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=Monday, May 6= > ===What strategies are used in each?=== > === === > ===Documentary work=== > Joshua Febres: One in 8 Million = = = = =Tuesday, May 7= >>> ====What message do you think Lange was trying to send about her choices of what to select and what to deflect?==== >>> ==== ==== >> ==== Agee became so involved with the people and so upset by what he witnessed that they never wrote the article. He grew increasingly horrified by what he saw as a despicable arrangement: that he, a man with education and opportunities, would be hired and paid to profit by the suffering of men, women, and children who would never have his chances. Agee and Evans quit their assignment and, instead, published their work in the long and troubled book, //Let Us Now Praise Famous Men//, a text that the critic Lionel Trilling has called “the most realistic and the most important moral effort of our American generation.” ==== >> ==== Agee was painfully aware of the challenges built into documentary work, especially when it addresses the lives of people who may not have the means or the opportunity to speak or write for themselves. Out of this concern he wrote the following as the second paragraph in the opening to //Let Us Now Praise Famous Men//. ==== >> ==== ==== >> ==== “It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage, and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings.” ==== >> =Wednesday, May 8= > ==== ==== > ==== **Writing Assignment:** Imagine that you are helping to design and organize an exhibit that presents the role photography has played in helping people understand the lives of others. ==== > ==== As the nation once again faces the possibility of great economic distress, you want this exhibition to urge visitors to think twice about how they view, talk about and treat people who have lost their jobs and homes. ==== > ==== You are thinking about opening the show with a discussion of “Migrant Mother.” ==== > ====** Considering this scenario, write a short text ( about 350 words) in which you: **==== = = =Thursday, May 9= >> =Consider what he selects and deflects.= >> =Video of Inside Out project Ted Talk= >> =http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_one_year_of_turning_the_world_inside_out.html= = = > > =Friday, May 10= >>>> =(You may choose to watch one long documentary of your choosing and take more comprehensive notes on the issues it brings up.)= >>>> =- What does this documentary select?= >>>> =- What is deflected? To what degree?= >>>> =- Turn in these notes with your final project next Tuesday= >>>> =Here's the washcloth-in-space video:= >>>> =http://earthsky.org/space/wringing-out-a-washcloth-on-the-iss= >>>> = =
 * ====Turn in Fahrenheit 451!!!====
 * Greek Roots III vocab warm-upLiteracy on Behalf of OthersLiteracy on Behalf of Others
 * LOGY: science, study, account
 * 1. anthropology, n. - study of culture of human beings
 * 2. genealogy, n. - account of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor
 * 3. geology, n. - study of the earth's history as shown in rock (geo=earth)
 * 4. psychology, n. - science of the mind
 * ====What is a text?====
 * What is an argument?
 * loud personal fight
 * exchange trying to convince the other person
 * exchange trying to convince the other person
 * ===selection - what do I show or tell or emphasize?===
 * ===deflection - what do I put in the background, ignore, or hide?===
 * ====http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/joshua_febres====
 * ====vocab warm-up:====
 * ====BIO: life====
 * ====5. amphibious, adj. - able to live on both land and water (amphi=both)====
 * ====6. antibiotic, n. - a compound or substance that kills or slows the growth of bacteria====
 * ====7. symbiosis, n. - the living together in mutually helpful association of two dissimilar organisms====
 * ====TOMY: cutting, operation involving an incision====
 * ====8. anatomy, n. - 1. dissection of plants or animals to study them. 2. structure of a plant or animal====
 * ====On Behalf of Others====
 * ====Migrant Mother pictures by Dorothea Lange====
 * ====http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html====
 * ====Write a half-page response to the question:====
 * ====James Agee, co-author with Walker Evans of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men====
 * ==== In 1936 during what is known as the Great Depression, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans accepted an assignment to write an article for Fortune magazine in which they would report on the conditions of poor sharecropper families living in the South. Agee and Evans went to Alabama that summer and began interviewing, writing, and taking pictures of poor families who worked on small farms. ====
 * ====Write a one-sentence summary of Agee's statement above.====
 * ====vocab warm-up:====
 * ====9. atom, n. – smallest particle of an element (literally, “not cut” or “indivisible”)====
 * ====10. atomizer, n. – instrument for reducing to a fine spray, esp. perfume====
 * ====11. dichotomy, n. – cutting or division into two; division====
 * ====12. tracheotomy, n. – surgical operation of cutting into the trachea (windpipe)====
 * What about the Migrant Mother? What was her situation? What did she think about this?
 * = http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/migrant_mother.html =
 * ==== read the following web page, which describes the complicated history of those images and the distress that it caused the woman who had agreed to have her photo taken. ====
 * ==== [] ====
 * 1) ==== Provide viewers of this exhibit with the historical background to the image ====
 * 2) ==== Discuss what the image made visible to people who did not experience the uprooting and suffering that migrants did ====
 * 3) ==== Discuss at least two ethical questions surrounding the image based on your reading of the article about the photograph. ====
 * 4) ==== Conclude with a reflection that will make your reader think about the complex nature of doing documentary work on behalf of “others.” ====
 * =vocab warm-up:=
 * =HOMO: alike HETERO: different=
 * =13. homonym, n. – word that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling. Ex: deer and dear=
 * =14. heterodox, adj. – contrary to some acknowledged standard=
 * =HYPER: over, above, beyond the ordinary HYPO: under, beneath, less than the ordinary=
 * =15. hypoglycemia, n. – abnormally low level of sugar in the blood=
 * =16. hypertension, n. – abnormally high blood pressure=
 * =On Behalf of Others: Day 4=
 * =Watch JR ted talk:=
 * =http://blog.ted.com/2010/10/20/meet-jr/=
 * =http://blog.ted.com/2010/10/20/meet-jr/=
 * =Watch again, highlighting script for selection and deflection.=
 * =Finish yesterday's exhibit-opening statement on Migrant Mother images=
 * =Watch four other documentary clips of your choosing:=
 * =http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html=
 * =http://www.pbs.org/pov/video/search.php?search_type=type&cat=classroom_clips#.UY0Z4YI8wdY=
 * =Take notes to turn in on the clips you watch=