I am going to do a character analysis of the character, Miley Stewart/ Hannah Montana from the T.V. show Hannah Montana. The show aired March 24, 2006-January 16, 2011. I would say that the character is a quite average school student, especially since she is living a double life, so most of the time she is just catching up in school. When Miley is normal Miley, she has a normal socioeconomic status, being white, living in California, with her father as a famous country singer. One thing that affects Miley/Hannah is not having her mother because she is dead, and is only raised by her father. When she is Hannah, she is living the celebrity life, so that is her status during those times. But when she is not performing she is an average girl trying to get through middle/high school. At school Miley participates like an average student would occasionally cause trouble by doing silly things, see the video below. Miley comes up with a bone song to study for a topic she had been struggling with.
Miley Bone Dance . Miley even encounters bullying in high school, which is an unfortunate, yet typical high school thing most students deal with. Check out this clip. Miley is usually with her 2 best friends when at school, Oliver and Lilly. When Miley is Hannah, or simultaneously she has interests in writing song lyrics, singing, and performing. When she is just Miley, she hangs with Oliver and Lilly, hitting up the beach, going shopping, and encountering triumphs and trials of love and fun. If she was in my class I would try to use i-pads in my class with cool chemistry apps, that I've used before. These would include periodic table ones, atoms in motion, socrative, and many more. She has no special learning needs. I would say this student would be college ready.
I watched many of these as my daughter was growing up and she loved Hannah Montana. :) You probably would need flashy apps. to keep her engaged in learning, yet also incorporate music into learning with the iPad, maybe?
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