Please use period 7 to complete your radio play script drafts. These are due by 11:59 tonight. Please complete the scripts and upload them into our Google Classroom. Late work will be accepted up to Friday night for MP2. Extra credit for MP2 may be turned in no later than Friday, 3:00 on January 25.
If you have completed your radio script before the end of period 7, please consider this:
Extra Credit Option (Radio): Watch the following short documentary about radio: "Generation Radio" (34 minutes). Use the Cornell note taking graphic organizer to take notes on key or important details in the film. Turn in by Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:00 for extra credit for MP2.
Period 8: Good Night and Good Luck (2005, film) directed and written by George Clooney.
One of the more important jobs of the media is to alert the masses and help inform us (American society) of issues and civil discourse to self regulate our democracy. One enemy of media journalists is the threat of censorship.
Extra Credit Option (Radio/Speech): After reading and listening to these two speeches from Dr. King, consider the role of mass media in delivering his message (even decades after his assassination). What "dangerous or courageous thinking" does Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak about that might change our lives for the better in our American society? You might also reflect on the film Good Night and Good Luck and the current government administration's issues happening to us now. Write and reflect on these ideas. Turn your ideas into a speech draft that might be recorded on the radio. Reference these sources in your speech to support your own ideas. Turn in by Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:00 for extra credit for MP2.
HOMEWORK: None. If you haven't completed your radio draft, please do so on your own time and turn in by next class. See extra credit options for struggling students (or students who want to take advantage of your education...)
If you have completed your radio script before the end of period 7, please consider this:
Extra Credit Option (Radio): Watch the following short documentary about radio: "Generation Radio" (34 minutes). Use the Cornell note taking graphic organizer to take notes on key or important details in the film. Turn in by Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:00 for extra credit for MP2.
Period 8: Good Night and Good Luck (2005, film) directed and written by George Clooney.
One of the more important jobs of the media is to alert the masses and help inform us (American society) of issues and civil discourse to self regulate our democracy. One enemy of media journalists is the threat of censorship.
- Do you think it is right and just for the media to report the truth--or is truth an impossible objective?
- Should the media take on the role of defender of our civil liberties or freedoms? Why or why not?
- Should the government influence or censor the media (particularly if the media is delivering a message the government does not support or may be dangerous to its audience)?
- Should the media take political action or sides on an issue? If so, what actions might be most effective? or what rules should govern the media to limit their opinion?
- What is media's role in the security of the American people?
As you view the film Good Night and Good Luck, based on a true story and set in the early 1950's during the beginning of the Cold War, take notes on questions raised for our discussion after the film (and for those of you who need more extra credit, an essay...). We will continue our screening and discussion of the film Friday.
Friday is also the last day of the marking period for Arts classes. Midterm week starts after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
To celebrate Dr. King, listen to these speeches:
- Your Life's Blueprint (from the speech to the students at Barratt Jr. High School, for the full speech check out: this and the transcript.)
- The Three Evils of Society (and the transcript).
Extra Credit Option (Radio/Speech): After reading and listening to these two speeches from Dr. King, consider the role of mass media in delivering his message (even decades after his assassination). What "dangerous or courageous thinking" does Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak about that might change our lives for the better in our American society? You might also reflect on the film Good Night and Good Luck and the current government administration's issues happening to us now. Write and reflect on these ideas. Turn your ideas into a speech draft that might be recorded on the radio. Reference these sources in your speech to support your own ideas. Turn in by Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:00 for extra credit for MP2.
HOMEWORK: None. If you haven't completed your radio draft, please do so on your own time and turn in by next class. See extra credit options for struggling students (or students who want to take advantage of your education...)
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