Due for Wednesday 1. Complete your shot chart of the first 2:20 of the short film "Stutterer". 2. Send me an email with a name of someone you would like to work with or send me the name of someone you cannot work with. 3. A Block has a vocab quiz, and you will return your Of Mice and Men books.
Due for Thursday Hopefully complete your narrative arc and the script of your 3 minute silent film Due for Friday Hopefully finish your storyboard - be ready to film! B Block has a vocab quiz, and you will return your Of Mice and Men books. Due for Wednesday, Dec 6th Email me a link to your 3 minute silent film! Be ready to submit the other documents in class as well.
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Due for Tuesday Read "Where Alabama Inmates Fade into Old Age"( found on P. 23) and "A Thief Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In" (page 33) of Rick Bragg's Somebody told Me. Blog Post: What should we do with old prisoners? Do you have any sympathy for old prisoners? What determines this sympathy? Why do we withhold sympathy for youthful prisoners but lend it to older prisoners? Does Bragg’s depictions of these prisoners play with your sympathies at all? Does our societal understanding or picture of what “danger” looks like play into our sympathies?
Due for Wednesday Work day! Schedule your interviews or observation pieces for your profile. Due for Friday 1. Bring in your rough drafts of your observation pieces! 2. Read "Where a Child on the Stoop can Strike Fear" (P. 67-74), the following article from the Washington Post, and listen to this song as well! 3. Blog Post: What central question do both of these articles and song try to address? How would you reconcile the statistics and stories that discuss the nuances and dynamics of "black on black crime" or "a culture of criminality"? What does Bragg or Tupac try to do engage your sympathies; is it successful? Due for Monday Read the chapter titled "Bombs". Which article of these are the most striking? Break down this article into its movements and try to highlight a specific passage that you feel like does a lot of work towards what the article ends up establishing. Due for Tuesday - 1. Read NYT's "On Fake Instagram, A Chance to be Real" and ESPNw's feature on Madison Holleran. 2. Blog post - How would you describe the ways that teenagers use Instagram or social media in general? What purposes or needs does IG fulfill or meet? What are the pressures or unwritten rules that dictate how teens engage with this medium? What dangers or flaws are there? Have things changed since these articles have been posted?
Due for Monday Nothing! Enjoy your thanksgiving :) Due for Wednesday Write your Of Mice and Men essay! Submit it on Turn It In - print it out and bring it to class as well. If you want to use the weekend to finish off your essay, let me know in an email.
Due over Thanksgiving Break NOTHING! It's a homework free weekend. Due for Wednesday Finish reading our book! We will be having our reading quiz on chapters 4-6 on Wednesday.
Due for Monday Fill out debate preparation sheet! Due for Monday Share your profile proposal with me in your Google Docs! Make sure you have a Term II folder for me, too.
Due for Monday, Nov 27 Get your copy of Rick Bragg's Somebody Told Me. Also, keep in mind that we'll be moving into Susan Orlean's The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup immediately after! Due for Wednesday Read Chapter 3. Prepare for quiz on Chapters 1-3.
Due for Thursday 1. Read Chapter 4 2. Type up your paragraph detailing how Candy's dog establishes the theme of our novel and have it ready for submission. Worth 10 points! Due for Monday 1. Finish reading chapter 5. 2. Do some research and reading come up with two standards that would need to be satisfied in order for it to be morally justified to take the life of another person. Due for Tuesday 1. Complete your one paragraph explication. Bring this to class for submission. 2. Read Chapter 2!
Due for Wednesday 1. Read Chapter 3. 2. Blog Post: The Shame of Being Unhurt - 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. Does this idea register to us as foreign? In what ways do we see this notion, if at all, in our society or our school today? Due for Monday 1. Finish reading the book. 2. Pick out a passage that you think is important or does good work to drive home a point and write up a thesis as if you were writing an explication on this passage. |
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