Agenda:

• eddy story #2 – keeping working on your drafts – do not publish until you get the go ahead to do so. Make sure you have artwork for your article: let me know what it is BEFORE you upload to the Media Library.
• Thinglink: Project is due next Friday, June 25 – use the class time wisely. Make sure you follow instructions for:
  • Privacy settings in Thinglink – Unlisted
  • posting to your blog correctly: brief intro for context, the TAG, Category – English 11
  • copying and pasting the published blog post link to the rubric and uploading to TEAMs.

Agenda:

• read ‘How to break out of your confirmation bias’ article – link #5 on the Media’s role in increased polarization document
• find the quotes from the article  that thematically connect with issues that we have been discussing – that the WAY we consume online content can contribute to either apathy or increased polarization OR as the quote from Hubert Humphrey states, moving away from freedom/ Democracy/ important issues being “hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.” To do the latter, we have to hear each other’s stories and perspectives.
• final resources from the Media’s role document
• Discuss the new project (all documents are in the New Media tab)

Agenda:

• homework check for #2, #3 – Media’s Role in Polarization – discussion – take notes
• Continue with some of the other links to videos/articles – continue with pulling a quote or two that supports links to the increase in apathy and polarization
• work on your story – first drafts are due tomorrow

Agenda:

• Homework check of the parallels between SS and the Two-Eyed seeing – Discussion
• Media and Polarization activity

Agenda:

• Homework check for yesterday’s assignment: The Single Story of Canada’s First Nations: you should have some reflections/notes in the boxes
• Discussion of recent event
  • Connections? common threads? take down some reflections as we listen to an a segment of the CBC’s morning edition
• Review yesterday’s assignment – discuss
• Poem – Two-eyed Seeing by Rebecca Thomas (in the New Media tab of the blog) – this poem is due Wednesday for explication (homework check mark)
• work on your New Story

Agenda:

• Finish our discussion of the Danger of the Single Story questions
• review the stories:
  • using the Work Log – start thinking of your angle for your story
  • School based Hard News – who do you need to interview? What open-ended questions can you ask? When will you make contact? What will your artwork be for your story? Will you take the photo? live action shot or a staged photo? DO NOT LET THIS PROCESS LAG!!
    • get started on the questions etc.
  • Feature – what is your angle? What balanced research will you do? What websites will help you in the process? Start the research. What do you want your take-away to be for your reader? Have and end in mind. What online photos will you use for your artwork? Use the Work Log to keep track of everything you use.
  • review the How-to documents in BOTH the New Media and Eddy Document tabs – the writing is different for each style of story
• Review the Parallelism test