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Junior Formal Writing Assignment

Does the media affect our ideas of gender roles in society?

This is a formal writing assignment, which means you must have an introduction paragraph, a body paragraph/paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. There is no page length requirement for this project. You may earn a Quality Work or an Access/Process Information competency for your work.

You are to take a position on whether the media affects our ideas of gender roles in society or not.

You are to reference an advertisement, an article, or a film clips that supports your position.

Find a few questions below that may help you further develop of your paper:

Do advertisements in magazines, on television, or on the internet have an impact on our ideas of gender roles in society? Do girls and boys get their ideas about how they should look and how they should behave from the media? Is gender role inherent in us as human animals?

You may want to reference the films we watched in class: Killing Us Softly by Jean Kilbourne and Tough Guise by Jackson Katz

Introduction Paragraph 30 points

Body Paragraph 30 Points

Conclusion Paragraph 30 Points

Handing your paper in on time (Before 6/14/13) 10 points

Your Points ______

Quality Work Rubric

Students will demonstrate the ability to produce quality work

(The quality work rubric can be incorporated in the evaluation of any major assignment.)

Distinguished / Proficient / Developing / Unacceptable
Expectations / Exceeded objectives, expectations, and requirements / Met objectives, expectations, and requirements / Met some but not all objectives, expectations and requirements / Did not meet objectives, expectations and requirements
Knowledge and skills / Superior application of knowledge and skills / Appropriate application of knowledge and skills / Limited application of knowledge and skills / Did not apply knowledge and skills
Understanding / Precise, in-depth understanding of material / Sufficient understanding with some depth and substance / Limited understanding of material / Inaccurate understanding of material
Quality / Work is of exceptional quality / Work is clear, well-organized, focused, neat, well-documented / Work has some deficiencies in quality / Work is of poor quality

Access/Process Information Rubric

Students will demonstrate the ability to access and process information responsibly, legally, and ethically across content areas and from a variety of sources and technologies.

(This rubric is intended to be used with a research-based assignment that includes Internet research.)

Distinguished / Proficient / Developing / Unacceptable
Questions and sources / Identified sophisticated questions and determined possible sources needed to answer those questions / Identified meaningful questions and determined possible sources needed to answer those questions / Identified basic questions and sources needed to answer those questions / Did not identify information needed
Accessing of information / Located and obtained with facility information from a wide variety of credible sources and technologies / Located and competently obtained information from several credible sources / Located and obtained minimal information from limited sources / Did not locate and obtain information from appropriate sources
Support / Identified and incorporated both essential and elaborative information / Identified and incorporated essential information / Identified and incorporated some essential information; may have included some extraneous material / Failed to identify and incorporate essential information
Ethical use of technology / Demonstrated responsible, legal and ethical use of resources and technology / Did not demonstrate responsible, legal, and ethical uses of resources and technology