Working on the final project (5/20): here's the work for those of you who are exempt. Here's the work for those who need to finish the projects for the final exam grade. Make sure that you read the grading criteria for the project and plan accordingly. In many cases, it might be a good idea to write a paragraph explaining the project to make sure that you meet all requirements.
Here are some online tools to help you get started on your project. If you are going to use PosterMyWall, you can access it here
You need to draft a proposal for Tuesday, 5/14 (no coupons, no exceptions) and bring the hard copy to class with you. Here is a sample student entry for an annotated bibliography with my comments. Here are my notes after reading the annotated bibligraphies handed in to me last Friday. Read both of these before you work on yours. Here's Mrs. Stern's handout about how to format in Google Docs so that the second line will indent.
Please read the handout for the final project assignment. Here are the next planning steps (May 1, 2019)
Everyone also needs to create and maintain an annotated bibliography (check this source for more information). The summary of the source must be your own (do not copy or paraphrase). Here are some tips for writing the annotated bibliography. Here is a draft sample of a second paragraph of an annotated bibliography entry (and some tips).
MLA help: Here's a screen shot of a website that shows you where/what to look for. Here are some explanations and formatting tips for the most common types of sources. Here are some pages from the new MLA book about in-text citation.
Alphabetizing help: Alphabetize by first letter of first word in the entry (ignore articles "A," "An" and "The"). If your entry starts with a number, alphabetize by the first letter of the number when written out (i.e. 81 would be "eighty-one" so alphabetize by "e"). If you have more than one entry starting with the same word, move to the first difference in letters between the entries and use that.
Here's how to cite a You Tube video:
"Title of Video." YouTube, uploaded by, date, URL
Here's an example:
"EPA's Role in Restoring Boston Harbor." YouTube, uploaded by, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 19 May, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIN1S5mJoCQ
Here's how to cite a podcast:
"Title of Episode." Title of Podcast. Title of Website (if different from podcast title), Publisher,
date, Season, Episode, URL.
Here's an example:
"Before The Court." In the Dark. AMP Reports, American Public Media, S. 2 Ep. 12,
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/03/19/in-the-dark-s2e12.
All research for the final projects must have some literary piece as part of the research (a novel, a film, a storytelling podcast, short stories, poetry, music, etc.). You also need to have questions you are hoping to answer or explore, one that your research should help you develop an answer that will serve as a thesis for your final (if applicable).Here are some resources based on your choices:
Book possibilities
If you are interested in continuing to work with either poetry or art or want to read and write about a novel, a play or a group of short stories, talk with me.
If you are interested in exploring film over the course of several decades, talk with me.
If you were looking to expand on understanding of Photographer Dawoud Bey's work: consider looking at Gordon Parks, Charles Moore, Carrie Mae Weems, a blog post about the importance of photography in African American history, Smithsonian article about the history of photography as a tool for enlightenment. Episode of Seeing White about photography. Article: "The Racial Bias Built Into Photography"
Art resources:
Artists Respond to Vietnam War - video of exhibition, plus website of exhibition.
The controversy around Dana Schutlz's Open Casket: Schultz's explanation, protests, censorship
Open Casket and the question of Empathy
"The Case Against Dana Schultz"
The effect of the controvesy on museums
"How AIDS Changed Art Forever"
Constitutional issues:
National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution (click on "Explore," then on the Amendment you are interested in).
Guns and the Second Amendment:
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect: "The Gun Show Reprise."
This American Life: "Before the Next One."
BackStory: "Guns v Speech: When Protesters are Armed"
Article: "How Active Shooter Became a Big (and Possibly Traumatizing Business"
Info please timeline of legislation
Pew research about attitudes toward gun legislation
Rand study about gun legislation
Supreme Court:
Heightened Scrutiny : this is a terrific podcast about Supreme Court decisions. The episodes about about a half hour and they feature actual audio from the court arguments. Scroll down the page and hit the "load more episodes" button to see more. Look for Loving v. Virginia (1960s), Roe v. Wade (1970s), Bowers v Hardwick (1980s),
Free Speech:
Poetry podcast: "Richard Blanco on the First Ammendment and Freedom of Speech."
Landmark Cases: "Brandenburg v. Ohio."
Landmark Cases: "Tinker v. Des Moines."
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect: "The Hate Debate."
Heightened Scrutiny: "Texas v. Johnson" (flag burning)
Michelle Carter's case (tweets leading to suicide)
Lenny Bruce and free speech (this is a short radio piece that gives an overview. There are great links at the bottom of the article as well).
"When Art Fought The Law and Art Won"
The controversy around Dana Schutlz's Open Casket: Schultz's explanation, protests, censorship
Open Casket and the question of Empathy
The effect of the controvesy on museums
Very interesting article about student protests of faculty speakers on a college campus
Social Media:
Social Media and College applications
Teenagers changed after friend's suicide
Sexual assault survivors calling out accusers on social media
Ten year study about effects of bullying
Podcast: Cyber Harrassment and the Law
War and Race:
'Time: Vietnam and the Black soldier
Podcast: White Supremacy and the Military (Camp Pendleton)
Article from Military Times about white supremacy in the military now
Reflections on Race in the Military
Environment:
Jill Lepore on Rachel Carson
Podcast: History of Lead Paint
Podcast about Flint Water crisis
Timeline of environmental issues in America
Video: Boston Harbor Cleanup
EPA archives: Love Canal + A History of the Love Canal
Zero population growth movement
TED Talk: Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer
Climate One (podcasts about climate change and climate issues)
A collection of TED talks about the environment
Review of two books about climate change
Three writers talk about their work investigating the Flint water crisis, fracking, and opiod addiction
OnPoint: "1 Million Species Endangered..."
Dance:
Here's a treasure trove of history and video about Alvin Ailey and his company
Dance theater of Harlem
A history of breakdancing, plus video
A brief history of music videos
How Online Videos changed dance
Choreographers who changed dance
Movers and Shapers: A Dance podcast
School shootings:
Podcast about shooting at University of Texas shooting 1967.
StoryCorps: Father speaks to son's shooter 25 years later
Denver Post Columbine 25 years later
TED talk: Sue Klebod My son was a Columbine shooter
America: "The Mothers of Columbine" (from 2000)
School shootings data ftom FEMA
Research about active shooter drills
This American Life: "Before the Next One"
Parkland students manifesto for gun legislation
Jill Lepore: Battleground America
FLA approves bill to arm teachers
Poem by Erika Meitner
"We're Teen Journalists and We're Fighting Gun Violence"
Article: What Went Wrong at Parkland
A.P: More than 30 mishaps from adults armed in schools
Public School Review: Pros and Cons of arming teachers
Music:
"The 25 Songs that Matter Right Now"
Discography of folk music in the 1960s
Bob Dylan and the Pulitzer Prize
Dylan's music cited in court cases
Overview of important artists in Civil Rights era music
Sam Cooke and "A Change is Gonnna Come"
Soundtracks of a Revolution episode #1
Teen Activists:
Backstory: History of Teen activism
Article: Skepticism and Teen Activism
Resistance and Revolution: An Exhibit about Vietnam protests (make sure to click on "Interviews" tab for more)
"The Life and Death of a Black Lives Matter Activist"
"What this BLM Activist Thinks Never Again MSD misses..."
Parkland students manifesto for gun legislation
"We're Teen Journalists and We're Fighting Gun Violence"
Schools and equity:
Article about the history of segregation
This American Life: "The Problem We All Live With" (school desegregation) Part 1 Part 2
"The Data proves school segregations is getting worse"
Podcast: "Why is this Happening: Investigating School Segregation"
Newsweek: School Segregation in America is as Bad today as it Was in the 1960s
Linda Greenhouse talking about the Burger Court
Podcast: Ghetto Life 101
NYT Teacher Resources about school segregation
Twitter thread about school lunch policy
Pay gap:
Recent survey about public opinion about pay gap
Freakonomics podcast about pay gap
Stanford paper on gender pay gap
Athletes and protest:
Memorable protests by athletes
Podcast: Code Switch: "On the Shoulders of Giants"
Podcast: Us&Them: Shack! (first black QB in NFL).
1968: A Mexico City Documentary
Podcast: Black Athletes and Activism
Honoring the legacy of Roy Campanella, plus background here
1968 was a breakout year for black athletes
Podcast: Bob Cousy's letter to Bill Russell
"Women in sports: double standards a double fault"
"7 Women Who Broke Down Barriers in Sports"
Red Sox and Trump White House Visit
Hector Velasquez and the White House Visit
WNBA and team protests and here and here
Red Sox and Race
Here's the Yawkey's statement about Red Sox history and race
Red Sox and Jackie Robinson
Wendall Smith's oral history account of the tryout
Tommy Harper on race and Red Sox
Red Sox and Adam Jones
Berkshire Eagle: "Racism at Fenway A Shameful Legacy"
"Playing Through the Pain: Racism in Boston Sports"
Red Sox and Trump White House Visit
Asian American issues:
Video: Model Minority myth
Newsweek: The Drive to Excel (1984) and commentary on that article
Several articles about the Supreme court case involving copyright and The Slants: here and here and here.
Asian American history in film and now
Asian American Activism at Berkeley 50 years
" 'It Makes Me Feel Uncomfortable'"
Grace Lee Boggs and her obituary
Interesting perspective about difficulty of seeing oneself (or not) starts at about 29:00 in and lasts for about 10:00 minutes.
Interview with Helen Hoang about The Bride Test, her new novel.
Celeste Ng and Amy Tan talk about writing, representation, etc.
Interview: Remembering work of Chinese Immigrants on Transcontinental Railroads
Race:
Boston's busing crisis podcast
This is a terrific, nuanced discussion about race and the police in one town in West Virginia (scroll down to "Community and Cops Talking Across the Divide.)"
Scene on Radio Season One: Seeing White (this is a multi part series - you can listen to any of them)
Black Americans, Education and Poverty (panel discusson)
Article: " The Racial Wealth Gap: Addressing America's Most Pressing Epidemic"
Article: Extensive Study Shows Reach of Racism in the Lives of Black Boys
Article: For Black Boys, Family Structure Still Matters
Interview: An Ivy League Profesor On What Campus Conversations about Race Get Wrong
Video: Redlining
Article:"21 Savage and the False Promise of Black Citizenship"
This American Life: "The Problem We All Live With" (school desegregation) Part 1 Part 2
Terrific interview about the history of redlining with the author of The Color Of Money (start at about the 33:00 minute mark of the podcast).
Interview with Michelle Alexander about race and prison and her book The New Jim Crow.'
Podcast: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Podcast: Ghetto Life 101
Poem by Ross Gay
Poem by Jericho Brown
Short story by Eudora Welty about Medgar Evers death
This is a compelling interview between Jennifer Eberhardt (author of Biased) and Rep. Val Demmings.
Taunting and race at a high school basketball game
On Point: New Sandra Bland Video Repoens Conversations on Documenting Police Encounters
Pew Research: How Americans See Race Relations
Article: New Study Finds War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College
Native American:
Code Switch: "The Difficult Math of Being Native American"
More Perfect: "Adoptive Couple v Baby Girl"
Stuff You Missed in History Class: "Dr. Susan La Flesche-Picotte"
On Being: "Layla Long Soldier: The Freedom of Real Apologies"
TED: Changing the way we see Native Americans
Dr. Debbie Reese: Some Truths, but Lots of Lies: Indigeneous Peoples in Children's Literature
Article about Dawland a film about forced child separation
Racial Slurs at Native American Clinic
Video: Native Sexual Assault Cases Falling Through the Cracks
Video: Tribal Justice - prosecuting non-Natives for sexual assault
Addiction:
Us & Them: 'Steve’s' Struggle Began with His Mom’s Prescription Opioids
TED talks about the opiod crisis.
Death, Drugs and Despair in New England
The history of needle exchange
Pros and cons of needle exchange
Today's opiod crisis compared to past
Massachusetts port city fights herion crisis in 1980s
War on Drugs timeline
On the Media:This American War on Drugs
Marketplace: The legacy of the war on drugs
The 13th (film avaiable on Netflix)
"Voices from the War on Drugs"
Reveal: the War on Drugs, Revisited
Article: New Study Finds War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College
LGBTQ+ history
This American Life: "81 Words" - the 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from American Psychiatric Association as a mental illness
Back Story: "Out of the Closet: The LGBTQ Community in American History."
99% Invisible: "Remembering Stonewall."
Landmark Cases: "Griswold v. CT"
Unerased: The History of Conversion Therapy. (this is a multi part series - you can listen to any of them)
Criminal: " Lavender Scare"
New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"
Article: "How Same-Sex Couples Divide Chores and What it Tells Us About Modern Parenting"
Profile of Audre Lorde part 1 and part 2
Here's treasure trove of podcasts with activists in their own words
Video: Harvey Milk
Stuff You Missed in History: Bayard Rustin part 1, part 2
Case pending in front of Supreme Court about whether or not LGBTQ+ people are protected from firing.
Prison/prison reform:
BackStory: "Land of the Free? The History of Incarceration in the U.S."
Serial: Season 3
Library Talks Podcast: "Reforming America's Prisons."
Poverty and prison cycle
Article: "the Case for Capping all Prison Sentences at 20 Years"
Interview with Michelle Alexander about race and prison and her book The New Jim Crow.
This is a compelling interview between Jennifer Eberhardt (author of Biased) and Rep. Val Demmings. The second half deals with prison reform issues.
First Step Act Juvenile Justice Reform bill
NJJDPC "Promoting Safe Communities" reform proposals
Mother's Day cards and prison
Some articles reporting about the new HBO documentary about the foster care system here, here and here.
Article: New Study Finds War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College
Women's Rights/Women's issues:
Film: She's Beautiful When She's Angry (available on Netflix or through CW/Mars) Here's the trailer
RadioLab: More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Scene on Radio: "Himpathy"
Code Switch: "When 'Miss' Meant So Much More."
New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"
Profile of Audre Lorde part 1 and part 2
Article: "When The Suffrage Movement Sold Out"
Article: "It's Time to Return Black Women to the Center of the history of Women's Suffrage"
Poetry Off The Shelf: "A Change of World" (this is a series - any or all are great)
Article: "A School Nurse Is On a Mission to Count Women Killed by Men"
Article " On the Trial of Missing American Indian Women"
Article: "The Rape of Recy Taylor"
Heightened Scrutiny: "Roe v. Wade"
From The Post Reports podcast: a new report on gender discrimintation in economics (listen to the first ten minutes of the podcast).
Article: "As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, The Pay Drops"
Article" The Top Jobs Where Women Are Outnumbered by Men Named John."
Article: "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence"
Radio Diaries: "The Story of Jane"
Radio Diaries: "Miss Subways"
Article about marital rape laws
"Until 1975, Sexual Harrassment was a Menace with No Name"
"A Brief History of Sexual Harrassment Before Anita Hill"
The Makers: part two (Roe V Wade, ERA, Title IX, etc.), part three (1980s, 1990s)
Frontline: The Abortion Debate.
Article about The Boston Women's Health Care Collaborative and Our Bodies, Ourselves
Podcast interview: How Abortion and Birth Control became politicized
Podcast: Roe's history and what might happen now
New rules that allow health care providers to opt out of providing care that conflicts with religious beliefs
Pew Report on Religious Groups' positions on abortion
NYT' s piece featuring 8 men telling their stories about sexual assault and regret
NYT essay "My Rapist Apologized. I Still Needed an Abortion"
Poverty:
The Poor People's Campaign 1968-1969 (article looking back)
City of Hope: 1968 Poor People's Campaign exhibition at Natonal Museum of African Ameican Museum
On the Media: "Busted- America's Poverty Myths" (5 part series)
Podcast about the research on food stamps
Research about Head Start
The case against universal preschool (this has some good research on both sides)
How to make school funding fair
Poverty and housing
Raising minimum wage and child care
Pros and Cons of raising the minimum wage
Ted Talk about poverty
A collection of news stories about poverty
Article: " The Racial Wealth Gap: Addressing America's Most Pressing Epidemic"
Freakonomics: Fighting Poverty with Actual Evidence
Twitter thread about school lunch policy - here's an article about the policy and here's their change of mind
HEALTH CARE
President Nixon's Health Care proposal
Pro and Con health care
Universal basic income pro con
Teens and anxiety - Pew Research findings
"Are Mental Health Issues on the Rise?"
Upon Reflections: Looking Back at Healing and the Mind (1980s)
Healing and the Mind: The Mystery of Chi
Healing and the Mind: Healing from Within
Teen health podcast (episode 13?)
Podcast with teen call-ins on teen anxiety
Essay: A brief history of anxiety
Article that links to some studies and other information about anxiety in the 1980s and 1990s
Women in Aerospace:
Grace Hopper on 60 Minutes
In Search of History: Mercury 13
Lynn Sherr talks about Sally Ride
Legacy of Racial Stereotyping
Code Switch: Blackface
TED Talk: Breaking down stereotypes
TED: Changing the way we see Native Americans
Dr. Debbie Reese: Some Truths, but Lots of Lies: Indigineous Peoples in Children's Literature
Article: "The Racial Bias Built Into Photography"
Racial Slurs at Native American Clinic
" 'It Makes Me Feel Uncomfortable'"
Poem by Ross Gay
WRHS student film (from Ms. Marshall's 2018 Am Lit class) dealing wih black Amercan tropes and stereotypes
Gender and Athletics:
Podcast: Women's sports: A Man's Game (coaching + women's teams)
Podcast: Sports, Sex and Gender
"A Sporting Difference: On Men's and Women's Athletics"
"Women in sports: double standards a double fault"
"7 Women Who Broke Down Barriers in Sports"
"The Game Changing Women in the N.F.L."
"The NFL Has Proven It Doesn'tCare About Women"
"The NFL’s problem with violence against women: a story of profit and apathy"
"The Sports World Is Finally Catching Up To The Women Who Were There First"
"Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted A Baby"
"Allyson Felix: My Own Nike Pregnancy Story"
Technology and anxiety:
"Are Robots Competing for Your Job?" - a history of tech anxiety
Should workers fear increasing automation?
Malcolm X
His letter after his pilgrimage to Mecca and video of him after Mecca
Speech: "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Speech: "Message to the Grassroots"
NYT Archive: Malcolm's break with Nation of Islam Leader