Reminder: You will have an in-class essay on rhetorical analysis on Thursday, March 3rd.
Due for Monday 11:59 PM Turn in your opinion piece on the speaker series! Due for Tuesday Read through NPR's 2018 piece on parenting. Blogpost: Respond to the following quote from the Atlantic 2014 piece titled "The Overprotected Kid": It’s hard to absorb how much childhood norms have shifted in just one generation. Actions that would have been considered paranoid in the ’70s—walking third-graders to school, forbidding your kid to play ball in the street, going down the slide with your child in your lap—are now routine. In fact, they are the markers of good, responsible parenting...When you ask parents why they are more protective than their parents were, they might answer that the world is more dangerous than it was when they were growing up. But this isn’t true...Maybe the real question is, how did these fears come to have such a hold over us? And what have our children lost—and gained—as we’ve succumbed to them? Due for Monday, Mar 7th 1. Blogpost: What does it mean to be a good parent during a pandemic? How has technological or societal progress helped or hurt how parents tried to navigate these "unprecedented times"? What did your parents/guardians do over the past couple years, and did you agree with their approaches? 2. Opinion piece on cellphones!
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Don't forget your first opinion piece!
Due for Tuesday for everyone but those who will be presenting Complete this mindfulness exercise before you do your reading / other homeowrk / draw a bird. Then, read two of the following articles: 1. 2018 Guardian article titled "Lost Art of Concentration" 2. 2019 Times Opinion titled "Stop Letting Modern Distractions Steal your Attention" 3. 2015 Atlantic article titled "When Mindfulness Meets the Classroom" 4. 2020 Times Opinion titled "How to Get Focused" Blogpost: 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 play a role in achieving or detracting from your academic or creative goals? Did the mindfulness exercise do anything for you? Due for Thursday for everyone Pick a Superbowl Commercial from this year (there are many lists online to refresh your memory!) and write 150-200 words analyzing it - what is it trying to do? How is it doing it? Is it effective? What do you think this says about who we are as a society or clture that millions of dollars were spent putting this product/ad on your screen? Due for Feb 28th Submit your opinion piece on the speaker series onto Schoology Due for March 18th If you want to submit a piece for our hnzlmn, I need it before this date. Check Ms. Gallagher's class notebook! I don't know why I even do this website, honestly, after looking at it. It's dope!
Due for Tuesday Read two of the following articles: 1. Op-Ed from then candidate Glenn Youngkin on preserving "parent say" in school decisions (Fox News) 2. Schools pushing for book bans (NYT) 3. Kansas City Public Radio on conservative parents vs students (KCUR) 4. New Hampshire debates a bill that bans certain curriculum (Concord Monitor). Blog post: How much say should parents, tax payers, politicians, or residents have in school decisions? Is there a difference when considering the type of decisions (what to teach vs how to to teach it vs what events are allowed)? What decisions should be left up to the school board, the principal, teachers, or students? Is it different if a democratically elected state house bans teaching a book for the whole state vs a democratically elected school board bans teaching book for a local community vs an unelected superintendent unilaterally making a decision?
Due for Monday, the 14th 1. Submit your opinion piece on grades onto Schoology, 2. Read two of the following pieces 1. 2017 Atlantic piece titled "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" 2. 2018 NYT Op-ed titled "Taking away the Phones Won't Solve our Teens Problems" 3. 2015 Berkeley magazine piece titled "How Smartphones are Killing Conversation". 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 in 2022? How would you define your relationship to your phone, and would a "smartphone detox" feel beneficial to you in any way? |
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