Critical Literacy

Critical Literacy

11/02
Bias: Opinion that favours one side over the other.

Source: A place or a person you get your information.

Credible: Able to be believed.

Authority: Power over someone or something.

Reliable: Trustworthy.

Perspective: Point of view/Opinion on something.

Agenda: What you want/get out of something.

Manipulate: Influence a person or situation.

12/02
Text: Anything that gives you information

Construction: The building or making of something

Representation: The state of being represented by someone

Stereotype: A fixed image or set of characteristics that consider people consider to  represent a

particular type of person or thing

Bias: Opinion that favours one side over the other.

Inclusion: the act of making it part of the other thing

Exclusion: preventing someone to be involved in something

Masculine: Typical men rather than women

Feminine: relating to women or or considered to be typical of women

21/02

1. In English we watched a musical video where the women were stereo typed as they were the gender to do all of the inside chores and the cooking and the men were portrayed as the gender that did all the outside hands on work. The video clip was set in the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouLiQ7KhmYU

2. We watched another clip this one was i'm so much better from legally blonde in this clip the women was saying she doesn't need men to be in her life and she can do anything she wants without a boy also because she is blonde she proves that blonds ar'nt dumb she breaks through the stereo typed this video is set in the 2000s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br50XFvrsp8

Questions.

1.How are adults constructed in these texts?
Females should be second to males in both texts and in the second texts they stereotyped blonds and that they are meant to dumb.

2. What type of social reality does this text portray?
People dont want to things outside of their stereotypes eg. men doing the hands on outside work and women stay in the house cooking and cleaning.

3. How does this text construct a version of reality?
Draws from history, finds examples of props and setting that actually existed in that timeline.

4. What different interpretations of the texts are possible?
Yes- we can view the shift from men being positive to being put down, we can view the shift in society and cultural values- there is more to life then house, dog and kids.