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The focus of this course is to expose students to a variety of media formats while helping to develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of new and traditional media, and how the media, in turn, construct our every day reality in ways that are social, cultural, psychological and political. Strategies of how to access, recognize, interpret, analyze, evaluate, utilize, and create all forms of media will also be explored. Students will research, discuss, speak and write while becoming critical thinkers and viewers of various forms of media. Requirements will include weekly readings and viewings along with production of a number of media-based projects.
This is a tentative schedule and can/will change without notice:
11/9: Native American PowerPoint, read "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" and discuss, start watching "Smoke Signals"
11/10: LONG BLOCK: Finish watching "Smoke Signals" and discuss
11/11: No School
11/12: Watch "Reel Bad Arabs"
11/13: Continue watching "Reel Bad Arabs" and discuss, Native American PowerPoint
11/16: No Class
11/17: African American PowerPoint
11/18: X-Day: Finish African American PowerPoint
11/19: Start watching "Ethnic Notions"
11/20: LONG BLOCK: Finish watching "Ethnic Notions" and discuss, watch "Color Adjustment" and discuss
11/23: "Bert Williams" or "Coon Chicken Inn" research day
11/24: "Bert Williams" or "Coon Chicken Inn" research day
11:25: Free work period
11:30: No Class
12/1: "Birth of a Nation" research day
12/2: Start watching "Birth of a Nation"
12/3: SUB: Continue watching "Birth of a Nation"
12/4: Finish watching "Birth of a Nation" and discuss
12/7: LONG BLOCK: Finish watching "Birth of a Nation" and discuss, start watching "Bamboozled"
12/8: Watch "Bamboozled"
12/9: Finish watching "Bamboozled" and discuss
12/10: No Class
12/11: Watch the Extras on "Bamboozled"
12/14: Finish watching extras on "Bamboozled"
12/15: Sub: work day
12/16: Gender Role PowerPoint and start "What a Girl Wants"
12/17: Finish "What a Girl Wants" and start "Tough Guise"
12/18: X-Day: Finish watching "Tough Guise" and discuss, start watching "Elf"
12/21: No Class
12/22: Continue watching "Elf"
12/23: Finish watching "Elf"
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