Feb 11, 2022

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

English 12

• Checking in
• Recapping yesterday
• Literary terms
• Allegory
• Satire
• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Field trip! Let's go visit the Totem pole in the atrium.
• Discussion: What do you think about the Totem being there?
• Description of the MOA (and a heads up about next week's art)
• "Totem" by Thomas King
• Background and author details
• Reaction
• Explore for literary terms, and connect to P1
• If this is a satire, what is it mocking?
• If this is an allegory, what is the metaphor?
• What do you make of the emphasis on onomatopoeia?
• What examples of understatement and symbolism could you find?
• What questions or thoughts did you add?
• Freewrite
• Heads up: I'll likely be rearranging the desks before Monday

New Media 10

• Checking in
• Recapping yesterday 
• Touching base on P1: How're we feeling about it?
• Literary terms
• Allegory
• Tone
  
• Discussion
• Background on The Matrix
• The Wachowskis
• Plato's cave
• Alice in Wonderland
• Religious undertones - Christianity and Buddhism
• Transgender themes
• Red pill / blue pill in modern context
• First half of The Matrix
• Small heads up on violence and some creepy elements
• Heads up: I'll likely be rearranging the desks before Monday

English 9

• Checking in
• Recapping yesterday (my apologies, I rushed us to start the TED talk. We'll come back to it next week.)
• Touching base on P1 - how to tweak the statement, and how the first two texts relate
• Literary terms
• Allegory
• Tone
• Discussion
• Background on The Truman Show
• Reality TV
• Role of cameras
• Plato's cave
• Themes of religion
• The Observer Effect
• First half of The Truman Show
• Heads up: I'll likely be rearranging the desks before Monday