Student Guidelines

Your first blog is to be completed on Serena from Gossip Girl as a guideline to how you should approach this task.

Pick a scene from one of the episodes we have watched in class to base your answers on for the following questions:

1. Who is Serena? (provide a brief description of Serena as established up until the scene you will discuss. Include adjectives to describe her look, attitude, personality etc)

Serena van Der Woodsen is the main character in Gossip Girl and is portrayed as.....

2. How does the director show this in your chosen scene?

(Refer to dialogue, costume/dress, conflict etc)

The director has styled her to be dressed in.....

The director has Serena talking about/to.....

3. Discuss in detail how Serena's representation in this scene is typical of a teenage girl in the media.

Teenage girls are most commonly represented as....

4. What material is omitted regularly from episodes of Gossip Girl?

Intelligence and talent are two traits of a teenage girl that are not acknowledged as much as they should be in Gossip Girl. This is because....

(think here about the $$$$$$$ making media)

5. Does Serena represent a typical teenager in the world today then? Why/why not? (Relate it to the world today with specific examples)

5. What message therefore, does this representation of Serena send to real teenage girls in our world today? (Think here about values created by the representation).

Representations like that of Serena in Gossip Girl tells teenagers today that....

You need to support all your conclusions with as much evidence from the text as possible.

Develop your argument as much as possible by providing as much detail as you can, always answer the WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE and WHY.

Build an opinion and strengthen it with each answer and each blog.

You should be able to complete this within the period, anything you do not finish you must complete for homework.

Any questions, ask me. Have fun blogging.