F20CEC5- Part 2

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Week three.

This is Ah, Class five, part one.

We're gonna be doing class five and six on our

second reading, which you can see is related to something

political. Or at least it seems political.

Because Elizabeth Warren, the title is about America punishing Elizabeth

Warren on Elizabeth Warren, You might know is a senator

in the United States and from Massachusetts, and she's That's

the Northeast of the US things story is related to

her. She she ran for president to be the president.

United States.

So we're gonna We're gonna learn something about her while

we practiced this week's skills.

Okay? And I think hopefully you you kind of got

into the groove.

You understand?

Uh, what what the class is going to do, You

know, when we study are articles each week.

So we're just gonna follow the same pattern from last

week, So let's get right into it.

Okay, so we're gonna begin with our introduction activity because

we want toe.

We wanna again begin wide.

Like like we have talked about last week.

Our intro activity, of course, is the purpose is to

consider that the context and the source the topic again.

These air more general things that are related just basically,

uh, just is just basically related to the topic.

But really the source And where that where this article

comes from so again, before we even begin with before

we even start reading the article, we should think about

these things because you're gonna see this week in this

Weeks article with this approach, this wide approach this gets

us quite a long way into understanding what the authors

do it.

So it's very illustrated.

We say, Okay.

And again, we're gonna have some video here with five

questions this week for us to look at.

Um, this video is again on YouTube.

I know.

I say the word again a lot.

Doing it is way really?

Do things kind of repeatedly over and over in a

pattern. And and that's get for two reasons I'm set

again. Again.

That's for two reasons is because repeating things helps us

to kind of make it into a habit.

But it's also if we're repeating it when it whenever

an author repeats something in within their article, they that

tells you what's important.

So if if If the author feels like they have

to repeat an idea more than once, and certainly if

they could keep coming back to that basic idea, then

you know that that's what the authors you know, what

what part of their purpose is what they're trying to

say to you, because repeating tells you what's important.

So when I keep saying again again, it's because it's

important. It's something that is we can say its it

underpins what what we're trying to accomplish.

Okay, so this this this video is called Elizabeth Warren

announces she is ending her presidential campaign at this story

you could see comes from earlier this year.

Things have progressed a lot since then in the United

States, but But this is the presidential race that was

going on in earnest.

We're gonna talk about that expression.

It was going on in with a lot of energy

at the earlier in the year.

And Elizabeth Warren was part of that again.

She was a She was a ah, senator.

She still is Who was trying to become president.

United States for the Democrats.

Okay, I don't know how much you know about politics

in the United States.

but Elizabeth Warren and you might have heard before last

the last presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton are two of the few.

There's only been three ah, in the past three women

who have really gone up to take the nomination for

one of the two parties.

What that means is in the United States, we have

a basic two party system.

The Democrats and the Republicans are the ones who have

won every single race, going back quite a ways, quite

a ways in in American history.

So, really, if you're going T if you're going Teoh,

consider who might be the next president of the United

States. It has to be a Democrat or a Republican,

and there are a lot of problems with that.

I personally don't like that kind of two party system.

A lot of other countries have a much better chance

for different parties to feel there have ah, candidate who

could win.

But there are only two parties, and out of those

two parties, only one party, the Liberal Party, has had

women come to the top and have a chance to

be nominated to be, you know, to be the representative

off their party to be president.

And so Elizabeth Warren was also for the Democrats, Democrat

and liberal Democrat.

So we're gonna watch Ah, a little bit about her

talking about why the decision she made to quit to

stop trying to be the president for the Democrats that

tried to be the Nominate, the nominee for the Democrats.

Okay, so look at these five questions.

The first one is what does Warren mean when she

says, Uh, she moved just just a little.

What she helped to do was she moved just a

little in their notion of what a president of the

United States should look like.

You're going to hear her say that that that's kind

of what she feels like has happened with her influence,

that the idea has moved.

The people have moved just a little in their notion.

And number two, what has been Warren's fight of my

life, she says.

This is the fight of her life.

Why did she say that?

What is it and why does she say, Number three?

What is Warren's response to the reporter who asked your

question when she says We're left with two white been

for candidates?

What's your response to that The again.

As you might know in American politics, after Elizabeth Warren

dropped out, there were really only two candidates, one free

each party.

Now, of course, Trump.

I don't like saying his name Trump for the Republicans

and and Joe Biden for the Democrats.

So both of them are old white men in their

seventies So that the reporter specifically asked Warren, of course,

use a woman.

What? What does she think about that?

That there were left with two white men for candidates.

Number four.

What does Warren say she was doing 10 years ago?

And why does she say it?

So she talks about it Kind of his street from

10 years before.

And why is she What does she say about that?

And why do you think?

And Number five is Do you think a woman will

ever be president of Korea?

Why, or why not?

Okay, so I'd like you to go go in again.

You can go stop this video and you can go

to the top of the cyber campus.

You can see the video for this week's warm up,

and you can you can click on that and watch

it as many times as you like this.

This is our warm up activity.

So you need Teoh.

Excuse me?

You need to watch the video as many times as

you need to and then discuss with your group like

we did last week just to start warming up on

this topic.

Um, And again, these five questions are what I would

like you to discuss together.

So a lot of students have been asking me about

how to do discussions, different kinds of questions about discussions,

Uh, all of our discussions that we do, whether it's

the article plus five question, you know, the warm up

plus five questions or the questions questions.

And that's actually what I call all right using quotations

because it's called the Questions Discussion Board and the purpose

discussion boards.

All the discussion boards are meant toe, Have you guys

together? You three.

Most of some of you might have a group of

four, but you you three get together And you can

you just discuss the these questions or whatever the topic

is, or whatever you need to discuss and it doesn't

have to be done where one student kind of puts

their their questions or their answers to the questions.

And then another student puts theirs, and then another puts

their So you can you know, each student's work.

It's separate.

I don't want that at all.

That's that's just kind of that would be a way

of just kind of meeting the requirement for me.

Like you like, You want me to be able to

see that you worked this much?

You worked this much?

I don't need that on what I'm going to do

later, when I'm looking at whether you participate it and

how to give you grades for participation.

I'm just looking that you have a good discussion and

you all are kind of equally talking basically.

So I'm not going to go check one person at

a time and see what they're what they're You know,

what their effort Waas.

What I'm doing is opening up each group for each

activity and I'll look and see what kind of discussion

you have.

Did you guys all kind of take part and were

you all kind of, you know, responding back and forth

to each other So it's not necessary for for you

guys to separate your you're a part in the discussions.

Just have a normal discussion like you would in the

classroom, because that's what this discussion page is supposed to

be mimicking.

These discussions are supposed to be just like you were

sitting in a group in the classroom and you're just

talking about these things together, trying to figure them out.

Okay, except of course, you're doing it in writing.

Or like I said, you can record.

Your voice is you can you can report it and

put an audio reporting up there where you can put

a video.

If you want to use Zoom, you could actually have

little zoom meetings or Google meat meeting, and then you

just discuss together and then you put a link to

that again.

I'm open to any style you like, but I'm not

really that strict about checking each individual route.

Persons amount of work.

I'm not making sure that everything is just like that.

What? What I'm doing is just basically discussed checking your

discussion as as a general participation in your group.

Okay, so go ahead on watch this video and do

the warm up questions.

The five here with your group and then come back

to this video.

Okay. All right.

I assume you've already gone through and heard Elizabeth Warren

speak. I like it was Elizabeth Warren.

I have to say I actually voted for her in

the primary.

I thought she was the best candidate.

Her and Bernie Sanders.

I'm kind of that kind of tells you if you

know anything about politics in states where I stand.

Uh, okay, what?

We need to focus on this week, though, for skills.

Now that we're kind of warmed up on the topic.

And again, this that that warm up is gonna help

you a lot more than you think.

Just by getting an idea of who Elizabeth Warren is

and what she was.

You know what she was thinking when she was running

for president and when she had to drop out?

That's really setting.

We say that's kind of setting the groundwork.

It's it's setting the basis of what we need to

understand. To be able to get out what the articles

about what the author is trying to say.

Okay, so what?

We need to look at those specifically this week.

Last week, we looked at the kind of source of

the information.

And this week we're gonna build on that with the

audience. We want to think about the audience.

Okay, so why don't we focus on the audience?

How does that help us?

And again, this audience, we can consider the audience in

in anything that we do the audience for a movie,

the audience for, ah TV show or the audience for

radio show.

Or, you know, the audience for an article like ours.

So it applies to any kind of media the same

thing. What we learned from this is we could weaken,

weaken, realize something called again.

It's related to framing that we've talked about something called

Cocoon E.

Have you heard of the cocoon?

I think you know what cocoon is.

What Famously insects used cocoons to be able to change

to a different kind of creature, right?

We call that a metamorphosis, right?

So that the most famous example is the kind of

killer who, you know, comes walking around, eats lots of

leaves, mark overboard and gets very fat, and then hangs

from a A branch and then covers itself completely in

a good food.

And inside it goes through a lot of different changes.

And of course, you know what comes out at the

end. Boom.

The wings come out in, the butterfly goes so that

cocoon, the idea of a cocoon is that you're completely

surrounded and you can't really You're not really exposed to

things outside of your cocoon.

You're just seeing and hearing and understanding.

So your whole world kind of becomes your the framing

of your life or the framing of whatever this you

know that you're exposed to It gets smaller and smaller,

smaller until it's it's very narrow.

And a lot of times we don't realize that, of

course, the biggest kind of cocooning or framing is culture.

Uh, this is why they say traveling.

The best part about traveling is that you learn more

about yourself than anything that you see on your trip.

And the reason why is when you go away from

your own culture and you look and you look back,

you see another culture you're going into kind of another

cocoon kind of big.

Of course, it's not much of a cocoon of culture

is a big giant thing, is a lot of variety,

but But the point is you're you're in a new

frame, that new cultural frame that you experience when you

travel. When you go back to your own, you know,

net country from where you're from, you realize, Oh, wow.

I didn't realize that that there was a frame there

that other countries don't do it don't have this spring.

They they're more this way or that way, or our

country's kind of bigger or smaller.

And so you learn a lot about yourself and about

how things air kind of framed for you by your

culture. Okay?

And so cocooning is kind of a problem with that.

We're talking about that in part two.

F20CEC5- Part 2

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