Week 5: Sunscreen



Please watch the following video, and answer the questions below:

If you could make a video as a message to your past self, what would you say? What would be the main theme of your video, the main message? (such as: wear sunscreen.) What approach would you take with yourself? Would you tell yourself the advice in a straight-forward way, or would your past self take some convincing? What kind of visuals would you use? What would be some minor themes to support your major theme?

Try to keep your responses to approximately 200 words. Take your time to think about the answers.

Answer the initial prompt by Wednesday, September 25th, midnight. Respond to a classmate by Friday, September 27th, midnight.

Response: Ask your classmate a question about his/her post. The question should continue to be respectful, and should provoke your classmate to think more deeply about the message s/he is sending to him/herself.

Week Two: Pure Corruption

Practice paraphrasing: (post by Monday, September 9th)

Please answer the following questions/prompts about the video clip, "Pure Corruption," and incorporate your answers into a 200-word paragraph.

What is the main point of the portion of the video that discusses "the numbers"and cheating?
(Keep your writing to just this part of the video, and expand on the ideas without reaching into opinion or outside the context of the video)?
How does the information on the numbers relate to the video as a whole?
Include any unknown words from this portion of the video (even English ones that you might have to look up).

Stick to information that was only in the video and nothing more. Please keep your post free of opinion, as this is meant to only be a paraphrase.

By Wednesday, midnight, reply to a classmate. Point out one aspect of your classmate's paraphrase that made sense to you, and mention one aspect of your classmate's summary that you feel s/he could improve on and why.

Please remain thoughtful and respectful with your interactions with each other.

For those who did not make it to class, please post your blog before midnight tonight. The clip we watched was Chapter 2, "Pure Corruption" from the movie, Freakonomics. You can also find the video clip on http://vimeo.com/12033732, or on Netflix instant watch.