Nonfiction Unit: Essay, Documentary, & Visual Media

INTRODUCTION TO

A SMALL PLACE

Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation

1.Stay engaged2.Expect to experience

discomfort3.Speak your truth4.Expect and accept a lack

of closure

Ads from the Turn of the Century• In each of these ads, what “story” is being told about the people (visitors, visited) and the place? • How are different groups of people represented? •What is being implied about them through the representations? So what?

•Who is in control of the text? What is their purpose, and how does it affect– distort, enhance, color—the way we see ourselves and different groups of people?

Unit Essential Questions•How does a text construct cultural messages about a place, its people, and its visitors? So what?

•How has colonialism affected culture, perspective, and identity of both the colonized and the colonizers?

•What is the impact of injustice on both the oppressed and the oppressors in a society?

•How does globalization affect developing countries?

Unit Essential Vocabulary1. Colonialism 2. Globalization 3. Neo-colonialism/Neo-imperialism4. First world5. Developing world6. Jeremiad (literary term)7. Exploitation8. Impoverished9. Misappropriation10.Social justice & Social injustice

Unit Essential Vocabulary1. How do you think the terms relate to the travel

advertisements we discussed in class? Be specific.

2. How do you think globalization affects developed countries such as the United States? Benefits and costs?

3. How do you think globalization affects small and developing countries such as Jamaica or Haiti? Benefits and costs?

4. What are your questions about the terms?

To use the Post-Colonial “Lens,” ask yourself: • How are the colonized people portrayed? How is the process of colonization-- or the effects of colonization—portrayed?

•What characters does the text identify as “other”? How are these “others” portrayed? • How are characters of different cultures or race presented? Are they

stereotyped?

• Does the text reinforce or undermine the colonialist ideology—the idea that certain groups have a right to power over other groups—through its representation of colonization and colonized peoples?

•What does the text reveal about how cultural differences shape our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world in which we live?

“Read” these modern travel images through the Post-Colonial Lens…

Homework due Day 2 next:

ACTIVELY READ A SMALL PLACE, SECTION 2 (P.23-37) & REVIEW SECTION 1