Fun with Titles
As a joke, I am planning a lesson on teaching students to create interesting titles. These are ones that keeperofthecats and I have come up with!
- The Answer is All Of The Above: Why Standardized Tests are a Joke
- When in Doubt, Choose C: How Students are Taught to Get Good Grades, Not to Think
- $100,000,000 to Throw a Pig Skin: the Worship of Professional Athletes
- Rated R for Violence: the 8 O’Clock News
- The Beating of His Heart: Why We Should Pay for Organ Donation.
- Murder On The Xbox Express: How Violent Video Games Did Not Lead to Columbine
- I Got That Reference: The Intertextuality of Online Communication
- And My Axe: Advertising Focus on Teenage Males
- It’s Facebook-Official: How Social Media Defines our Relationships, one Status at a Time
- It was OKAY: the Acceptance of ‘Meh’ as the New Norm
- If I Get Enough Likes: Social Media as a Foil for Developing Self Esteem
- Who Let the Dogs Out: Advertising for Women
- Putting in Niceness Until Sex Falls Out: The Roles of Men and Women in a Society of Changing Gender Expectations
- I Watched You While You Were Sleeping: How Men Create and Maintain Friendship
- This Girl is On Fire: HPV Awareness and STI Education in the United States
- Freddy's Back: The Importance of the Horror Genre in Reinforcing Social Mores
- Let Me Take a Selfie: External Validation in the World of Social Networking
- What Does the Fox Say: Educating Children in the Language of Nature
- Brush my Teeth with a Bottle of Jack: Socioeconomic Factors in Dental Disease Prevention
- Bloodrocuted on a Murdercopter: Dethklok as Social Commentary on the Iraq War
- Say Hello to my Little Friend: Transgender Issues in a Cisgendered World
- Doth Mother Know You Weareth Her Drapes: the Psychology Behind Uniforms
- How I Met Your Mother: the Difficulties Facing Children of Closed Adoptions
- His Brain is a Bag Full of Cats: the Stigma of Mental Illness in Men
- Do You Want To Build a Snowman?: Climate Change Predictions and the Rationing of Winter
- The Fall of the House of Escher: a Biography of the Man Behind the Art
- This Is So Going On LiveJournal: The Rise and Fall of Online Social Networks before Facebook
- Don’t Let the Truth Get In the Way of a Good Story: How Online Anonymity Allows Lies to Propagate Online
- A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys: the Illusion of Choice in Video Games
- Snape Kills Dumbledore: How government security measures are destroying the freedom they claim to protect
- Snape Kills Dumbledore: Spoilering as an act of passive aggression
- Star-Cross'd Starvation: Contrasting Themes in The Hunger Games and Romeo and Juliet
- I Came In Like a Wrecking Ball: the Unseen Pitfalls of “Urban Renewal"
- Jack the Bodice Ripper: The Romance Novel as Progressive Feminist Genre
- Sense and Sensuality: How Victorian Morality Shapes Modern Sexual Mores
- Wanna Take A Ride on Your Disco Stick: Dance as Performance Art in Elementary Schools
- Can’t Read My Poker Face: the Art of Nonverbal Communication
- This Place About To Blow: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the 21st Century
- We are Cancelling the Apocalypse: Can Progressive Peace Talks with Russia Prevent the Next Cold War?
- Wuthering Heights and Werewolves: Crossover Fiction as a New Genre in Horror-Comedy
- Snape Kisses Dumbledore: Fan-Fiction from the 1700s to the Modern Era
- Ophelia, You’re Breaking My Heart: the Strengths and Weaknesses of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroine
- Still A Better Love Story than Twilight: The Concept of Romance in America, 1980s to the present
- Bad Bromance: When to Cut Toxic Relationships Out of Your Life