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The Power of Story

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Story telling - Myths, misfits & masks: Sana Amanat at TEDxTeen 2014

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Edpuzzle video lesson. Make any video your lesson. Take a video and crop it, add your voice or embed questions at any point.

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Yellow- Using the note taking sheets, discuss the following question with the group:
Although this story was predominately about identity, in what ways can you claim it was also about stereotyping, religion, racism, and/or immigration? Provide evidence from the TED talk.

Go to www.google.com/classroom and type you response on the stream titled "Station 2, TED talk, Identity"

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Kids ditch princess costumes in favor of superheroes this Halloween

What kind of costume will you see when you open the door to trick-or-treaters this Halloween? You might be thinking of an old-fashioned ghost. But get with the program! That is because today's kids love character-driven costumes instead.

This hasn't changed for years. But something has. As CNN's Hailey Middlebrook reports, this year's costume trends for kids have reversed trend. Superheroes have surpassed princesses. This is the first time this has happened in more than 10 years.

Middlebrook writes that despite years of princess frenzy, the royal trend has changed. According to numbers released by the National Retail Federation, kids are putting down their crowns. Instead, more plan to wear action-oriented superhero outfits. The federation notes that more than three million children will dress as a superhero. This is compared to 2.9 million who will dress as a princess. (Animal outfits are still popular, too. They will garner about 2.5 million costume wearers.)

It's the first time in 11 years that princesses have not held the costume crown. Princesses just aren't as popular in 2016.

"Not only have the Halloween options for kids gotten more diverse," she writes, "they've gotten more empowering."

Kids are actually going back to the holiday's roots. Costumes and masks have been part of Halloween celebrations for several hundred years. Some celebrants of Samhain, the Gaelic harvest festival that eventually merged with All Souls' Day to become Halloween, blackened their faces during the celebrations. Eleventh-century choirboys dressed up during All Hallows Mass. Once the holiday was imported to the United States, kids dressed as members of the opposite sex. They did it while roving the streets. There, they often were ready to throw flour in people's faces.

Only in the 1930s did the first mass-produced Halloween costumes come on the market. The mass production of toys that were marketed at different genders made single-gender costumes all but inevitable by the 21st century.

But don't think that superheroes are only for kids. The NRF's top 10 list for adults is topped by Batman characters. They include Harley Quinn and the Joker. That ranking is reflected by Google Frightgeist. It's a new tool. It lets you see which Halloween costumes are trending on Google.

But whether you dress as a superhero or a princess, Halloween is a night for fright and fantasy.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why did Google create Freightgeist?

Write your answers in the comments section below

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Kids ditch princess costumes in favor of superheroes this Halloween

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Kids ditch princess costumes in favor of superheroes this Halloween What kind of costume will you see when you open the door to trick-or-treaters this Halloween? You might be thinking of an old-fashioned ghost. But get with the program! That is because today's kids love character-driven costumes instead.

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Blue- Read introduction
Introduction
Here you will learn about an important social issue through a Tedxteen talk. What is a TED Talk?
Ted talks are not for profit and are devoted to spreading the word.

Watch the following Tedxteen talk on Identity. The video will periodically stop and ask you to discuss some questions. Remember to use accountable talk moves.

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Red- Push play

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Fair? , misfits & masks: Sana Amanat at TEDxTeen 2014entifyen

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Edpuzzle video lesson. Make any video your lesson. Take a video and crop it, add your voice or embed questions at any point.

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Green - You are the moderator for this Station. You are in charging of using the checklist to make sure all team members are accountable.