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).
- 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?
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.
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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.
3. BRING IN STICKY NOTES. We shall hoard them like they're going out of style.
Anthony, Chris, Abby- We fear a lot of culture after anything bad happens in the world (or anything in general).
ReplyDeleteHenry CJ And Tori
ReplyDeleteWhen a large group of people are deathly afraid of something strange and out of the ordinary and cannot control their fear.
Mya, Angela, Lauren B.
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria: mass panic when questions cannot be answered.
Garret, Chris, Noah
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria mass controversy over something unexpected.
Garret, Chris, Noah
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria mass controversy over something unexpected.
Gwynne, Kaylee, Elle
ReplyDeleteCultural hysteria is an uncontrollable outburst of fear and emotion in a community
Preston, Riley, Deven
ReplyDeleteCultural hysteria- People are afraid of an exaggerated event that doesn't have a logical explanation behind it.
Caleb, Ian, Erker
ReplyDeleteCultural 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
Ethan - Kenny - Riley
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria - An idea/rumor that gets spread across an area, which causes fear and panic.
Nash, Kassi, and Aiden
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria: A mass panic in a community caused by a chain of rumors
Julia,Lauren,Isabelle
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria: stems from the fear of seeing whats happening but not understanding the bigger picture of what it is actually about. Unknown terror.
Diego, Ashleigh, Brad, Caroline
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria - A fear that rises through a community, based on something often that was not meant to cause such a mass fear.
Cultural Hysteria: A widespread panic in a community based on rumors and previous ideas
ReplyDeleteAll 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.
ReplyDeleteJarred,Arielle, cailey
ReplyDeleteCultural Hysteria: a community acting irrational out of fear of something they don't understand.