Bad Feminist Lesson Plan

Representation Class Discussion

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Discuss the components of good representation in media.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.8

Structure:

Roxane Gay writes a good deal about the power and pitfalls of representation of marginalized groups in media. Facilitate a class discussion on the subject of representation drawing upon the following scaffolding questions.

- What makes good representation? Is it political or personal - or both?

- What are some crucial representation problems Gay identifies? (For example: including a marginalized person as a way of 'checking a box', which leads...