Due for Tuesday Have your rough drafts of your observations ready!
Due for Wednesday Read any two of the following articles: 1. The Cut's Piece on Instagram Celebrity 2. NYT's Piece on Finstas 3. ESPN's piece on Madison Blog Post: Both of these articles were published when you were freshmen in high school - has much changed? What dynamics or understandings of social media have changed or remained constant? What human truths do these articles try to expound upon? What purposes or dangers does Instagram in particular meet? Due for Thursday Hand in your proposal in class and schedule your first interview/observation Due for Monday Read Bragg's Where Alabama Inmates Fade Into Old Age. 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 Brag’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?
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Due for Monday, 12/03 Listen to the following 2 podcasts: 1. Zipcode Destiny 2. The House on the Corner Pick three of the following questions to answer in about 200 words each; refer to the podcasts in some way in each of your responses:
Remember: Please pick a day - Monday or Tuesday - to do your in-class explication. The other day, you are to complete your on-campus observation. Come to class to check in if you are going off to observe on-campus, regardless, for attendance purposes.
Due for Tuesday, Nov 27 Come to class with notes and initial drafts of both your observations. Make sure to have notes on not only the details that you observed while you were sitting but also notes on your intentions with the piece - how are you going to create the impression that you are intending? Both Blocks
Due for Tuesday Create a "vision board" in which you visually represent what "your dream" is - what do you want from your life? What does a successful life look to you? - by using clips of newspapers, magazines, or items you find online/draw. OR Create a "vision board" for what you believe people mean when they talk about "the American Dream" Due for Monday Nothing! It's a homework free weekend. Due for Wednesday Bring into class your edited 1 paragraph explication. Remember to start off with a sentence along the idea of "Through DEVICE, Hersey ESTABLISHES THIS THING in this passage."
Due for Thursday complete your 4 paragraph paired explication on your assigned passage: Group 1 - P. 24 - 26 - “The lot of…wiping, daubing, winding.” Group 2 - P. 29 - 31 “Mr. Tanimoto, fearful for his family…they parted as casually - as bewildered - as they had met.” Group 3 - P. 45 - 46 “ Mr. Tanimoto found about…why didn’t they come to help these people?” Group 4 - P. 49 - 51 “Early that day…to the people in the park.” Group 5 - P 80 - 82 “ A new municipal government…the efforts of their conquerors to keep security on atomic fission.” Group 6 - P. 110 - 111 “Back in the hospital…he would henceforth bear: Father Makoto Takakura” Due for Monday Sit somewhere for 30 minutes and take as many notes as you can! Get ready to tell me the story of a place. C Block
Due for Friday Print out all parts of your Campaign Project and be ready to submit it for the beginning of class Due for Monday Watch a movie, any movie, and come with class with 10 notes on how or why we should or shouldn't consider this movie a feminist film F Block Due for Thursday Print out all parts of your Campaign Project and be ready to submit it for the beginning of class Due for Monday Watch a movie, any movie, and come with class with 10 notes on how or why we should or shouldn't consider this movie a feminist film Please note: I am planning to start our unit on Rick Bragg's Somebody Told Me on the 15th or 19th of Novemeber; we don't have enough copies in the English department to distribute them, so please find your own copy! Here is an Amazon link if you are interested in purchasing your own copy. If you need any help procuring a copy of our text, please let me know!
Due for Wednesday Read Chapter 3 of Hiroshima - pick out an important passage (at most a page!). Be prepared to share what about that passage feels important to you - what does a lot of work? Due for Thursday Read Chapter 4 Blog post: one common notion that we notice, time and again, is how the repeated exposure to something - even as appalling as the fallout of a nuclear strike - can quickly lose any immediate impact on an observer. Revisit a page on which we can see this happening and consider how this can be true for our lives today: what is something that, if we wrote down plainly and simply, people might find disturbing or appalling, but - due to repeated exposure - we have accepted/ become inured to it? Due for Tuesday Write up a one paragraph explication of any passage you find important in the book (outside the opening passage and the one you picked for Wednesday's class). C Block
Due for Tuesday 1. Read Book 22 2. Book 12 quiz! Due for Friday Read Book 23! You'll have a quiz on Books 21-23 Due for Tuesday, Nov 13 Remember to come to Goodwin Computer Lab! Also, you should probably work on your campaign assignment. F Block Due for Tuesday 1. Read Book 22 2. Book 12 quiz! Due for Thursday Read Book 23! You'll have a quiz on Books 21-23 Due for Tuesday, Nov 13 Remember to come to Goodwin Computer Lab! Also, you should probably work on your campaign assignment. |
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