Due for Wed 12/07 Turn in your final freedom / rights podcast onto Ms. Gallagher's schoology.
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Due for Tuesday Read this feature piece (use this link if there's any issues) on a senior prank that resulted in arrests and a hate crime charge. Blog Post: Was justice served in this instance? Did the life stage of the perpetrators - high school seniors - play too heavy a role in the levying of a sentence? How do you respond to the following quote: “I spray paint one racist thing and, suddenly, I become a racist? Just because I did it doesn’t mean I hate Jews, gay people or black people.”
Due for Thursday We'll read a piece together and then have time to work on your feature story, so be prepared to get work done. Due for Monday 12/05 Read one of the following articles on how to change someone's mind and then this piece questioning the impact of social media from the New Yorker: 1. Julie Beck for The Atlantic (2017) 2. Elizabeth Kolbert for the New Yorker (2017) Blog post: Do you believe the internet age - with its wide accessibility to a variety of perspectives and expertise - has made it easier or harder for individuals to overcome "motivated reasoning" and confirmation bias? What is something that you will never change your mind about, regardless of what facts or narratives that you may encounter that speak to the contrary? How should classrooms, campuses, or families try to ensure that an individual's trust is placed in the "expert perspectives", if at all? How do you respond to the following quote: "But a new working paper...found that almost all extremist content is either consumed by subscribers to the relevant channels—a sign of actual demand rather than manipulation or preference falsification—or encountered via links from external sites. It’s easy to see why we might prefer if this were not the case: algorithmic radicalization is presumably a simpler problem to solve than the fact that there are people who deliberately seek out vile content. 'These are the three stories—echo chambers, foreign influence campaigns, and radicalizing recommendation algorithms—but, when you look at the literature, they’ve all been overstated.'" Due for Tuesday, 12/06 Have your interviews done! This block will be a work block, so if you want to schedule an interview for this block, that makes sense, too. Due for Thursday, 12/08 Read either American Male Age 10 (1992) or American Male Age 17 (2019), both published in Esquire (both located on our Resources Page). Blog post: Think of your stereotypical adolescent or teenage male. What does he look like? What does he like to do? What is he interested in? How does he feel about his family, siblings, romance, teachers, and friends? What is important to him? How does your reading lean into, qualify, complicate, or refute these stereotypes? Does reading this piece in 2022, during an era in which our ideas about gender and power are shifting, feel helpful? Regressive? Inappropriate? Due for Monday, 12/12 Work on your draft of your feature story! Due for Wednesday 1. Read Vols 1-2 of Civil War 2. Answer prompt on Schoology by referencing to our text or the news / history: Does private/personal efficiency mean that public oversight is unnecessary or burdensome? Does constant government surveillance make you feel safer or more vulnerable? Is it justified to do something good if the public is against it? (150 words) 3. Add onto our gallery slides if you have not done so yet.*NOTE* as you read, you will be meeting lots of characters whose qualities and flaws might not be immediately apparent. Know -- it's probably not important to be well-versed in all of the characters, but do note these five characters:
IRON MAN: genius, hubris, has to overcome egotism to consider communal responsibility / morality MR FANTASTIC: genius, logic over emotion, only values numbers and what is "logical" SPIDERMAN: personal responsibility; relational responsibility THE PUNISHER: might makes right CAPTAIN AMERICA: values never change, regardless of situation or circumstance Due for Friday Read Volumes 3-4 of Civil War! 2. Schoology post: pick a page or panel and offer a 5 sentence visual analysis! What's going on: how does composition, color, and geometry impact how you understand that moment, scene, or narrative? Due for Monday, 11/21 Nothing! Mr. Lee is out. Due for Wednesday 11/23 1. Finish your leadership freewrite that we started in class! 2. Finish reading our comic book! Schoology post: How do you respond to the ending of Civil War? Do you feel a sense of victory? What side do you believe the authors align themselves with in the question of "personal freedom vs public safety"? (150 words) Due for Thurday, 11/17 Read through at least three of these articles and consider, if covering mass shooters / violence can inspire more, is it moral for the media to name the shooter? What ethical standards, guidelines, or considerations should a national publication follow when trying to cover mass violence? Does it change if it's local? Does it change if the act of violence was planned but averted? Do you believe that, in the internet age with vibrant cyber-communities, media publications still hold any sway over the minds of potentially violent individuals? Do you believe that media plays any real role in this at all?
Due for Tuesday 11/22 1. Send me an email with your responses to the feature story proposal! Read the NYT's piece titled "Bad Art Friend". Blog post: What lines of friendship, artistic integrity, or professional curtesy were transgressed upon by Dawn Dorland or Sonya Larson? Is it fair to take someone else's life as inspiration for your story without his/her/their consent? What if this individual is someone that you know personally? If you were friends with Dorland or Larson, would you think her behavior was warranted? In your opinion. which of these two individuals has higher moral footing? Due for Monday after Thanksgiving Read one of the following pieces on adolescent suicide intersecting with football: 1. New York Times 2. Bleacher Report. Blog post: At what age would you allow your child to play football, if ever? Did reading the piece affect your thinking about this at all? What might be missing from the conversation if this was all you read about adolescent football? Also, work on your Feature story! Due Tuesday 11:59 PM Submit your finished Misinformation Project onto Schoology.
Due for Monday, 11/14 1. Submit your response based on your discussion and topic in class: What restrictions feel like they are appropriate to place on a "free and open society?" When do the safety, security, and stability of a society outweigh individual freedoms? Can you think of a recent example in the news or in your life that tries to examine the tension between safety and freedom? 2. Read the following comic books (Vols 1-4 of Ultimate Comics All-New Spiderman). Link here! Pay special attention to how the page layouts and the art convey meaning. Due for Wednesday 1. Read Vol 1 of Civil War 2. Watch this clip from the Bachelorette. Schoology post: Critique what you just saw -How do you feel watching a break up that was nationally televised? Does this qualify "reality tv"? What is the point or draw of reality tv, vloggers, or content creators? What is the danger of seeing the world through the lines of "what would make good tv"? 3. Add onto our gallery slides if you have not done so yet. 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 from anywhere in the book that does a lot of "work" towards that end. Due for Monday, 11/14 Take a look at this document. Make your own copy of the graphic organizer and fill one out after researching your assigned case. |
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