Learning Goal: Students will be able to identify unhealthy body images in the media, and suggest changes that would convey positive messages about body image.
Activity #1: Understanding Explicit and Implicit
Stereotyping
- A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
Explicit Message
- This is 'exactly' what you see in the source provided; people, objects, actions and places. In other words, if you had to explain this source to a person not in the room or that could not see the source, how would you explain it?
Implicit Message
- This is what you infer from the source. What messages do you get from the source by 'reading between the lines?' What is the source really trying to portray? Are there any connections to the materials learned in class?
- A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
Explicit Message
- This is 'exactly' what you see in the source provided; people, objects, actions and places. In other words, if you had to explain this source to a person not in the room or that could not see the source, how would you explain it?
Implicit Message
- This is what you infer from the source. What messages do you get from the source by 'reading between the lines?' What is the source really trying to portray? Are there any connections to the materials learned in class?
Activity #2: Applying Explicit and Implicit in TV Ads
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Activity #3: Promoting Positive Body Images
Promoting and Enhancing the Development of a Positive Body Image
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ANCHOR ACTIVITY
Write a letter to a magazine publisher or television producer expressing your concerns about potentially damaging messages about body image conveyed by current advertisements or commercials. List your reasons for concern and use specific examples to illustrate your point. Give suggestion for changes that would promote the products effectively but would convey positive messages about body image.