CLICK to watch

Questions for tomorrows movie analysis.

Day 31: movie analysis and racism

Finishing off our movie.

How long does it take someone to "get over"a traumatic event?
Recovery from trauma is different for everyone: CLICK to read
Recovering from trauma: CLICK to read
What is chronic traumatic stress (CTS)?  CLICK to read

Debate?  CLICK to read
Should we ban certain words?  Looking at To Kill a Mockingbird: CLICK to read
Rap and the use of the N-word: CLICK to read
Other words that we should not say/are politically incorrect - what are some words identified on the internet?

Day 29 & 30: Movie analysis

Movie analysis.
Please fill in the questions and make notes to yourself.

Day 17: Guest speakers and Orange T-shirt day

Guest speakers (speech-language pathologists) on Augmented Communication.
How is this a social justice issue?

How would you define communication?  Verbal/non-verbal.  What age group?  Giver/receiver of information.  How to communicate?

Communication Bill of Rights.  CLICK to view
Approximately 10% of the population have communication difficulty.
People with speech and language disabilities: autism, cognitive disability, traumatic brain injury, aphasia after a stroke, dementia, or other conditions

Disabilities can affect people in different ways:

• Speech: unclear or no speech
• Language: understanding/expression
• Combination: can also include reading and writing
• People may also have other physical, sensory, cognitive and other disabilities

What are barriers to communication?
Sometimes people are:  Afraid to talk to us.  Assume we can't hear.  Assume we don't understand.  Think we are drunk.

Augmentative and alternative communication device.  Looking at Chelsea Hagen  CLICK to read

Final two biography presentations.

Why orange shirt day?  CLICK to read
Debate over the purpose of a stat holiday:  CLICK to watch

Day 28:Media and movements

Social media.  What are hashtags?  Funny look from Jimmy Fallon
What is Black Lives Matter? CLICK to watch
Stephen Colbert segment on Black Lives Matter: CLICK to watch
Tone def marketing ad: CLICK to watch
Obama on Black and Blue lives: CLICK to watch

Transatlantic slave trade.

Movie questions for tomorrow.

Day 27: Roots of racism

International Day of the Girl Child on Friday, October 11th.
What is it and why do we need it?  CLICK to watch
Plan.international.  CLICK to read/watch
No cell phones used: CLICK to watch


Randy Moss's tie at the football hall of fame induction ceremony: CLICK to view
Who was Trayvon Martin?  CLICK to watch
Police shootings in the US.
Baltimore police planting evidence: CLICK to watch

Transatlantic slave trade.  Handout.  CLICK to watch

Day 26: Guest speaker: Marketing & Culture

Guest speakers from a local university.

What is marketing?  Meeting the needs & wants of consumers
Process: Marketing mix.  Product.  Price.  Place.  Promotion.

Marketing is responding to wants what we think people need.  Role of psychology in determining what someone wants.
Culture: the sum total of learned beliefs, values, and customs that direct the behaviour of a society's members.  Includes: language, knowledge, laws (ex. difference in guns laws between Canada & USA), religions, food customs (differs in each country), artifacts, music, art, technology, work patterns (# of work days/hours), products.

Marketing influences Culture; Culture informs Marketing.

4P's designed to attract a target market.
Culture is a collection of beliefs, values, attitudes that results in customs, norms, rules.

Opportunity for you to make a difference in marketing.  Doing it well.  Addressing social justice topics along the way, instead of perpetuating stereotypes.
A look at where has marketing gone wrong.

What are traits of culture?

• Culture has an ingrained influence on our behaviour
• Culture offers order, direction, and guidance to people
• Culture is dynamic
• Culture is learned
• Culture is SHARED

How is media created and shared: Family, School, Place of Worship, Media.

Under/Over representation problems in media: Gender, ethnicity & race, social class, age, weight, disability.

Look at things with a critical eye: do things need to depicted this way?  Is this hurtful/harmful?  Who benefits?

Under/over representation problems in marketing: advertising, product design, packaging design, commercials, movies & casting of actors, images, spokespeople, sports & team mascots, and more...

Gender in advertising:  How are young boys depicted?  Young girls?  Little boy is dressed scholarly.  Girl is the social butterfly.  How does this impact stereotypical norms?  Create a level playing field down the road?  

Ex. Walmart halloween costumes.  Why are skeleton costumes in the boys section?  Why is this a gendered item?  What do you find in the girls section - all princess outfits.

Gender in advertising.  Who is the ad's intended audience?  What is the sub-text of the ad?  How is masculinity defined?

Inspiring the Future.  View this website for how to make systemic change.  CLICK to view

Cindy Gallop (a leader in marketing advertisement).  "Women challenge the status quo because we are never IT."  "Don't be afraid to want to be VISIBLE."  "There's a huge amount of MONEY to be be made by taking WOMEN seriously."

Ethnicity/Race in Advertising:  How is ethnicity used to perpetuate a stereotype?  Ex. the "Frito Bandito" commercial.  How does this perpetuate stereotypes.  This was from the 1970's.  CLICK to watch

If we are always representing groups of people in certain negative ways then stereotypes will continue.    Ex. one brown corn pop is depicted as the janitor.

Hollywood (gate keepers of culture).  Underrepresentation of people of colour in speaking roles.  Ex. E.T. Mrs. Doubtfire.  JAWS.

Cultural appropriation.  Looking at team mascots (ex. Redskins, Indians).

Day 25: Racism

Analyzing yesterdays article.  Causes of racism.
Racism: learned?  Or inherited?

What is Epigenetics (effects on rats): CLICK to watch
What is Epigenetics: CLICK to watch

Racism in Hollywood (a look at pop culture).
WATCH Chris Rock's opening monologue at the 77th Academy Awards
Example of racism from Breakfast at Tiffany's (Asian stereotype): CLICK to watch
Example of racism from 42 (Jackie Robinson): CLICK to watch

Day 24: Racism continued

Current events: An inspirational look at two Nobel Prize winners

Discussion from yesterday.

Why racism exists according to one university professor:CLICK to read
Canadians are afraid to deal with racism: CLICK to read article
Dear white people, wake up: Canada is racist.  CLICK to read this article

Map of most/least racist countries: CLICK to read
#thisis2016.  Asian Americans respond to racism.  CLICK to watch
Powerful movie trailer: WATCH Crazy Rich Asians
The importance of this movie: CLICK to read this article
Power of "Yellow" at the end of the movie: CLICK to read

Find examples of racism in Hollywood.

Day 23: Racism intro

Guest speaker from the Salvation Army

Understanding our basic human rights: CLICK to view poster

Current events about a class worksheet that has caused some uproar in BC: CLICK to view

What is Avenue Q? CLICK to view website.  CLICK to see list of songs
Cheeky song from the play: CLICK to watch

Handout: Racism in the world

Day 22: In class movie assignment

In class movie assignment.

World maps due next Friday, October 19th.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend!

Day 20 & 21: Movie analysis

Take notes during the movie.

Hand in the sheet at the end of class.

Day 19: poverty reduction strategies in Canada

Group discussion:  How would you work to decrease poverty in our local neighbourhood?
CLICK to read
BC Poverty Reduction.  CLICK to access website
How would you improve conditions?  Is there an area that you would address first?

• Welfare
• Low wage
• Marginalized
• Housing
• Child care
• Education
• Health

Time to work on the map.  

Day 18: Safe injection sites and poverty reduction

Ice breaker: speed debate

Based on the 2015 statistics in the link, how do you calculate what economic class you are in?  Bottom 20%.  Highest 20%.  Middle class.  CLICK to read

What is Insite? CLICK to watch
Pros and Cons of safe injection sites: CLICK to read
Fentanyl crisis: Are safe injection sites the solution? CLICK to watch
Safe injection site opened in Surrey a year ago: CLICK to watch
Group work: Do you agree or disagree with safe injection sites?  Open more?  Close down?  Does it work?  What is the intended purpose?  What happens if we close?  What is the root cause of some problems that users have?  Can we just make drug problems go away?  Arrest users?

Handout with questions.  SFU report on homelessness.  CLICK to read