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Tuesday, 31 Oct Warm Up (L 42) You should have grabbed a handout when you walked in the room. Please complete the handout as your warm up. Definitions for each term is located on the newest word wall by the filling cabinet.

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30 Oct Warm Up (L 38) Complete the Pre-assessment for your warm up today. When you finish, turn it into the 5 th period folder in the turn in box.

30 Oct (R 38) #1: Beauty Pageants Should Die Courtney E. Martin is the author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters" and "Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. " She is on Twitter. SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 Beauty pageants should go the way of the corset. They’re outdated and restrictive and perpetuate a damaging link between real world success and a woman’s capacity to cultivate a very specific, stereotypical definition of beauty. Let’s face it: the most beautiful women you’ve ever encountered would be total losers in a traditional pageant. That’s because authentic, messy, transcendent beauty can’t be scored. It isn’t tamed, plucked, planned, premeditated or rehearsed. And people like Donald Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant, are clearly not the purveyors of it. Real beauty is about resilience: girls and women who have been through something and come out the other side with an idiosyncratic scar or a hard-earned wrinkle, like the first lines of a powerful story. If there were a pageant where girls were asked, “When did you really get lost and how did you find your way back to yourself? ” — well, then I might go in for that. I’m not sure those kinds of questions, that kind of beauty, would be a great fit for lucrative corporate sponsorships. And this is one more reason that pageants should die. They are essentially moneymaking machines fueled by female insecurity and submission. I’ve heard the argument that they can be great sources of scholarship money for low-income women, but I’d rather live in a world where those same girls don’t have to learn how to walk in high heels to afford college. I’ve also heard the argument that the pageant experience builds confidence and community among the participants; so does "nerding out" on the debate team or flashing across a lacrosse field. (And you still get to wear a skirt, if that’s your thing. ) The bottom line is that beauty is an organic process, not a contest. Women deserve and know better.

30 Oct (R 38) #2: Feminists Can Wear Crowns Nancy Redd is a host at Huff. Post Live, The Huffington Post’s streaming network. She was crowned Miss Virginia 2003 and won swimsuit and placed in the top 10 at Miss America 2004. She is the author of "Body Drama" and "Diet Drama. " UPDATED SEPTEMBER 13, 2013, 12: 27 PM …My dear professor Diane Rosenfeld coached me over the telephone right before I appeared on "Good Morning America" to defend my participation in the Miss America pageant after graduating from Harvard with a degree in women’s studies. With each television and print interview, I was better able to articulate my desire to use “the power of the crown” to reach young women for whom the trickle down of parental politics meant that without even giving it a chance, feminism was a dirty word, a suspect philosophy lambasted at the dinner table, sometimes in the pulpit and even at school. Being affiliated with the Miss America brand gave me an incredible opportunity to offer youth a different perspective on life from a persona that they admired and respected. In the same way folks might buy Coca-Cola because it’s an official sponsor of American Idol, I believed that a large contingency of young women might be open to exploring feminism ‘cause Miss Virginia said so. … A month or so into my year as Miss Virginia, I was stopped by a teenage girl after a speech at a school in the heart of “red” Virginia. She hugged me and exclaimed, “I’m totally going to Harvard, and I’m majoring in women’s studies, and I’m gonna be a feminist, so that I can be Miss Virginia one day, too!" This young girl was far from the only person who told me that I gave them an entirely different way of seeing life, of having dreams and aspirations beyond limited expectations (both self-imposed and projected). But the best stories are the ones that I never hear, or if I do it is by sheer happenstance. Imagine my pleasant surprise seven years after giving up my crown to read in a newspaper that a girl who attended one of my Miss Virginia school auditorium speeches considered meeting me a turning point in her life. I had never known her. I probably gave her a quick hug and maybe an autograph when she was 13. I never saw or spoke to her again, but yet she told the press that she had an epiphany as I spoke and that she was “tired of being sad and upset” and “began to recognize the control people had over me. ” So what did Caressa Cameron decide to do? She competed for and earned the title of Miss America herself, going on to become a global ambassador in the fight against AIDS and an inspiration to others as I had been to her. This is the cycle perpetuated by the Miss America Organization. I can’t speak for other pageant systems, but I can say that, when I was 22, the Miss America Organization gave me a powerful, if unusual, platform to share my hopes for the future of young women and to be myself: an African-American, pro-choice, pry-my-mascara-out-of-my-cold-dead-hands, proud Southerner. And a feminist.