Day 12 - Thursday, September 28

• Collect Essay 2
• Discuss the cultural function of TV
• Introduce Essay 3
• Discuss Context/Purpose/Audience
• Introduce and being to discuss "Dominant Cultural Myths"

• Discuss Katz, Kilbourne, Lewis
• What are the dominant myths they're discussing?
• What kinds of questions are they asking about TV and culture?
• Ways of thinking about culture and TV
• Discuss Dominant myths about gender.
• What are the dominant myths?
• Off the top of your head, what should a male be, what should a female be?
• Analyze the visual essays - Groups, 2 on function for culture, 2 on function for individual
• Start with obvious myths.
• Push beyond in terms of what other myths the images deal with and whether they are actually challenging or reinforcing
• Not interested in obvious messages.

• Daytime Talk chapter - what to look for in watching a daytime talk show
• Practice in class with clip from talk show
• Groups on the different aspects of the show
• What claims could be made based on your observations?

- Discuss Bennett and Gaines - Daytime Talk shows

• Show how you can "read" a single show in different ways.
• Ways of thinking about TV and culture and Viewer
• Perhaps the diagram in today's class?
• Focus/ context/ writing activity - the SO WHAT
• Think about audience

• Expand to cover other media outlets and types of shows
• King, Rapping, Miller
• Context/ Focus/ Writing Activity

• Last Reading
• Introduce development for Essay 3
• Work with their chosen TV shows
• What does your audience already know?
• What do you think they need to know?
• Who is your audience? And why?
• Not interested in obvious messages
• Prepare for conferences - outline and audience/purpose description?

- Conferences

• Work on development and organization for their essays
• Outlines of the past CMA's
• Using specifics from the show

- Workshop