Journal 17
1. Describe your favorite Disney princess and why. (Share with partners/class)
2. Record the meaning of agency:
Agency is the ability for a person, or agent, to act for herself or himself. A person who is not allowed to act for her/himself is lacking in agency, or is said to have been denied agency. Example sentence: In Greek society, women (real and fictional) often lacked agency compared to their male counterparts.
Did your chosen princes have a strong trait of agency?
3. Read the article linked below and record the pros/cons that the author sees in the movie.
4. Watch the new Beauty and the Beast on Netflix.
*One of you students will need to pull up your account on my desktop and find our movie.
5. Reflect on the movie. Is Bell a quality roll model for young girls in the way she represents the way a woman is valued in society? How about the way she sees herself?
(Continue this tomorrow.)
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