Are you free?
Show this clip:
Easy Rider Jack Nicholson Freedom speech
(One minute and a few seconds long)
Now, say this: Please paraphrase, you must deliver the following content, but in your own words.
If you decided to get up and walk out of this classroom, would you be free to do so without repercussion?
If you think you are 100% free, you may stop the exercise and join the other Trump voters in the hell they call society.
If you are starting to question your freedom, then stick with me.
Task:
Analysis of ER clip: students do this, below is mine. (show your work later, as much as possible)
8 Targets for text are:
Title: Easy Rider
PD: 1969
Genre:
Road movie
Major Claim:
Freedom is not what you think it is
Audience:
Freaks, heads, The Man, Mr. Jones, and the Pajama People.
Tone:
Honest, resigned, cautionary
Purpose:
Self-definition “I’m not just someone who needs a haircut and a job.”
Wikipedia, targets 1 to 4.
Need transcript of speech to cite evidence correctly for targets 5-8. I have that somewhere. More later. I need to use that notebook software, clearly.
Extension
How do you know what you know? Investigate Plato's allegory of the cave and let me know what you think about knowledge. You have the rest of your life to finish this assignment. Message me.
Evaluation
You can collect the targets and evaluate for any CCSS you want. Or you can remember what happened in class and synthesize that information with the students' written work. Then adjust the difficulty, content matter and format to meet their needs, produce a grade or feel good about your work - or all of the above if you want. Are you free?
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