Group A Audience Question Check In
Who is the audience?
High School students
Why did you pick this audience?
The teenage year are a time of exploring one’s identity. Many high school students often identify themselves into one catagory, thus putting themselves into box. They believed everyone with a certain label is the same. As a result, they often see each other through their label and not the person as a actual person with their own unique story. These sterotypes often led to bullying and violence.
What is your relationship with this audience?
We were all once a high school students and witness the sterotypes and cliques first hand. Maybe some of us were even part of a cliques or were identify by other as a certain sterotypes.
Where is the audience located?
High school students in NYC.
How will you reach this audience?
Many of us have friends that are still high school students, and high school students are often gathered nearby their school when school is over.
How will you know if your audience has heard you?
Our lessons plan will lean towards a discussion style teaching method. Thus, both we and the audience have to actively listen and response to each other.
In what ways will the audience be most inclined to engaged with the lesson?
Many people like to share their experience. The lesson will be leaning towards a discussion, both the audience and us will be enagaged in a discussion instead simply we talking to them.
Ok So this is a good start. I think very soon you need to get more specific about which high school students. Really within the next 7-10 days you want to know exactly who you are going to work with.
Secondly. I think it might be good if you are careful about your assumptions of high school students. One thing I find with teaching is that the moment you assume folks know or don’t know something, they surprise you, and the moment you assume they do or don’t believe certain things, they will not only surprise you but maybe even resist you. Also if you presume that all teenagers will have social cliques it makes the project seem a little moot. If that’s just the way it is, what is your discussion hoping to do?
I think you could enter the conversation by saying we experienced these things in the not too distant past, and so we wanted to engage high school students now to teach them about how we see these texts and our experience working together and get them to start a dialogue about how they view social classes. You could also find an example of a high school now that definitely has these issues, and you can bring it and the novels together and then initiate a discussion with your teenage students about what they think about this school (that is not theirs).