Agenda - Week Seven
Tuesday October 4
Walking in Music: Songs from the war that took more American lives than all others combined
Walking in Music: Songs from the war that took more American lives than all others combined
- "Marching Through Georgia" - Old Crow Medicine Show - lyrics
- "Oh I'm a Good Ol' Rebel" - 2nd South Carolina String Band - lyrics
- Viewing Assignment: Come and See: 3:30-6:00PM thursday, Oct. 6 - Please be on time, the showing will begin promptly.
- Viewing Assignment: Film: The Fog of War (live linked) Course Wiki/webpage Here. Robert McNamera page Here
- Next Reading Assignment: Temple Grandin - Animals in Translation - Chapter Four - "Animal Aggression"
- Reaction Paper - Come and See - Oct 11
- Reaction Paper - The Fog of War - Oct 20
- Reaction paper on Animals in Translation - due Nov. 10
- Analytic Essay - Oct. 25
- Meet in small groups as in week five (30 min,)
- Focus on one paper at a time
- Share the instructor's feedback on earlier papers
- Read each paper aloud and pass it around for comments/correction
- Suggest possible edits, particularly those that connect to the instructor's feedback
- Discuss central ideas, exploring comparisons and contrasts in topic and treatment
- Group assignments (These are tentative - if there are abscences, we might have to change, improvise):
- Erika, Razhinder, Jenine, Kareem
- Malia, Megan, Violet, Aaron
- Hinano, Sam, Rejia, Marianna
- Sariah, Kathleen, Yareli,
- What are the intentions in producing the work?
- The filmmakers in "Dead Birds"
- Homer in The Iliad
- Chris Hedges in War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
- Elem Klimov in Come and See
- What is the significance of the sequencing in each case?
- What connects Dead Birds, The Iliad, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and Come and See?
- What new perspectives on war have you evolved since the class began?
Thursday, October 6
Activity: Watch Film Come and See together 3:30-6:00 brief intermission at 4:30
Announcements:
- Viewing Assignment: Film: The Fog of War (live linked) Course Wiki/webpage Here. Robert McNamera page Here
- Next Reading Assignment: Temple Grandin - Animals in Translation - Chapter Four - "Animal Aggression"
- Reaction Paper - Come and See - Oct 11
- Fall Break - No class: Oct. 13
- Reaction Paper - The Fog of War - Oct 20
- Reaction paper on Animals in Translation - due Nov. 10
- Analytic Essay - Oct. 25
- Students can re-watch " Dead Birds" which is now available, perhaps temporarily, online.. This is the link:
- Students can watch or re-watch "The Fog of War" online.. This is the link:
- Students can re-watch "Come and See" online.. This is the link: