Quarter 3: Zeitoun/Language & Mass Media

Essential Questions:

• How is meaning impacted by form, structure, and style of a text?

• How do your experiences (cultural, social, historical) impact the meaning you get from a text?

• Whose responsible for exposing and including voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media?

Anchor Texts:

Zeitoun

Absent Narrative Project- Minnesota Center For Humanity

Voices From The Storm

Formative Assessments:

Shared Inquiry Discussions

Student sign up for leading shared inquiry discussion

Topic Tuesdays: Analyzing texts

Blog Posts: Language & Conventions of text types

Summative Assessment:

IB Written Task #1

Learning Activities:

Reading & Assessing Creative Written Task #1

Unit Learning Targets:

• I can understand how form, structure, and style influence meaning of a text.

• I can demonstrate my understanding of how meaning is constructed by language.

• I can consider the changing cultural, social, and historical context in which particular texts are written and perceived.

• I can develop an understanding of the attitudes and values expressed by literary and non-literary texts and their impact on readers.

• I can articulate and apply the specific features of different text types in my own writing (memoir, diary entry, newspaper article, interviews).

Resource Website For Zeitoun/Language & Mass Media Unit:

Click here to view a fabulous resource website filled with supplementary information, articles, and learning resources related to this unit. This website was designed by Washburn Teacher, Dylan Woods-Weisman.

Reading Schedule/Shared Inquiry Sign Up:

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Vocabulary:

audience

purpose

theme

content

tone

mood

stylistic devices

images

structure

Tuesday Topics:

Student Sign-up Sheet for Topic Tuesdays

• Fishing Traditions- Geographically & Culturally

• Overview of Islam & Gender Roles

• Overview of hurricane science & Hurricane Katrina

• Zeitoun's Syria vs. Today's Syria

• Immigrant Issues & Stereotypes after 9/11

• National Guard, prisons system, prisoner rights, and interrogation during diaster

• Relief & Aid: Private vs. government-run organizations

• Louisiana: Before and After The Storm

Links to texts from Topics Tuesdays:

• Fishing Traditions- Geographically & Culturally

• Overview of Islam & Gender Roles

  • Global Connections: Changing roles of women in the Middle East and Islamic Societies

  • Banning Muslim Veil Denies Women A Choice Too

  • Muslim Women Do That

  • Muslim Pie Graph

  • Muslim Women Gain Higher Profile In U.S.

  • Minneseota First State to Fail Somali Muslims

  • Stances of Faith on LBGT Issues: Islam

  • Women in Islam- Discussion about the Hijab

  • The History Channel: Inside Islam

  • Understanding the 5 pillars of Islam

• Overview of hurricane science & Hurricane Katrina

  • Times Topics

  • History Channel: Hurricane Katrina Video focusing on Superdome

  • Science Reference Article: Hurricane Katrina

  • Student prezi with embedded film/presentation

  • When The Levee Broke- Spike Lee

  • Student Prezi- with weather reports, good student model.

  • National Geographic: Day by Day Hurricane Katrina

  • Voice of America: Critique of Government Response

• Zeitoun's Syria vs. Today's Syria

  • Times Topics

  • 5 Reasons To Intervene In Syria Now

  • 9 reasons why military intervention is a bad idea

  • Syria, Sunni-Shiite Split Arise At Muslim Summit

  • Israel Girds for Attacks As Syria Falls Apart

  • Frontline: The Battle For Syria

  • Interactive Map of Syria

  • STUDENT EXAMPLE: great student prezi on Syria: Then and Now

  • STUDENT EXAMPLE: another prezi

  • Interactive Map of Refugee Camps

• Immigrant Issues & Stereotypes after 9/11

  • STUDENT EXAMPLE: prezi

  • Ten Years After 9/11, Muslims are still battling stereotypes

  • American Muslim Minorities: The New Human Rights Struggle (academic paper)

  • Attitudes towards Muslim Americans Post 9/11 (academic paper)

  • PBS: How 9/11 Shaped The Lives of Muslims

  • Eddie Aruza Reports: Muslims and Immigration post 9/11

  • Column: Post 9/11 Discrimination Must End

  • STUDENT POWERPOINT: great example of googld powerpoint presentation

• National Guard, prisons system, prisoner rights, and interrogation during diaster

  • Interview: "Left to die in a New Orleans Prison"

    • Essay: Hurricane Katrina and the lost prisoners of New Orleans

  • "The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina"

    • Video: "Hurricane Katrina and mass execution of prisoners"

    • News report: ACLU report details horrors suffered by Orleans Parish prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

    • Video: Lousiana National Guard- Hurricane Katrina Story, Part I

    • Video: Louisiana National Guard- Hurricane Katrina Story, Part II

    • Video: "They thought they were just abandoned"

    • Video: "Democracy Now: How a hero in New Orleans was arrested..."

  • National Guard Katrina Response

  • Congress Report

  • video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNE_DrGl74

• Relief & Aid: Private vs. government-run organizations

  • Article: "Private companies rush in to help Hurricane Katrina victims"

  • Article: "FEMA faces intense scrutiny"

    • Article: "After failures, government officials play the blame game"

    • Video: "Race, Class, and Katrina"\

  • Video about only private organizations

  • Video saying that FEMA is not helping

  • Article: "Breathtaking waste and fraud in hurricane aid"

    • Article: "Bush- We'll do what it takes"

    • Video: "Slow Recovery from Katrina (2010)

    • Video: "Bush doesn't care about black people"

    • Video: News coverage of the hurricane katrina relief effort

    • Video: "Proof about FEMA"

  • Video: Brad Pitt- preview of his documentary

    • Video: Texas Mormons give aid

• Louisiana: Before and After The Storm:

  • Video: 7 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Reformed

    • Video: Hurricane Katrina: Before, After, and During the storm

    • Article: "New Orleans Police Dept. Needs Reform After Katrina"

    • video: Hurricane Katrina: The Untold Story

    • Article: New Orleans Since Katrina: Before and After

    • Article: Census Finds Katrina Left New Orleans richer, whiter, emptier

  • Zeitoun After Zeitoun:

    • Video: News story on Zeitoun's arrest

    • Video: NOLA now: Zeitoun tells personal account

    • Article: Hurricane Hero Wanted His Ex-Wife Dead