Daily blog November 6th

Today in class we continued to discuss the differences and meaning of social and political lenses.  The beginning activity was to discuss with your group the actual meaning of the political and social lenses.  The definition that went on the board for a social lens is it always has to do with community values, which includes groups, organization, culture, race, religion, and many more.  The sole idea of the political lens is POWER.  Where the power is coming from, who has the power, why are they powerful all tie into the political lens.  The next group activity that the class was asked to complete was to discuss how the two lenses were seen in the everyday high school cafeteria.  Two social and political lenses that my group and I discussed were for social anyone can sit with their friends as they choose and a lot of people sit next to each other by organization or what they do outside of school.  For Political we discussed that Seniors are allowed to leave school for lunch and only seniors, and upper classmen are able to sit in the middle of the cafeteria and then the freshman are stuck sitting on not as nice lunch tables directly next to the bathrooms.  When the class came together every group provided their input on what their own group discussed.  This is my chart that I made from everyone’s input and what Mr. Rivers put on the board:

Social	Political
Tables as communities Older upperclassmen sit in the middle/ younger kids sit by bathroom Clubs/teams will sit together	Principles and teachers walk around can issue discipline Money in lunch accounts Seniors are allowed to leave Freshman have to sit in annex gym

The second half of class we watched the film Get Out where the class is supposed to take notes on the examples of the social and political lenses that are seen throughout the movie and plot.  A huge political lens seen throughout the movie so far is the topic of race.  Chris, the main character being a black male, has been brought to his girlfriend's family's house, who are all white and make Chris very uncomfortable with how the dad talks to Chris and makes him well aware that his girlfriend’s father is treating him differently because he is black.  That was all from today’s class and I hope my daily blog will be helpful.  Thank you for reading