Project Materials Group C
Group C’s project materials will include a sheet to aid that we physically change ourselves to gain acceptance from others, whether we are conscious of it our not, and that it is important to accept ourselves. This sheet will include Kerry’s comic she submitted for the graphic novel assignment, panels of American Born Chinese that illustrate how Jin changes his hair, and bullet points outlining the history of perms from Julie’s presentation on perms.
Okay so this idea is good. Some things:
1. I think it might be good to focus specifically on hair. It will help give your teaching objective more focus. Right now it is lofty and seems a little more like a belief that though believable would be hard for you to prove with a flyer and in passing. Focusing on hair means that your teaching objective could literally be to get participants thinking about the culture, politics of hair and how styling it, changing it, getting rid of it, and trying to get it are often tied to desires for social and political belonging.
2.You need to flush your handout sheet with more information. I think the materials from the class are good and coherent, but to make a pamphlet or flyer, you need to add to it. So you might think about contemporary moments of changing one’s hair to conform to ideas of beauty, fashion, normative culture AND maybe even moments when people resist it. There are many ways to include more: you could have a list of controversial hair styles in the last 20 years. You could have random hair facts like facts about how many people got a bob or a Rihanna influenced asymmetrical in 2015 mixed with school dress and hygiene rules about maintenance of hair. You could also include celebrations of hair as artistic and cultural expression (think Willow Smith to #Lemonade).
3) Especially when your teaching mode is short and reliant on your pitch and the materials you send with your audience, you really need to make sure your objective is clear and easily communicated in the pitch, and that your materials are strong, thorough, and really do the work of teaching and communicating the ideas you want to get across.