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.

Monday, October 26, 2009

HW 15 - ABCDEF 3 - Treasure Hunting

Please read your triangle partners' posts 10-14.

Find and identify the best part(s) - unusual insights, beautiful use of language, moving personal connections, sturdy arguments, sharpest evidence, etc. Especially consider what "best parts" might help your partner construct a great essay and/or a great art project, at the end of the unit.

Then write an ABCDEF letter to each partner which does the regular (or better than the regular) and emphasizes the best part(s) of 10-14.

If you want to just focus on your partner's best post that's fine - if you want to focus on several or all of the posts that's fine too. Please post the letter as a comment on your partner's blog and as a post (HW 15) on your own blog.

Please post by Tuesday 9pm.

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