Essays:

Narrative learning experience (short)

Define literacy: research

Small paper on Burkett (short)

Compare/contrast own experience to Burkett's (or do categorization)

Analyze film

 

 

Compare/contrast your experience of high school to Elinor Burkett's. Have things changed?

Do you agree with Burkett's conclusions about American ed? What, in your view, are the "real problems" in our high schools?

If you were to make your own descriptive categories of student types different from Burkett's, what would they be?

 

Media Literacy: Hollywood and Education. Analyzing representations of students, teachers, administrators, educational philosophies, environments. This unit will be informed by essays in text that include something about media.

Dangerous Minds

Dead Poets Society

Higher Learning

The Faculty

School of Rock

School Ties

Pay It Forward

Paper Chase

To Sir, With Love

Blackboard Jungle

Up the Down Staircase