Notes for "Make it Plain" on 12/13/16

1:30: Discussed Nobel Prize

Awarded by Swedish Academy

• Chemistry
• Physics
• Biology
• Arts
• Economics
• Literature
• Samuel Beckett
• Seamus Heaney
• William Faulkner
• Ernest Hemingway
• Toni Morrison
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Peace
• Malala Yousafzai
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Barack Obama
• Nelson Mandela
• P.W. Botha
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Al Gore

Alfred Nobel

• Founded Nobel Prize

1:49: Watched Patti Smith cover of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” for Bob Dylan

2:15: Listened to speeches

• Ms. Smith
• On owning many fashion businesses
• Mr. Bustos
• On climbing Mt. Everest
• Ms. Spencer
• On being a reverse-vampire…? (Saving lives by giving blood)
• Mr. Claiborne
• On being remembered in history
• Mr. McGee
• On writing a book on himself (David Levithan, not Leviathan.)
• Mr. Frazier
• On proving the multiverse theory
• Mr. Lucas
• On gaining a seat on the Orleans Parish Task Force (Or mayor?)
• Mr. Rhodes
• On taking over the world through becoming a meme ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• Ms. Harris
• On ending violence in her city (and leaving her mark)
• Mr. Landry
• On having and investing in a son

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Notes for "Make it Plain" on 12/9/16

1:19: Discussed Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X in regards to the Week 9 reading

• Muhammad Ali could be compared to Colin Kapernick
• In both political stance and how people viewed them
• Muhammad Ali stayed with the Nation of Islam
• Was stripped of title due to not going with the draft.
• Went all the way to the Supreme Court to become exonerated

1:40: Watched Liston v Clay video

1:45: Read the “In Defense of Cassius Clay”

2:10: Watched Speeches

• Ms. Mason
• On ridding life-saving medicines of side-effects
• Ms. Hunter
• On dying
• Mr. Trepagnier
• On getting into the MLB Hall of Fame
• Ms. Carbo
• On “Actually Living”
• Ms. Mathieu
• On not knowing
• Ms. Williams
• On seeing her son successful (on his own terms)
• Mr. Dufrene
• On not knowing
• Ms. B
• On finding out what love means in different cultures

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Notes for "Make it Plain" on 12/6/16

1:27: Announcing planning of next week

• Speeches
• Friday Speeches
• Williams
• Carbo
• Mathew
• Mason
• Sylve
• B
• Rhodes
• Dufrene
• Trepagnier
• Hunter
• Tuesday Speeches
• Claiborne
• Carter
• Frazier
• Smith
• McGee
• Spencer
• Bustos
• Landry
• Lucas
• Harris

1:37: Took Quiz

2:52: Discussed the next speech

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Notes for "Make it Plain" on 12/2/16

1:20: Recapped the events of the class on Tuesday

• Malala Yousafzai Speech
• Audience
• Youth Delegates
• Ambassadors
• Family
• Doctors
• Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
• President of General Assembly Vuk Jeremic
• Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown
• Television Audience
• Worldwide Audience
• Divided audience in the world
• Feelings
• Sympathy
• President Barack Obama Eulogy
• Audience
• Church Members
• Ministers
• Choir
• Families of Victims
• Public
• Vice President Joe Biden
• Secretary Hillary Clinton
• Television Audience
• Worldwide Audience
• Divided audience worldwide
• Feelings
• Sympathy

1:50: Rewatching Malala Speech to Grade her performance

2:07: Write about all the audience members that you remember seeing

2:20: Discussed out grading of Malala Yousafzai's speech

2:50: [Layout of the speech]

Educaton - Shooting - Forgiveness - Education helps understanding attackers - Everyone benefits from education - Calling world leaders - Women and Girls - Boys too - “Women & girls to be independent”

1 Book + 1 Pen + 1 Teacher + 1 Child = Change the World

Notes for "Make it Plain" on 11/18/16

1:20: Took notebook quiz

1:42: Graded each other papers (Dirty Communists)

Iron Curtain

    FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta to discuss how the land in Europe would be divided

Propaganda

    A way of convincing someone to do something

    Generally patriotic

    Can be anywhere

Paul Robeson

    Singer accused of being a communist

Isolationism

    When a country doesn't want to interfere with other countries

Poker Face

    Not showing a change, no matter the situation

Tell

    Involuntary action that gives away your emotion

HUAC

    Committee who tried to find communists

Question (HUAC):

    Are you, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

Hollywood Ten

    10 Hollywood professionals who were interrogated by HUAC, but refused to give in

Catch - 22

    No win situation (Kobiyashi Maru, for you Star Trek nerds)

Detente

    A stasis between two countries

Difference between cold and hot war

    U.S. vs. Soviet Union

    Post-WWII Stand-off

    Between 2 countries

    Propaganda war

    Proxy nations to spread influencing

Containment

    A doctrine (by Truman) that was supposed to keep Communism from spreading

2:34: Watched videos for "Poise on the Hot Seat"

Watched Charlize Theron video

Watched Malala Yousafzai video

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Notes for "Make it Plain" on 11/29/16

1:25: Started re-watching the Malala Yousafzai speech (in its entirety)

1:40: Discussed Speech

1:55: Started watching Obama Eulogy

2:22: Discussed speech

2:42: Read the poem, The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

2:50: Wrote about the next speech, "Before I die, I want to..."

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Notes for "Make it Plain" on 11/15/16

1:16: Discussed what the readings were about

McCarthy - ISM

    Sen. Joe McCarthy vs President Eisenhower

         McCarthy Senator for Wisconsin

    During after WWII

    Four Arguments

    Wasn't particularly a court case, but an interrogation

    House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]

         "Hollywood Ten"

              "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

              Detente

              Were forced to name names or deal with persecution

                        Gary Cooper

                        John Wayne

                        Jimmy Stewart

                   Poker Face

                        "Tell"

1:47: Watched American Propaganda against Communism

1:54: Did "Tell" Quiz/paper

2:00: Discussed World War I and II

WPA Work (Work Project Administration)

Isolationism

Herbert Biberman

2:25: Planned Evil Task (>:D)

2:35: Practiced Speeches for Thursday

2:45: Acted on Evil Task (>:D)

2:55: Discussed Evil Task (>:D)

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