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Comunicación y Gerencia. First Term How and why do atrocities occur?. Workload (all terms). Read book per term Contrast texts (film and book) Investigate for essays Take notes Weekly quizzes on class books: All Quiet, Macbeth, Fight Club. Asessment. Comunicación y Gerencia.
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Comunicación y Gerencia FirstTerm How and why do atrocities occur?
Workload (all terms) • Read book per term • Contrast texts (film and book) • Investigate for essays • Take notes • Weekly quizzes on class books: All Quiet, Macbeth, Fight Club
Asessment Comunicación y Gerencia • Contribute to discussions (10% of grade) • Read thirty minutes a night (Minimum) • Quizzes assess reading of book (20%) • Two Productions per term (10%) • Two essays per term (20%) • Responses to text (20%) • Talk in groups (20%)
Term 1 • Term 1 – What is the nature of atrocity in war? • Text – All Quiet on the Western Front • Literary Analysis, World history, Peace Initiative • Interdisciplinary with World History • All classes • Supporting texts: Heart of Darkness, Various anti-war texts (Lit circles) • Films analyzed: Apocalypse Now, Come and See (Russ), Passiondale
Term 2 • Macbeth: what is the root cause of evil? • Text(s): Shakespeare’s play, three versions of the play on film: Australian (modern gang style) American (PBS done in Soviet era) Shakespeare retold (Hells Kitchen) Supporting texts – Freud, H.P Lovecraft Steven King, Edgar Allen Poe
Satire as a political tool • Can someone change peoples mind through comedy • Support: Woody Allen, Stephen Lecock, • Film Texts – Great Dictator, Catch 22
Connector* • All descriptors are subsumed