Due for Monday, 02/06 Submit your project pitch!
Due for Wednesday, 02/08 Listen to three of the following podcasts:
For each podcast, answer the following questions: What did you listen to? 1. How does this podcast start? How does it hook the audience and provide details and context to get them listening beyond the first 90 seconds? 2. How does it orient the audience and guide them through a multiple-minute, multiple-step dive into a particular topic or question? 3. How does this podcast use sonic elements like montages, multi-tracking, music, interviews, etc. to help make this work? 4. How did the podcast personalize or localize their topic? 5. What is your response to the final product? What is your reaction to what you heard! Submit each of these onto Schoology. Due for Monday, 02/13 Submit your selections for our NPR Contest. Check your email for a link. Due for Wednesday 02/15 Submit your MOST ENGAGING SIXTY SECONDS project onto schoology
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Due for Feb 02 if you are not leading class Complete 3 of the following readings:
Blog Post 1: Complete this mindfulness exercise before you do your reading / other homework / draw a bird. Then, consider: Think more specifically about your ability to focus, pay attention, and complete tasks that rely on your ability to concentrate on something intellectual or creative: what attitude, emotion, or posture do you usually enter into these sort of tasks with? How do you usually set yourself up for success or failure when trying to learn something, complete something, or read something? What provides your most frequent source of distraction when trying to focus? How does your phone or personal technology play a role in achieving or detracting from your academic or creative goals? Did the mindfulness exercise do anything for you? Blog Post 2: Blog Post: In your opinion and experience, what role do smartphones play in the mental, emotional, and social health of teenagers? Do you believe they exacerbate or ameliorate the stressors or anxieties that constitute being a teenager today? How would you define your relationship to your phone, and would a "smartphone detox" feel beneficial to you in any way? Due for Thursday 01/19 Read the following articles: NYT covering the controversy at Hamline University (there is an image of the art in question located in a slideshow of this article) and local coverage that also includes a response by the university president as well as local coverage on how Muslim groups are responding. Blog post: How do you respond to the events at hand? Do you agree that this is an instance of Islamophobia that should disqualify an individual from being a professor of art history, that Dr. Lopez Prater gave a warning "precisely because she knew such images were offensive to many Muslims" and chose to continue with being offensive? Do you think this was an instance of academic freedom being punished by administration? How should efforts to be more inclusive, sensitive, and equitable be considered in conjunction with historical or cultural items that can be offensive? Does academia have the right to be offensive?
Due for Thursday 01/26 for everyone who is not leading the class Read the following articles: 1. Vox - Shitty Media Men (2018) 2. The Cut - ¿Has Visto la Lista? (2021) 3. NYT - The Case that Killed #MeToo in Sweden (2022) Blog Post 1: Is “it was different back then” or "it's a different culture" a strong or reasonable excuse for men who have been accused of sexual harassment taking place decades ago? If something like inappropriate touching or inappropriate comments felt commonplace and “appropriate” 30 years ago, should we condemn those who committed those acts today? Can you think of any instance or example of something that you would consider excusable because "it was different back then?" Does it matter if the behavior takes place in the workplace or in general society? Blog Post 2: How should we understand and implement the ideals of "innocent until proven guilty" and "due process" when it comes to matters of sexual assault or harassment? What compulsion or considerations do companies, institutions, or society/public opinion have regarding individuals accused of something difficult to prove or disprove? If an individual is fired for allegations of sexual harassment, should he/she/they be hired back if these allegations cannot be proven? Can someone be denied of a job or of a promotion or of a position for allegations that are near-impossible to prove? Sophomore Speech Timeline
Due Friday 01/06 Have your research completed - Submit at least 5 sources onto Schoology - worth 15 points Due Mon 01/09 Submit your outline onto Schoology - worth 15 points Due Wed 01/18 Prepare your first 500 words - worth 15 points Due Fri 01/20 Submit your final draft onto Schoology - worth 30 points Due Mon 01/30 Be prepared to start performing your speech! Important Notes
Due for Thursday Nothing! Mr Lee was out.
Due for Monday, 01/09 Read the following articles about how adults and children are trying to navigate cultivating skills: 1. Today - In defense of participation trophies (2015) 2. NYT - Snowplow Parents (2019). Blog post: What connection, if any, do you see between the impulse to award children awards for participating in youth sports and limiting opportunities for them fail in life? Did you receive participation trophies growing up, and do you think this had any impact on how you developed? Is heavy involvement in raising children common, healthy, and understandable or setting them up for failure? Due for Thursday, 01/12 Read the following article from the Atlantic (it's long-ish!): What Happened to American Childhood (2020). Blog post: What part of this article struck you as remarkable, agreeable, incorrect, or extreme? Do you buy that American childhood is different today than previous generations? Why do you think that so many adolescent Americans are more anxious, more fragile than previously reported? What is the dynamic between anxious parenting and anxious children, in your mind? Is the anxiety experienced by our young people a reflection of societal circumstance, parenting style, economic factors, personal and lifestyle choices, or something else? How should we get better at "prepar[ing] our kids for difficult times, [letting] them fail at things now, and [allowing] them to encounter obstacles and talk candidly about worrisome topics"? Due for Tuesday, 01/17 Link us to an opinions piece, a think piece, a column, or an editorial that works for you; write 100 words on why it works. Then, link us to an opinions piece, a think piece, a column, or an editorial that doesn't work for you; write 150 words on why it doesn't work! |
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