Day 5

Bad Feminist Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Write Like Roxane Gay

    Kind of Activity:

    Individual Writing

    Objective:

    Emulate the author's format and structure.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9

    Structure:

    Students should individually choose one work of popular culture and write an analysis/response to it in the style of Roxane Gay's essays from "Bad Feminist". Challenge students to identify and try to mimic structural, tonal and analytical hallmarks of Gay's writing throughout this collection. In particular, note how Gay combines personal writing and media criticism in order to build arguments rooted in both lived experience and academic theory. Students may write...

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