Multimedia Class Is Now Officially Defunct

Never to return....

Grades are on the Sejong website

Check 'em out. No begging, please!

Grades will be out on Wednesday afternoon

I apologize for making you wait. I am moving to a new apartment, and the tests take a long time to grade. I will finish your class first... David

upload and test

I will upload Grizzly Man on Friday. HERE it is ... Sunday I will pull it back down.

I forgot to mention that the test will have all kinds of questions: multiple choice, matching, true and false, short answer, long answer. It will be 5-6 pages long...

David

Tuesday. Review

Here is the FILE you need to download. Print out any files you don't have.

*About the Final Exam*

The listening section will be shorter than I thought. We won't have much time for that. There will be a few fill-in-the-blank listening questions, like this:

Jim: "She’s not gonna go away. She’s _______ ______ ______. She’s all around me…."

But that is a small percentage of the whole test. Maybe 25%

Questions about the videos -- A Class Divided, March of the Penguins, and Queer Eye Grizzly Man (cd 1) and dating-- will be in the form of true and false questions, short answer (1-2 sentences), vocabulary and so on.

So don't spend all your time listening to every single word in the 4 videos. Understand what is happening in those videos to the best of your ability by using the handouts. That is, review everything in those handouts. Remember, I will not ask you about the content of the other videos ("Fear Factor","Mindfreak," and so on).

David

For Thursday, May 28

We will continue with A Class Divided. If we have time, I will show a short film. You need to print THIS.

David

For Tuesday May 24 -- Discrimination

In Tuesday's class we will be watching part of a well-known documentary on discrimination and racism called "A Class Divided". Here is an introduction to the film (read it):

On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why someone would kill him. So Elliott decided to teach her class a daring lesson in the meaning of discrimination. She wanted to show her pupils what discrimination feels like, and what it can do to people.

Elliott divided her class by eye color -- those with blue eyes and those with brown. On the first day, the blue-eyed children were told they were smarter, nicer, neater, and better than those with brown eyes. Throughout the day, Elliott praised them and allowed them privileges such as a taking a longer recess and being first in the lunch line. In contrast, the brown-eyed children had to wear collars around their necks and their behavior and performance were criticized and ridiculed by Elliott. On the second day, the roles were reversed and the blue-eyed children were made to feel inferior while the brown eyes were designated the dominant group.

What happened over the course of the unique two-day exercise astonished both students and teacher. On both days, children who were designated as inferior took on the look and behavior of genuinely inferior students, performing poorly on tests and other work. In contrast, the "superior" students -- students who had been sweet and tolerant before the exercise -- became mean-spirited and seemed to like discriminating against the "inferior" group.

"I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes," says Elliott. She says she realized then that she had "created a microcosm of society in a third-grade classroom."

We will focus on the first two parts. If you want to prepare in advance, feel free to watch it. Here is the transcript (you don't have to print it out).

Here's some vocabulary you need to know before coming to class:
no-win situation
self-fulfilling prophecy
body language
discrimination
merit
prejudice
privilege
racism
stereotype
brotherhood
Here is a FILE you need to print out before class on Tuesday.

Thank you for your patience regarding the technical difficulties we have faced this semester. I know it is difficult to hear in room 104. So HERE is the video for you to download in advance. Everyone needs to get it for the final exam anyway.