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.
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