Week Six Assignment

This assignment is due October 9th
The blog assignments are part of your required work for the course. Not completing them, affects your grade.

Remember to comment on at least four other students' blogs and that your comments are relevant to the article.



When doing the assignment remember to use the strategies we have been discussing. Locating signal words will help you in answering the questions and in writing your paragraph.

1. In your text read pages 560-562, Media Image of Women.



2. Answer the following questions .



3. What is the main idea of the article?



4. What reason is given in the reading to explain the images of women in the media?
Remember to look for details to support your statement. Again, signal words give you the clues to answer the question.


5. Why did the researchers generate a computer model of Barbie-doll proportions?



6. Write a paragraph describing the way YOU think women should be portrayed in the media.