Good afternoon!
Your main focus today is to get on with your 500 word investigation. You should be able to more or less finish this in the lesson. Your investigation needs to be posted via Turnitin by Monday 25th November but you can upload it as soon as you have finished it. This is the last lesson you will be working on it. Remember, this first piece is a draft...I am not expecting perfection (at this stage at least!)
Some of you have pretty much finished your investigation so there are a couple of things I would like you to do.
Firstly, just have a look at the animation based on the killing of Sophie Lancaster, murdered for being a Goth. Due to a technology malfunction last lesson, I didn't get chance to show you this and I thought it would help us reflect on society's sometimes very negative attitudes to sub-cultural groups or to those with alternative lifestyles.
http://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/
Secondly, I thought you could explore the rise of the 'selfie' as it has been in the news recently (the most recent addition to the OED online). Read the following articles, summarise them and comment on what is being communicated through 'selfies.' This could be useful for those thinking about their 'cybernarrative.'
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-blog/2013/nov/14/selfie-bieber-facebook-instagram-foolish
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/selfie-narcissism-oxford-dictionary-word
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/14/how-selfies-became-a-global-phenomenon
Work hard!
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