Archive for October 2014

Why? Students are studying the Hero’s Journey during their final Unit, and are being asked to analyze examples of heroes who passed through the stages of the journey, both fictional and real. While we have focused on fiction throughout the term, students will have an opportunity to study a real, local hero by actually exploring…

Why? This term we are studying design, and how to make things better. The purpose of this FE is to io introduce the class to professional designers, and to get them to start thinking like designers. How? To do this, we will be touring the gravitytank office, talking to professional designers and completing a design/empathy…

Why? Students engage experts about labor unions and labor laws.

Why? Unit 2 of Rhetoric is focused on rhetoric that unites, and the students have studied speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Barack Obama, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Students have also been practicing evaluating other media, specifically visual art, for rhetorical devices. Studying different kinds of texts has been eliciting insights and…