First Year Seminar G114:
Investigations Across the Curriculum:
Reality and the
Spring 2011
Meesh McCarthy
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Instructor: Meesh McCarthy Office location: Academic Support Programs, CC-1-1300 617-287-6550 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:15 Thursdays 8:45-9:15 |
Peer Wellington
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Library Contact: Janet DiPaolo Healey Library 617-287-5939
FYS G114's
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Academic Advisor: Linda Hamilton Academic Advising CC-1-1100s 617-287-5500 |
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Course materials: Mixed-media
message/Paper Three Instructions Draft
mixed-media-message peer review
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Student-authored materials Copyright (Creative Commons) form
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Lab instructions: |
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Tuesday, February 15
Much
of today's initial lab will be dedicated to sharing material that you will need
to complete your first papers. You will need to work independently to complete
each item on the list below.
Save
a bookmark for this website on your USB key, floppy disk, etc.
Set
up an account on our weblog. Click the Blogger link above to start.
After
you have a Blogger account, each of you will need to contribute
1) your definitions of a term that could work as an opposite for reality
2) your explanation of the section of 1491 that you read as
an individual
In
each entry, be sure to cite sources–authors, page numbers, etc.–as necessary.
If
you finish early, continue working on the First Paper, and look at the links
related to this unit on our links list.
Be
sure that you have completed a peer review for someone else, and that you have
read the comments on the peer review of your paper.
Tuesday, February 22
Read
all the instructions below before beginning any other work.
Required
weblog question: Use your annotation of the first "Unit Two: Reality and
the Present" reading by Sherry Turkle to respond to the following question
on our weblog. (Note that the question refers to a chapter that you did not
read, and the chapter which you did read.):
In the closing section of "Identity Crisis" Sherry
Turkle writes, "As we stand on the boundary between the real and the
virtual, our experience recalls what the anthropologist Victor Turner termed a
liminal moment, a moment of passage when new cultural symbols and meanings can
emerge [footnote 39]" (268). Does Turkle's claim help us shift focus onto the
second course unit? Why or why not? Rely on your annotation of "Growing Up
Tethered" to form your answer.
(The
adjective liminal is important; if it
is a new word for you, look it up in the Oxford
English Dictionary Online (which is included on our list of links).
Optional
question: Use your new double entry to respond to the following question on
Blogger:
Which
paragraph from your preliminary version of Paper One most successfully relies
on evidence from course readings?
Tuesday, March 1
Respond to the
following question on the weblog:
Compare
and contrast Turkle's and Jhally's use of supporting evidence in their
arguments about reality. Be sure to incorporate and cite at least one specific
quotation from each source.
Be sure to
complete any outstanding weblogs.
Tuesday, March 8
Complete one
the appropriate row of the chart below with your assigned group. One person in
each group should send the completed chart to 1) all group members and 2) Meesh
by 10:40.
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Unit Two Sources Chart List all your group-members' names here: |
What is the source's main position/arguments about reality and
how reality is constructed? (Be sure to use at least one specific quotation
as substantiation.) |
How are the arguments about reality, and the evidence used to
support them, organized? (Use at least two specific quotations as support.) |
Which types of evidence does the argument depend on? What are
the best examples of evidence? (Be sure to use at least one specific
quotation as substantiation.) |
What are three (or more) terms/concepts from the reading that
could be added to our general list of course terms? (Be sure to point out why
you identified the particular terms that you chose.) |
Illustrate how the source connects to another Unit 2 source by
associating specific quotes from each one. (At least two direct quotations
will be necessary.) |
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Turkle's "Identity Crisis" |
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Unit Two Sources Chart List all your group-members' names here: |
What is the source's main position/arguments about reality and
how reality is constructed? (Be sure to use at least one specific quotation
as substantiation.) |
How are the arguments about reality, and the evidence used to
support them, organized? (Use at least two specific quotations as support.) |
Which types of evidence does the argument depend on? What are
the best examples of evidence? (Be sure to use at least one specific
quotation as substantiation.) |
What are three (or more) terms/concepts from the reading that
could be added to our general list of course terms? (Be sure to point out why
you identified the particular terms that you chose.) |
Illustrate how the source connects to another Unit 2 source by
associating specific quotes from each one. (At least two direct quotations
will be necessary.) |
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Jhally's Advertising and
the End of the World |
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Unit Two Sources Chart List all your group-members' names here: |
What is the source's main position/arguments about reality and
how reality is constructed? (Be sure to use at least one specific quotation
as substantiation.) |
How are the arguments about reality, and the evidence used to
support them, organized? (Use at least two specific quotations as support.) |
Which types of evidence does the argument depend on? What are
the best examples of evidence? (Be sure to use at least one specific
quotation as substantiation.) |
What are three (or more) terms/concepts from the reading that
could be added to our general list of course terms? (Be sure to point out why
you identified the particular terms that you chose.) |
Illustrate how the source connects to another Unit 2 source by
associating specific quotes from each one. (At least two direct quotations
will be necessary.) |
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Postman's and Powers's "Reenactments..." (Chapter 7) |
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Unit Two Sources Chart List all your group-members' names here: |
What is the source's main position/arguments about reality and
how reality is constructed? (Be sure to use at least one specific quotation
as substantiation.) |
How are the arguments about reality, and the evidence used to
support them, organized? (Use at least two specific quotations as support.) |
Which types of evidence does the argument depend on? What are
the best examples of evidence? (Be sure to use at least one specific
quotation as substantiation.) |
What are three (or more) terms/concepts from the reading that
could be added to our general list of course terms? (Be sure to point out why
you identified the particular terms that you chose.) |
Illustrate how the source connects to another Unit 2 source by
associating specific quotes from each one. (At least two direct quotations
will be necessary.) |
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Postman's and Powers's "...Images..." (Chapter 8) |
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Tuesday, March 29
Respond to the
following prompt on our weblog. Work in your reality television groups to
carefully compose your (2-3 paragraph length) responses in a word processor
before posting them. One person should post the response for each group;
however, each group member's full name should be listed within the response.
Which
course terms can be used to describe reality-television? To answer this
question, post your group's analysis of a specific reality-television episode.
Remember to introduce and cite any sources that you use (e.g., Turkle, Postman
and Powers, Jhally, and the show that you watched), and to let your target
audience know the title of the episode and of the show. To conclude your
response, explain what your analysis indicates about how well
reality-television portrays reality.
Print a degree
audit, unless you already have a printed copy from this semester.
Complete any
outstanding work from unit II, including:
The unit two
source chart, missing weblog entries, and/or double entries in need of
revision.
Tuesday, April 5
Write a three
paragraphs to propose your mixed-media-message (see instructions above), one on
your message about reality, one on the way you will organize your message, and
one on the multiple media that you will use.
Thursday, April 7—Healey Library research
See the first
two sections of the Healey Library wiki, above, and begin researching sources
for your final paper.
Tuesday, April 12
Read and
annotate "Man's Rights...". Make note of course themes that connect
with the text.
Complete two peer
reviews of two draft mixed-media-messages.