2)+Language


 * Wednesday 14th/Thursday 15th December**

Watch/listen to news reports/documentaries


 * Thursday 8th December**

Continue discussion of techniques used by news media: http://www.cracked.com/article_18458_6-subtle-ways-news-media-disguises-bullshit-as-fact.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI Activity: Write a newspaper article/make a video documentary using these techniques in order to misrepresent some story or event Complete for homework


 * Wednesday 7th December**

Continue working on documentary


 * Thursday 1st December**

Listen to political speeches

Introduce criteria for assessing newspaper articles. Apply to following article:


 * Wednesday 30th November**

Listen to newspaper articles Discussion of video media techniques: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI

Activity: Make a 5-10 minute documentary misrepresenting AISK


 * Wednesday 23rd November/no Thursday class (thanksgiving)**

http://www.cracked.com/article_18458_6-subtle-ways-news-media-disguises-bullshit-as-fact.html

Activity: Write a newspaper article using all six of these techniques in order to misrepresent some story or event Complete for homework


 * Wednesday 16th November/no Thursday class (sportsfeva)**

Listen to political speeches prepared for homework.

Introduce criteria for assessing newspaper articles. Apply to following articles:


 * Wednesday/Thursday 9/10th November**

Watch advertisements created by students

Political speeches
 * Old Major's speech in //Animal Farm//
 * Barack Obama's victory speech in 2008

Homework: In groups of **up to four students**, choose one of the following scenarios and write a speech using as many of the 'rhetorical tools' as possible:
 * Hillary Clinton’s presidential victory speech
 * Sarah Palin’s presidential victory speech
 * Alexander Bustamante on Jamaica’s independence 6th August 1962
 * Andrew Holness or Portia Simpson-Miller (or someone else?) on 50th anniversary of independence 6th August 2012
 * another scenario of your own choosing
 * Speech to be delivered at the beginning of next class**. Alternatively, you can film it beforehand and show the video in class.


 * Wednesday/Thursday 2nd/3rd November**

Creating advertisements ... video, print or web-based ... **to be presented at beginning of next class**


 * Wednesday/Thursday 26/27th October**

Discuss Sapir-Whorf and Newspeak ... power of language to affect worldview

Advertisements and how they work ... activities

Homework:

With partner, prepare initial ideas on an advertisement ... video, print or web-based ... to be made in class next week.


 * Wednesday/Thursday 19/20th October**

Continue activities on meaning of language

Homework:

Find out about (a) **and** (b) below. Short quiz at the beginning of class next week.

a) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

b) George Orwell's 'newspeak' from //1984**:**// http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app


 * Wednesday/Thursday 5/6th October**

Quiz on origin of human language

Activities on meaning of language


 * Wednesday/Thursday 28/29th September**

Discuss question of 'animal language' based on homework reading.

Watch film about the nature of language.

Read the following document on the origin of human language in preparation for a short quiz next week:
 * Homework:**



(from Lagemaat pp.48-51)
 * Wednesday/Thursday 21st/22nd September**

What would we know if we had no language? (eg feral children, etc.)

What is language? - rule governed - intended - creative and open-ended


 * Homework:**

Read the following four documents and write a brief response to each of these two questions:

1) How could you define the difference between animal and human language? (100 words) 2) Do you think animal and human language are fundamentally different or essentially the same? (100 words)