What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

HW 8 - Comment on Triangle Partners' Videos Projects

For this homework please post comments to your triangle partners' video projects (the video & the writing they did about it). Please continue to use the ABCDEF structure as a guide. After you post the comment to your partner's blog, please copy and paste both of your comments to a new post in your blog called HW 8. Please accomplish HW 8 by Friday Oct. 2 at 7pm.

A – Appreciate some specific Aspect of the post. Succinctness or thoroughness, readability, particular ideas, language use, tone, humor, imagery, etc.

B – Briefly restate major point/argument/thesis. Show you understand it or explain which parts you don’t.

C – Connect - Connect the author's arguments or ideas with another student's or with something you've seen in the world or with their opposite.

D – Develop - Help the author develop her work further by pointing out spots that are worth expanding, need some revision, or are like wanna-be celebrities (jumping up and down saying "write about me!")

E – Explore - Write a little about what the author's post makes you consider in your own life and in your understanding of how others' live.

F – Friendly and encouraging sign-off.

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