The satirical article on NASA expenditure could link to exploring ideas about science exploration, and to amazing achievements by NASA and to the ways in which NASA has underacknowledged the brilliant people in its organisation.
Hidden Figures (film)
New York Times obituary for Katherine Johnson
Guardian obituary for Katherine Johnson
Hidden Figures (non-fiction book - on order for English dept)
A list of books on space exploration here
Short Stories on life on Mars
Topic: fashion, film and feminism
Some students looked at a satirical article on fashion and the Academy awards for acting. There is lots of potential to explore this topic across a range of texts, exploring literature on fashion, or a feminist critique of how acting awards press coverage focuses on a woman's body/clothes rather than her acting.
Why do 'male tales' tend to win awards?
Charlize Theron is being called ‘brave’ for gaining weight for a role – here’s why that’s a problem
Geena Davis on representations of women in film (from Academy Awards speech 2019)
Literature & feminism
A Room of Ones Own - the Virginia Woolf classic
The use of horror and satire to expose societal weaknesses
Also about scapegoats.
"A Modest Proposal" does this.
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery also does.
Science writing
This article links to some top quality science writing, including on insomnia, being a climate change refugee, PTSD and autism.
The use of horror and satire to expose societal weaknesses
Also about scapegoats.
"A Modest Proposal" does this.
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery also does.
Science writing
This article links to some top quality science writing, including on insomnia, being a climate change refugee, PTSD and autism.
Exploring inequality in Literature
This article considers the American writers who have written about poverty powerfully.
John Steinbeck has written The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men which are both classics (and short novels) exploring life in the US for poor people.
Frederick Siedel, Widening Income Inequality (poem)
On racism in America
James Baldwin, Letter from a Region in my Mind
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