Worn Stories

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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ATTENDANCE

Advertising Campaigns

What is your message/product? 

What techniques/images/colours are you using and why?

How do you think that these will spread your message/sell your product?

NEW TOPIC

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ATTENDANCE

Clothing

Apparel (formal)

Attire (formal)

Clothes

Dress

Garments 

to clothe, to dress, to get dressed

Idioms

Roll up your sleeves

Below the belt

An ace up your sleeve

Caught with your pants down

Dressed to the nines/dressed to kill

Fine-tooth comb

Kid gloves

etc...

Birthday suit

Walk a mile in someone's shoes

Tighten your belt

Dirty laundry

Hot under the collar

Hat in hand

Off the cuff

Thinking cap

etc...

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ATTENDANCE

Which words for clothes and which clothing idioms do your remember?

What do identity & clothing
have to do with each other?

Worn Stories - Netflix

"In this funny, heartfelt and moving docuseries, real people unpack the fascinating and quirky stories around their most meaningful pieces of clothing"

Before we watch the trailer.

What does this mean? 

"act of rebellion, of defiance"

What do identity & clothing
have to do with each other?

Imagine this..

You are asked to appear in this docuseries

You have to talk about your own most meaningful* piece of clothing.

Which piece of clothing would it be and what can you say about it. 

Make a mindmap.

(*serious, important, or worthwhile)

N.B. This can be very personal. Let's all treat each other with respect and understanding.

NYT Love Letters

Tiny Love Stories began as a challenge from the editors of The New York Times’s popular Modern Love column: “What kind of love story can you share in two tweets, an Instagram caption or a Facebook post? Tell us a love story from your own life — happy or sad, capturing a moment or a lifetime — in no more than 100 words.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/learning/teaching-with-tiny-love-stories.html

TASK

Read two stories from 'Tiny Love Stories examples' (on classroom) and write down the things that strike you. 

You can choose which two you want to read. 

 

Your Task

Write a 'Tiny Love Story' about your most meaningful piece of clothing. 

Emulate (=imitate) the style of other tiny love stories and use the trailer as a source of inspiration as well. 

No more than 100 words. Submit on classroom.