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=Monday, May 6=

>> http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/joshua_febres = = =Tuesday, May 7=
 * =====Unit 7 vocab warm-up:=====
 * =====1. allay, v. - to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve=====
 * =====2. bestial, adj. - beastlike; beastly, brutal; subhuman in intelligence and sensibility=====
 * =====3. convivial, adj. - festive, sociable, having fun together=====
 * =====4. coterie, n. - a circle of acquaintances; a close-knit exclusive group of people with a common interest.=====
 * =====Literacy on Behalf of Others=====
 * =====What is a text?=====
 * What is an argument?
 * loud personal fight
 * exchange trying to convince the other person
 * =====What strategies are used in each?Documentary work=====
 * selection
 * deflection
 * =====Joshua Febres: One in 8 Million=====

>> ==On Behalf of Others== >>>>>> ==== ==== >>>>> ==== 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=
 * =====vocab warm-up:=====
 * =====5. counterpart, n. - a person or thing that closely corresponds to another; a complement=====
 * =====6. demur, v. - to object to (politely). n. - an objection=====
 * =====7. effrontery, n. - shameless boldness, impudence=====
 * =====8. embellish, v. - to decorate, adorn; to improve by adding details=====
 * =====Migrant Mother pictures by Dorothea Lange=====
 * =====[]=====
 * ====What message do you think Lange was trying to send about her choices of what to select and what to deflect?====
 * ====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. ephemeral, adj. - lasting only a short time, short-lived====
 * ====10. felicitous, adj. - marked by well-being or good fortune; appropriate, well chosen====
 * ====11. furtive, adj. - sneaky, secret, shifty====
 * ====12. garish, adj. - tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar way; glaring====

>> ==== 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[]
 * ====What about the Migrant Mother? What was her situation? What did she think about this?====
 * ==== 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. ====
 * ==== [] ====
 * ==== **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. ====
 * 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:====
 * ====13. illusory, adj. - misleading, deceptive; not based in reality, like an illusion====
 * ====14. indigent, adj. - needy, impoverished====
 * ====15. inordinate, adj. - far too great; exceeding reasonable limits, excessive====
 * ====16. jettison, v. - to cast overboard, to get rid of as unnecessary or too much of a burden====
 * ====On Behalf of Others: Day 4====
 * Watch JR ted talk:
 * []
 * Watch interview again, highlighting script for selection and deflection in JR's projects.

> =Friday, May 10= >>>> >>>> =Take notes to turn in on the clips you watch= >>>> =(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?= >>>> =- Are there ethical issues of the kind Agee brings up in his statement? (see Tuesday!)= = = =- Turn in these notes with your final project next Tuesday= > =http://earthsky.org/space/wringing-out-a-washcloth-on-the-iss=
 * ====Finish yesterday's exhibit-opening statement on Migrant Mother images====
 * =Watch four other documentary clips of your choosing:=
 * =[]=
 * =[|http://www.pbs.org/pov/video/search.php?search_type=type&cat=classroom_clips#.UY0Z4YI8wdY]=
 * =Imagine that you could make two documentaries on topics you think people should know about. What would the same issues be?=
 * =wet washcloth in space video:=