One+Unit+Challenge+Schedule

HW: Handout (Chapter 3 from //No Time to Think//); [|Twitter Parental Permission] (please have your parents sign this form and return to the next class) SECTION || 9/14 (M) || 9/15 (T) || 9/16 (W) || 9/17 (TH) || 9/18 (F) || D || 1 || X || 2 || 3 || 4 || C, G || X || 1 || 2 || 3 || X || LESSON || IN CLASS || HOMEWORK || 1 || * Sotomayor clip in and out of context HW: Read 3 articles: //[|Journalist guide to Twitter], [|How to Ask Effective Questions on Twitter],// and //[|The Highs and Lows of Public Officials on Twitter]// || 2 || Why is twitter necessary? 1812, Pearl Harbor, Tiananmen Square, 9-11, Iranian Elections; Twitter log on and how to follow news issues-hash tags, sample searches, DMs and follow up; Leah Betancourt's website and credentials || HW: Prepare two questions to ask Leah on issues discussed so far || 3 || * Case study -- Iranian elections and the use of Twitter HW: Case study review; looking for media bias in videos of oath of office: watch clips at [|//Libguides Media Bias videos//] Read Economist article: [|It's Far from Over] || SECTION || 9/21 (M) || 9/22 (T) || 9/23 (W) || 9/24 (TH) || 9/25 (F) || D || X || 1 || 2 || 3 || X || C, G || 4 || 1 || 2 || X || 3 || LESSON || IN CLASS || HOMEWORK || 1 || * Introduce podcast assignment/ [|rubric] Read [|"Apartheid Education"] [|Apartheid Education Guided Reading Questions] (You will have time to discuss these questions in class, but may begin them while reading the article at home) ||
 *  Monty Python clip (3 minutes)
 * Discussion on rhetoric, [|argument & contradiction; rhetorical fallacies];
 *  Video – Jon Stewart (14 minutes) 
 *  Purpose of media, bias of media, what is the media’s role?
 *  [|Obama/Bush Joker posters] ||
 * Presentation on ‘The 18 days’
 * Introduce media bias (Iranian presidential oath of office)
 * Prep time for twitter with Leah ||
 * 4 || * Deconstructing interview with Leah
 * Review articles & discuss bias
 * Begin researching. Follow twitter journalists, choose specific articles illustrating bias || HW: Go to muckrack and media on twitter, find 2 other journalists and ask them 2 follow up questions on your podcast issue--be sure to add Berkeley hash tags ||
 * Assign countries/topics & media outlets
 * How to use movie maker
 * Library open every day until 5
 * Can use group study halls to film with flip camera ||


 * SECTION || 9/14 (M) || 9/15 (T) || 9/16 (W) || 9/17 (TH) || 9/18 (F) ||
 * D || 1 || X || 2 || 3 || 4 ||
 * C, G || X || 1 || 2 || 3 || X ||
 * SECTION || 9/21 (M) || 9/22 (T) || 9/23 (W) || 9/24 (TH) || 9/25 (F) ||
 * D || X || 5 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * C, G || 4 || 5 ||  ||   ||   ||

Day 3 HW for day 4 – media bias – video clips & Economist article on Ahmedinejad inauguration. Look for bias. Twittering with Leah – during lunch on September 17 Day 4
 * LESSON || IN CLASS || HOMEWORK ||
 * 1 || Sotomayor sound bite in and out of context. Discussion of shifting media with new technology ; Monty Python clip-rhetoric, argument, contradiction; Jon Stewart clip (purpose of the media), Obama/Bush Joker poster || HW: Read 3 articles: //[|Journalist guide to Twitter], [|How to Ask Effective Questions on Twitter],// and //[|The Highs and Lows of Public Officials on Twitter]// ||
 * 2 || Why is twitter necessary? 1812, Pearl Harbor, Tiananmen Square, 9-11, Iranian Elections; Twitter log on and how to follow news issues-hash tags, sample searches, DMs and follow up; Leah Betancourt's website and credentials || HW: Prepare two questions to ask Leah on issues discussed so far ||   ||
 * 3 || * Case study -- 18 days Iranian elections and the use of Twitter
 * Introduce media bias ( Iranian Presidential oath of office ) || HW: Case study review; looking for media bias in videos of oath of office: [|//Libguides Media Bias videos//] It[|'s Far from Over (Economist article on Iranian oath of office)] ||
 * 4 || Assign topics and media outlets; go over requirements of podcast assignment (due 9/26). || HW: Go to muckrack and media on twitter, find 2 other journalists and ask them 2 follow up questions on your podcast issue--be sure to add Berkeley hash tags
 * Case study -- Iranian elections and the use of Twitter
 * Presentation on ‘The 18 days’
 * Introduce media bias (Iranian presidential oath of office)
 * Prep time for twitter with Leah

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