Monday, April 7, 2014

Class Agenda 4.7

1. Quiz

2. Announcements

3. Instragram: Log into your Instagram account and find one picture a classmate posted that strikes you as interesting. Tell them why you found their picture interesting in 2-3 sentences as a comment on their account.

4. Twitter:

a. Please log into Twitter and look at your privacy/security settings. Change them to "protected" if you wish to keep your Tweets within this class.

b. Next, find one idea from the reading you found interesting and paraphrase in a Tweet. Use the hashtag #shockdoctrine #sandy in your Tweet.

c. Find a Tweet from a classmate that you found interesting. Favorite it, and then reply to it. In your reply, tell the student how they might use their Tweeted idea for the second essay assignment.

5. Blog:

a. Return to your notes from Friday and look at the keyword your group found or created. In your blog, write a quote sandwich. Each part of the sandwich will have at least one sentence that does the following things:

it starts with a claim about New York's response to Hurricane Sandy (was the response adequate? Was the response inadequate? Make a claim and say why).

Then lead into an introduction of the text ("Blanking the Beach"),

then introduce the key word by "grabbing" it from a specific quote in the reading,

then define the term,

then explain its importance to the text,

then explain its importance to New York's experience with Hurricane Sandy

6. Class discussion: "Klein on Superstorm Sandy," "The Myth of Environmental Catastrophism"

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