Work on your Misinformation Project! Remember to submit your script on Schoology by the end of the classtime on Wednesday. Final product is due on Tuesday, Nov 8th 11:59pm.
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Turn in Response Paper 2 by Oct 31 11:59 pm if you want me to count it for Term 1.
Turn in Response Paper 2 by Nov 7th 11:59 pm if you want me to count it for Term 2. Remember to turn in a college essay by the end of Term 1 - Nov 4. Due for Tuesday NOTHING Mr. Lee isn't here on Monday for a wedding. Due for Thursday Read Chapter 3 of Hiroshima. Be prepared to to consider the following question in writing in class: Review the war ethics document as well as this article from Politico about Facebook's oversight committee. Would you consider morality to be more cultural than objective, and how might that impact your thinking about how different people should engage with each other in peace or violence? How should a government, multinational corporation, or private individual try to weigh or prioritize conflicting or clashing value systems? How would you settle the question of whether or not to host content regarding Black Pete or #KillAllMen on a social media platform that is widely used and accessible by anyone in the world? Due for Monday, Nov 7th Work on your Response Paper 2! Due on 11:59 pm. Due for Tuesday Nov 8th Read Chapter 4 of Hiroshima. Come to class with an answer prepared to the question "how do you feel about the moral question surrounding the atomic weapon following this reporting?" or "which individual do you feel the strongest about?" as well as an excerpt that does a lot of "work" towards that end. Turn in Response Paper 2 by Oct 31 11:59 pm if you want me to count it for Term 1.
Turn in Response Paper 2 by Nov 7th 11:59 pm if you want me to count it for Term 2. Remember to turn in a college essay by the end of Term 1 - Nov 4. Due for Thursday Read Chapter 1 of Hiroshima. You'll be given time in class to complete the following, so think about how we can consider this in our reading as well: Is there a group of people or a movement that is being othered by society today - either by the law, culture or rhetoric? Is it ever appropriate to marginalize or other an individual or a community (how should we as individuals or as a society engage with extremism)? To what extent do you believe, that in today's internet age where communities based on identities can develop globally, no one can truly be othered? What would "good work" towards tying to humanize or be inclusive of those who are being marginalized or othered look like? Try to link us to an example to prove your points about those being othered or humanized if you can! Due for Monday, 31st Work on Response Paper 2! Due for Tuesday, Nov 1st Read Chapter 2 of Hiroshima. You'll be given time in class to complete the following, so think about how we can consider this in conjunction to this article from Vox about mental health TikTok: On pages 29-30, we follow the perspective of Mr. Tanimoto as he races into the city, unharmed. The narration puts forth that, "the wounded limped past the screams, and Mr. Tanimoto ran past them. As a Christian he was filled with compassion for those who were trapped, and as a Japanese he was overwhelmed by the shame of being unhurt, and he prayed as he ran, 'God help them and take them out of the fire.'" Revisit these pages and consider whether or not the "shame of being unhurt" has any echoes or reflections in our society and context today, especially in the age of finstas and oversharing on TikTok. Does this idea register to us as foreign or familiar? In what ways do we see this notion, if at all, in our society or our school today? Can "normalizing stigma" go too far into the realm of encouraging or spreading unwanted behavior? Due for Wednesday, 26th Read chapters 23-25 of The Memory Police
Due For Friday, 28th Finish The Memory Police Due for Monday, 10/31 Work on your project! Mr. Lee will be at a wedding. Due for Wednesday, 11/02 1. Maybe listen to one of these podcasts to consider how "misinformation" can operate beyond the examples on social media we discussed earlier in class? 1. NYT - Birds Aren't Real 2. Ep 5 of American Panic about the Satanic Panic. Warning: this episode contains graphic language and disturbing content. But really: work on your Misinformation Project!! Due sometime before Term 1 ends: Submit your college essay onto Schoology. I won't offer feedback unless we have a conversation.
Due for Tuesday Read two the following articles: 1. Vox covering a 2015 controversy on Yale about costumes 2. 2021 NYT Column on white men writing black opera 3. The Guardian reporting on recent controversy on a baking show 4. ABC News on controversy over naming a hospital. Blog Post: What are the guidelines, rules, or standards to follow when considering if something is "appropriately inspired by" another culture? When does cross-cultural exchange cross a line? Are there examples that you can think of where cross-cultural exchange feels appropriate and not like appropriation? How do you respond to the circumstances laid out in your reading? Can KPop artists rap over Kendrick's DNA beat while sporting dreadlocks? Can the best Filipino restaurant feature a white chef? Due for Thursday Read the selected excerpts from "Thank God for the Atom Bomb". Copy and paste 5 moments from the essay: write a few sentences on 1. What it's trying to accomplish 2. How it's trying to accomplish it onto Schoology. NOTE TO SELF IF I CHECK THIS IN 2023 AND NOT THE LESSON DOCUMENTS - SHOULD HAVE THEM LISTEN TO HIDDEN BRAIN ON WHEN DOES A THOUGHT BECOME A CRIME INSTEAD; SAVE THIS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT WEEK. CHECK OUT DOCUMENT CALLED WHEN DOES A THOUGHT BECOME A CRIME Due for Mon, 10/24 Nothing! Work on your college stuff. Due for Mon 11:59 PM Submit your Full Life Interview Project onto Schoology
Due for Wednesday Read Chapters 17-19 of The Memory Police Due for Friday Read Chapters 20-22 of The Memory Police Due for Monday, 24th NOTHING Mr. Lee is out. Due for Wednesday, 26th Read Chapters 23-25 of The Memory Police Due for Wednesday Read through Chapter 10
Due for Friday Read through Chapter 13 Due for Monday, 10/17 1. Read through Chapter 16. 2. Submit your interview project onto Schoology by 11:59 PM Due for Friday 11:59 pm Turn in your Taste Paper on Schoology
Due for Monday, 10/17 Blog post: Should individuals who are not personally or immediately affected by a decision/situation be allowed to have a voice in the process of deciding? To what extent? Can or should Asian Americans take leadership roles in the Black Lives Matter movement; should the public get to set nurse-patient ratios for private hospitals; who should get to determine if an exhibition or a painting is appropriate for a museum? At what point might there be a limit to involvement or alliance, if at all? Due for Tuesday, 10/18 Read two the following articles: 1. Vox covering a 2015 controversy on Yale about costumes 2. 2021 NYT Column on white men writing black opera 3. The Guardian reporting on recent controversy on a baking show 4. ABC News on controversy over naming a hospital. Blog Post: What are the guidelines, rules, or standards to follow when considering if something is "appropriately inspired by" another culture? When does cross-cultural exchange cross a line? Are there examples that you can think of where cross-cultural exchange feels appropriate and not like appropriation? How do you respond to the circumstances laid out in your reading? Can KPop artists rap over Kendrick's DNA beat while sporting dreadlocks? Can the best Filipino restaurant feature a white chef? Due sometime before Term 1 ends: Submit your college essay onto Schoology. I won't offer feedback unless we have a conversation. Due for Friday Read through Chapter 5 of The Memory Police
Due for Wednesday, 10/12 Read through Chapter 10 of The Memory Police Due for Tuesday Read a couple of pieces from NYT's Modern Love column, Vox's Best Spent column, or the Economist's 1843 Magazine. Blog Post: Drop a link to a piece that you thought did a good job / a bad job at personal writing and discuss why. What worked in this essay for you? Didn't work for you? Which sentences stood out as being perfectly crafted or poorly crafted? What sort of work must have gone into this piece? How did it fail or falter?
Due for Thursday Come to class prepared for a work day! Due for Tuesday, the 11th Read the following piece from The New Republic on Patagonia's owner giving the company away to fight climate change. Blog post: how do you understand Patagonia's / Yvon Chouinard's role in the fight against the climate crisis? What would be the proper way for a company, a billionaire, or a country to ensure our future on Earth? How much should we care that it could be argued that Patagonia had a leading role in polluting the climate in the sphere of fashion? How do you respond to the following sentiment: The message this kind of reporting sends is that billionaires could save us from ourselves if only more of them had the Patagonia spirit. Yet given the raw data on billionaires’ emissions, it’s clear that far more people need to be saved from billionaires than are saved by them. And the society as a whole needs to be saved from the grip their mythology has on our cultural narratives. |
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