• a formal response using structured (PEE) paragraphs
• a podcast
• a comment on this blog
• a reflective journal response
• a mindmap

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Assessment Task #1.

research-diagrams

For some great tips on writing feature articles and interviews with the four set directors find the post on ‘How to Write a Good Feature Article’ from March 2008 (use the archives).

language-techniques

We will use this handout as a starting point and the videos available on the Oxley College server.  To access or download the three videos (and other rich resources), look for the “English – Year 10 ” folder on the desktop of a school computer. Open the folder and double-click the “Click_me.htm” file.  You can now click the blue arrows for the first three scenes.

(Note: the three preceding links open a very small 3 – 5mg version of each film.  To access larger versions, log-on to a school computer and open the “Year 10 English” folder, open the “videos” sub-folder and open or download these three files: nunn_macbeths_death.mov, polanski_macbeths_death.mov, wright_macbeths_death.mov).

Compare/contrast the sequences in terms of the following criteria:

• Perspective – relating to character
• Knowing background circumstances
• Personality – essentially a good or bad person?
• Motives – reason for doing something
• How others influence the character?
• Language (“lexical chain” – groups of ideas) – the words the character says: words, how it is spoken (ambition, blood)
• Settings – dark/light, day/night, geographical & temporal choices, architecture, weather, use of space
• Structure – alterations to space (open and closed spaces, length of scenes), metaphor to camera angles, etc.
• Costumes – light/dark / colour, how they are worn, uniform,
• Actions –
• Characterisation – how the character is portrayed
• How the characters relate to each other – dynamics, time in scenes with with whom, how important to developing the plot
• Music and sound effects – harmony/disharmony,
• Props – realistic/representational

After you have analysed the sequences, rank each in terms of how heroic or how villainous Macbeth is. It might be useful to place them on a spectrum from hero at one end, to terrorist/villain at the other.

• Towards a Definition of Terrorism – Ayatullah Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali Taskhiri – Vol V No. 1 (Muharram 1408 AH/1987 CE)
• Terrorism: No Prohibition Without Definition – Suggests a clearly delineated definition
• The definition of terrorism – from the Guardian Unlimited – Raises many questions about the US state department’s definition
• Definition of Terrorism – by Carroll E. Payne Jr – Very brief definition offered by one individual
• FREEDOM FIGHTER: Dictionary Entry and Meaning – from hyperdictionary – Dictionary definition
• TERRORISTS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS – from the CBC News – Provides a comprehensive overview of the implications and the media’s use of the word.
• CIA’s Director of Central Intelligence Counterterrorist Center – Provides the definition used by the US

Timothy McVeigh

• The worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil: April 19, 1995
• What happened at Waco?
• Timothy McVeigh Timeline – from CNN / People Magazine
• Oklahoma City Bombing Remembered – by CNN
• Wounds remain for bombing victims six years later
• Imitating Turner – from Crime TV’s Crime Library

Possible Questions

1) Where was McVeigh in 1991?

2) What was inside the rental trucked parked outside the Murrah Building?

3) How did McVeigh support himself before the bombing?

4) What were Ruby Ridge and Waco and what impact did they have on McVeigh?

5) What happened to McVeigh in June, 2001?

The Black Panthers

• The Black Panther: Guerrilla War in the US
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion – from PBS’s Africans in America
• Racial Equality – from the White Camelia Knights (KKK)
• Fred Hampton
• from the Vision of the Black Panthers

Possible Questions

1) What were some of the most important of the 10 Points in the Panther’s program?
2) What were the reasons for the arrests of Black Panthers in 1967?
3) Are the Black Panthers and Nat Turner’s rebellions mostly similar or different? In what important ways?
4) By the end of 1969, how many children every day were fed through the efforts of the Black Panthers?
5) What happened to Fred Hampton in 1969? How many shots were fired and by whom?
6) What is the source for most of the references used by the KKK to argue for racial separation?
7) How did the Black Panthers’ see Democracy in America? Do you think this is reasonable and logical? Explain.

Task: So what is a terrorist?

Mindmap or list all the characteristics of a terrorist.” If you can show relationships among the qualities, that’s even better.