Yr 12 ResearchGetting started

Objectives

1. Exemplars

2. Choose topic

3. Brainstorm

4. Frame inquiry

5. HW / start research

Poems as inspiration for ideas

• Love.  The good, the bad and the ugly.

• Real issue of women getting trapped in a relationship

• Why do people resort to physical pain to numb emotional abuse

•  Domestic abuse

•  Does love make you crazy?

• Children caught in domestic violence relationships.

• Effects love has on the heart

• Effects love has on a person’s outlook on life

• What is the effect on teenagers who have parents / caregivers in abusive relationships.

• Comparison of abuse in NZ to other Western countries. 

• Gender equality• Women’s rights  - globally• How have the dynamics of

relationships changed• The representation of powerful

women in media.• Representation of women in

media over time• Children’s rights• Divorce• Arranged marriages• Symbolism of birds in literature.• Gender politics• Gender – nature or nurture?

• Feminism

• Womens’ rights

• Love through the ages

• Love in different cultures

• Marriage in different cultures

• Womens’ roles in relationships through time

• Women’s roles in society over time

• How people write about love

• Sexism

• The nature of power and control

• Sylvia Plath

• The nature of power /

• Confessional poetry• Is love different for men and

women?• Mental illness• Depression• Women’s sufferage• the 1950s• The 1500s• John Donne• Making it as a writer• The perception of poetry / writing• Why do people write?• Great things achieved through

writing• The power of poetry / love / …

Stages of love – poetry (ideas from all the poems)

• Gay marriage

• Love in literature

• Love in film

• Love in art

• Media’s portrayal of love / relationships

• Arranged marriage

• Impacts upon relationships

• What makes a good relationship

• Perceptions of love (men / women / ages / cultures / times)

The jailer

• The suffering artist

• Eating disorders

• Competition as the bread winner

• Life in jail

• Issue of self-medication – modern day problem

• Slavery

• Perfectionism – “right life”, “right job”…

Advice to a discarded Lover

• Generation Y – narcissists (“the world revolves around me”)

• Women who were ahead of their times

• Stalkers / stalking

• Paparazzi

• Polygamy

Pick a topic and brainstorm

• WHAT DO I KNOW / THINK OF?

• WHAT DO I WONDER?

• Womens’ roles in relationships• Servant

• domestic

• Mother

• Caring

• loving

-change through time?-cultural differences?-effect on marriage dynamic?

Frame your inquiry

• Make a “big call” or judgement statement around your topic

• Or

• Ask a big question

• EG. “the nature of women's roles in marriage in western society have changed over time” (Judgement) [“this is what I reckon”]

• To what extent has the role of the woman in marriage changed over time?(Question) [start with ‘to what extent / how / in what way’]