9th Grade - The majority of the time was spent in the library, using the Graphic Life Map program provided to create a visual representation of the pivotal points students listed the day before. This took longer than intended because many students had difficultly printing, but everyone was able to complete the assignment.
3rd period had about 10 minutes left in our Futurama example of planned actions and complications in a plot line, so we finished this in class. 7th period had finished yesterday, so they had 10 minutes to read at the end of the day.
10th Grade - We continued our study of advertisement tactics and strategies, with students finishing their marketing projects and presenting them to the class. Students were asked to identify the strategies they used, where they had learned them, and how they felt their strategy was the one most likely to sell a product.
We also looked at the idea of product placement in media, and how technology changes the nature of advertisement (ex. personalized ads on the internet, Facebook using images of friends to promote a given product).
Finally, students were introduced to the concept of fallacy. In the examples we used (ads targeting teenagers), it is usually pretty easy to find the false logic. However, fallacies occur quite often in many other venues, and students took notes on the top 10 most common fallacies. For those that missed class, see me to get a copy of the notes.
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