Due Tues. 21/Wed. 22

Your graphic organizer--illustrating who you are as a cultural being is due on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Remember that your images can speak for themselves, or you can allow words to paint a picture if you are choosing a more simple, less visual piece.

Your illustration should cover at least four (ideally five) areas of influence. These can be the circles we went over during class (Family/Friends, Neighborhood, City, State, and Country), or you can create your own, for example you could choose Media as one major realm of influence, or Sports, or Religion. Any of these ideas work.

The important thing is to consider how these influences have shaped your ideas about right and wrong, ugly and beautiful, success and failure, etc. We will be talking about these areas of influence in class.

I look forward to your work.

Sports columns will be returned Tuesday/Wednesday.

Don't forget to scroll down for important reminders!

If you missed Tuesday 21 or Wednesday 22, see the following journal prompts and make sure to complete them.
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Today you missed two important journal writes. One was aimed at examining yourself as a cultural being using your Graphic Organizer (illustrating your "Circles" of Influence--due today) as well as your definition of culture. We wrote about how culture has shaped our expressions and beliefs of power, money vs. happiness, definitions or success and failure, education (as a right not a privilege), hierarchy, aging, dying, manners, etc. Then we wrote about where those beliefs come from. Where does the messaging originate?

1/2 page

Next we wrote about a time when we had a "wake-up call" in nature. We used vivid language to write about an event or experience that served to shake us up or wake us up.

On Monday (were you absent?), we were introduced to the possibility of being on the radio show "The Moth". Producers will work with 4-7 Grant High School students who submit an application to participate as well as a 1-2 page story "pitch" describing a time when "Everything Changed". Students wrote for 15 minutes in their notebooks either fleshing out an idea or brainstorming a variety of ideas.

1/2 page at least.

We read and annotated a high-level text today by Alexandr Solshenitsyn. Students annotated and translated the writing into their own words. If you miss Tuesday or Wednesday you need to come in and read from the textbook (page 539-540) and then get the sheet from me called "One Word of Truth Outweighs the World". This text will be very important in this Unit so be sure to make it up!
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