Media Awareness Assignments

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Media Awareness Daily Topics & Assignments

Date
 Topic
 Assignment
 Due Date
Wednesday 9/1
 Introductions
 First day items
Tuesday 9/7
Thursday 9/2
 Finish course overview
Gaming
Medium is the Message.ppt

 First day items
 Tuesday 9/7




Tuesday 9/7
 Gaming: Stephen Johnson; Gamer Generation
Johnson book.ppt

 Course contract
 Monday 9/13
Wednesday 9/8
 Class does not meet





Monday 9/13
 Gamer Generation

Tuesday 9/14
 Gamer Generation

Wednesday 9/15
 Gamer Generation

Thursday 9/16
 Discussion of Gamer Generation
Gaming issues and articles
South Park: Make Love Not Warcraft

Friday 9/17
 Wrap up Gaming





Monday 9/20
 Class does not meet

Tuesday 9/21
 Gaming wrap up; New Communities

Wednesday 9/22
 New Communities: video segments

Thursday 9/23
 New Communities: articles, found poems

Friday 9/24
 New Communities: found poems, analysis
 If you were out: Write a found poem using the two articles from Thursday's class. Here are the instructions: Found poems




Monday 9/27
 Internet & the Brain: Intro

Tuesday 9/28
 Class does not meet

Wednesday 9/29
 Internet & the Brain: Intro

Thursday 9/30
 Tools of the Mind

Friday 10/1
 Tools of the Mind; The Deepening Page





Monday 10/4
 The Deepening Page: Gutenberg

Tuesday 10/5
 Evolution of Reading & Writing

Wednesday 10/6
 Class does not meet

Thursday 10/7
 Socratic Seminar: A Medium of the Most General Nature-- the Internet subsumes everything!

Friday 10/8
 The Very Image of a Book





Tuesday 10/12
 Multitasking

Wednesday 10/13
 Multitasking & Memory

Thursday 10/14
 Three C's

Friday 10/15
 Class does not meet





Monday 10/18
 Work on team project

Tuesday 10/19
 Work on team project

Wednesday 10/20
 Class does not meet

Thursday 10/21
 Work on team project

Friday 10/22
 Present team project #1





Monday 10/25
 Class does not meet

Tuesday 10/26
 Debrief; Essay Intro

Wednesday 10/27
 Essay #1

Thursday 10/28
 Gender: Intro

Friday 10/29
 Tough Guise
 Honors projects
 Mon 11/1




Monday 11/1
 Honors project presentation

Tuesday 11/2
 Class does not meet

Wednesday 11/3
 Images of Males in Advertisements

Thursday 11/4
 Males in Ads & TV

Friday 11/5
 Mass Media Messages About Males on Prime Time TV





Monday 11/8
 Finish prime time TV; closing messages

Tuesday 11/9
 Males/masculinity journal; Killing Us Softly

Wednesday 11/10
 Class does not meet

Thursday 11/11
 NO SCHOOL

Friday 11/12
 Women in Advertising





Monday 11/15
 Mass media messages about body image & impossible perfection- webquest

Tuesday 11/16
 Finish ad analysis; webquest analysis

Wednesday 11/17
 Erin Brockovich

Thursday 11/18
 Erin Brockovich

Friday 11/19
 Class does not meet





Monday 11/22
 Erin Brockovich; Disney & Gender

Tuesday 11/23
 Disney & Gender





Monday 11/29
 Musical messages about gender; wrap up
 Final gender journal
 Tuesday 11/30
Tuesday 11/30
 Intro: Mixed Messages About Race, Religion, and Ethnicity; Crash

Wednesday 12/1
 Crash

Thursday 12/2
 Class does not meet

Friday 12/3
 Debrief Crash





Monday 12/6
 Begin Do the Right Thing

Tuesday 12/7
 Do the Right Thing

Wednesday 12/8
 Finish Do the Right Thing;

Thursday 12/9
 Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Friday 12/10
 Class does not meet





Monday 12/13
 Ms. Koltov absent; "Just suppose..." writing assignment

Tuesday 12/14
 Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Wednesday 12/15
 Journal; BET lesson

Thursday 12/16
 Countervailing images/messages about race in the media;
Countervailing.ppt

Friday 12/17
 In class essay on Gender, Race, Religion, & Ethnicity
 Finish essay
 Tuesday 12/21




Monday 12/20
 Class does not meet

Tuesday 12/21
 Team project intro

Wednesday 12/22
 Work on team project in library

Thursday 12/23
 Work on team project in library





Monday 1/3
 Work on team project in library
 Team project- to be presented on Thurs 1/6
 Thursday 1/6
Tuesday 1/4
 Music & Violence

Wednesday 1/5
 Class does not meet

Thursday 1/6
 Present team project #2

Friday 1/7