Learned Helplessness

See – Think – Wonder

  1. What did you see that didn’t make sense?
  2. What do you think is the message about these people?
  3. Wonder how this might relate to students or young people?

Swine flu

Swine flu

What’s So Funny? – Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

If you want to learn more about this flu, click on the link below.
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Twitter Symptoms

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Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Entertainment or Animal Cruelty?

The 5 W’s & H

Answer the questions below based on your viewing of the video.

  • Who?
  • What?
  • Where?
  • When?
  • Why?
  • How?

Use your answers to decide if this video is fair or biased and what you believe about whether bullfighting is sport or animal cruelty.

Tsunami of Waste?

Gyre, 2009
8×11 feet, in three vertical panels

Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.

Interpret This!

What is the subject of this artwork?

What is really the subject?

Explore details from the work.  What do you find most effective artistically?

Do you understand the meaning of gyre?  Did you know about the spread of plastic in the oceans?

Interpretation: Decide whether you think Chris Jordan’s work is more of an artistic or environmental statement.  Justify your opinion by supporting your view with specific insights or observations.