Lesson DCW-9

🕒Next ~3 lessons

✍️Complete the checklist

🎯Prepares you to write an essay where you describe the culture wars

The semi-academic blog The Culture Wars invites essay contributions about cultural change and conflict. It’s known for publishing well-researched essays that blend personal insight with historical and current events. You have been invited to write an essay competition and the best contribution will be published on their website.

Your aim is to present various perspectives to help readers understand the culture wars. To support your, you will be able to bring notes (200 words) with you to the essay. These notes should include ideas, claims, statements, examples or arguments from sources that you wish to discuss in your essay.  For example:

• To what extent have concepts like "wokeism" and "cancel culture" enhanced or stifled productive debate on societal issues, such as cultural appropriation?

• Discuss the argument that these movements enforce accountability (pro-woke/cancel) and the counter-argument that they represent censorship (anti-woke/cancel).

Title: The Culture Wars - Cultural Change or Social Censorship?

Word count: at lest 400 words but no more than 800 words

Follow standard essay format and formal writing

🕒~20-30 minutes

✍️Together with Feke

🎯Practice voting democratically and influence Feke's teaching

1. We discuss your experiences of reading the course together with Feke:

• Your attendance in class

• How you want your feedback from Feke (recorded or written)

• How things are going in the subject

• If you are given enough challenges

• If Feke makes you believe in yourself

• If you get the help and support you need

• How safe you feel

2. Respond to the evaluation. You are constantly gathering experiences. Fill in the four questions according to the ten-point scale for is to estimate the current situation. It helps us take you to the next step in your learning.