Hello! Here's what we're up today:
English 12
- Checking in
- Contextualizing where we are in the course: The Calendar.
- Touching base on your Independent Novel Project: How's your book? Do you have a plan for whom to work with?
- Returning books.
- Discussion: When it comes to media, what are you curious about?
- Quick definitions:
- Persuasive techniques are tools that are intentionally used to convince someone.
- Cognitive biases are ways our brains distort information we take in.
- Logical fallacies are mistakes that are (often) unintentionally used in an argument.
- A note on the tools we're about to discuss: they can be used to reinforce oppressive forces, or resist them.
- Consider this passage from The Dawn of Everything (a great book!)
- What other stories do we tell ourselves that are based on persuasive techniques, cognitive biases, and logical fallacies?
- Introducing Project 6
- Time to consider what you might want to pursue.
- Introducing Assignment 4
- Time to consider what you might want to pursue.
- Persuasive techniques in advertisement
- Example of an advertisement
- Activity: sell something
- Tomorrow, we'll cover cognitive biases (note there is overlap between all these concepts), and also establish groups and topics for A4.
New Media 10
- Checking in
- Recapping yesterday
- Student presentation on 1.1
- Teacher notes
- Oxymorons
- How to portray Romeo?
- Activity: How should Romeo and Benvolio behave?
- Film version: What do you think of the portrayal of Romeo and Juliet?
- For Friday, read 1.2 and 1.3
- Independent Novel Project
- What book did you choose?
- Who will you work with?
- Registering books
- Tomorrow will be a period to get ahead. We'll check in on the Independent Novel, the visual assignment, the video assignment, and watch part of the film.
English 9
- Checking in
- Recapping yesterday
- Looking at the schedule
- The Hate U Give film
- Registering books
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