Thursday, August 25, 2016

Brainstorming Ideas about Cultural Hysteria: August 26, 2016

Focus: How do generate ideas about cultural hysteria?

1. Exploring a Puritan Primer (school book)

a. Read through the lessons together and discuss what strikes you and/or what this primer reveals about Puritan life.

b. Create a 6-line found poem that brings together this primer and your articles.
  • Use one line/phrase from the primer for your title.
  • Select 4 more lines/phrases from the primer and arrange them poetically.
  • Pick a shift word, like "however," "meanwhile," "but," "yet," "nonetheless," etc.
  • Conclude with 2 lines/phrases from your article(s).

2. Comparing ideas about modern cultural hysterias in jigsaw discussions:
  • Summarize the key points from your articles.
  • What do your articles have in common with the Salem witch trials?
  • What do your articles have in common with each other?
  • How would, as a group, define the term "cultural hysteria"? Please have one of you post your definition on today's class blog. Extra challenge: Can you work one of the 10 Puritan words from vocab.com into your definition?

3. Friday Freewrite #1:

What is a hysteria that you have been caught up in since you’ve been alive? Describe it briefly for people (context, theory, etc.)Tell me how it made you feel at the time it was most hysterical--how did it change you at the time, etc. What allowed its resolution in your mind? What you learned from it going forward?

AND/OR

What Americans fear the most? What do we do to feel safe?

AND/OR

What do you, personally, fear the most? What do you do to feel safe?

HW: 
1. If you have not yet done so, please pick a topic for your cultural hysteria research project and enter it on your class document below. Read over others' topics before posting yours; if possible, I prefer that no two members from the same hour have the exact same topic.

4th hour sign-up

6th hour sign-up

2. If it's in your budget or on your bookshelf, please acquire your own copy of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

3. BRING IN STICKY NOTES. We shall hoard them like they're going out of style.

15 comments:

  1. Anthony, Chris, Abby- We fear a lot of culture after anything bad happens in the world (or anything in general).

    ReplyDelete
  2. Henry CJ And Tori
    When a large group of people are deathly afraid of something strange and out of the ordinary and cannot control their fear.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Mya, Angela, Lauren B.

    Cultural Hysteria: mass panic when questions cannot be answered.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Garret, Chris, Noah
    Cultural Hysteria mass controversy over something unexpected.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Garret, Chris, Noah
    Cultural Hysteria mass controversy over something unexpected.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Gwynne, Kaylee, Elle

    Cultural hysteria is an uncontrollable outburst of fear and emotion in a community

    ReplyDelete
  7. Preston, Riley, Deven

    Cultural hysteria- People are afraid of an exaggerated event that doesn't have a logical explanation behind it.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Caleb, Ian, Erker

    Cultural Hysteria- People getting scared over something, which causes more people to get scared over that same thing, which blows up across an area and everybody is scared of the same thing

    ReplyDelete
  9. Ethan - Kenny - Riley

    Cultural Hysteria - An idea/rumor that gets spread across an area, which causes fear and panic.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Nash, Kassi, and Aiden

    Cultural Hysteria: A mass panic in a community caused by a chain of rumors

    ReplyDelete
  11. Julia,Lauren,Isabelle

    Cultural Hysteria: stems from the fear of seeing whats happening but not understanding the bigger picture of what it is actually about. Unknown terror.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Diego, Ashleigh, Brad, Caroline

    Cultural Hysteria - A fear that rises through a community, based on something often that was not meant to cause such a mass fear.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Cultural Hysteria: A widespread panic in a community based on rumors and previous ideas

    ReplyDelete
  14. All of the articles were based on something that was very far fetched and un likely to happen. People started to believe it because other people did and they all went along with it.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Jarred,Arielle, cailey
    Cultural Hysteria: a community acting irrational out of fear of something they don't understand.

    ReplyDelete