First and Second Assignments - Due Thursday 8:30am

Welcome to all of us.

The first assignment for Personal/Political is to carefully review the class webpage and especially the page on grades and work.

This assignment will serve as the basis for a short quiz and a classroom conversation. Please especially note any specific questions that you still have after re-reading relevant portions of the text. I suggest you print out the grading page and mark it up with your own comments.

The second assignment is to reply to the following 25 questions in an email to Andy using the address he gave in class. You MUST make the subject line read like this: 25 Questions - First Name Last Name, Grade/Section. For example: 25 Questions - Joe Schmidt - 11A. Pretty please EXACTLY since the extra 15 seconds by you will save me hours (I'll be able to search "25 questions" and "12B").

Please cut and paste my questions into your email browser and reply to each one - for example:
1. Name - Andy S.

Don't forget to save your own copy when you're done for your own use later, and in case the computers are against you because you are the future leader of the revolution.

25 Questions Personal/Political

1. Name:

2. Section:

3. Birthdate:

4. Neighborhood:

5. Favorite musicians:

6. Favorite films:

7. Favorite books:

8. 3 students you already know and like in this section:

9. Main things you do when not at school:

10. Average daily amount of time you use for TV-IMin-/websurfing/social networking (Facebook)/videogames (in hours) – please specify hours per day for each form: of electronic stimulation.

11. Guardians’ names and what they do for a living or an interesting hobby:

12. Favorite teachers from SOF and why:

13. The 3 main reasons, in order of importance, that you come to school:

1^st:

2^nd:

3^rd:

14. List 1-3 talents you have (e.g. trombone)

15. What’s one of the main questions you think about intellectually?

16. Your email address:

17. Your cell phone # (or home phone)

18. Your guardians’ phone numbers and email addresses:

19. Are there very good reasons to avoid bothering your family unless necessary?

20. What are your academic strengths?

21. What are your academic weaknesses?

22. Why did you sign up for this course (or if you didn’t, why did you sign up for what you signed up for, and how upset are you)?

23. What are a few interesting ideas you have about the digital/electronic environment of teenagers in NYC today?

24. What are a few interesting ideas you have about the tendency of people to make masks for themselves for daily life – do you think most people are masked even to themselves?

25. What are a few interesting ideas you have about how school has shaped how you see the world?