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Please silently read for 10 minutes. If you check out or brought a physical book you may relocate within the room.

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10/23/2019

-Silent Reading

-Building Empathy

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What types of things are censored? List as many as you can with your group and try to have an example for each.

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  • Books- “The Hate You Give”
  • Movies- Brokeback Mountain
  • Speech- Colin Kaepernick
  • Information- the internet in China
  • Clubs- Gay, Straight Alliance, PRISM
  • Education- Mexican American, Chicano Studies
  • Music- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds- The Beatles
  • Sculpture- Michelangelo's David

Examples

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Why are things censored? What are the reasons? List as many as you can with your group and try to have an example for each.

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Reasons

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Who is impacted by censorship?

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Who censors?

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What factors play a role in their decision to censor?

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What are the different types of censorship?

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Problem: Information is being restricted.

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Challenge: What can you do about it?

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Now you will teach yourself/group how to conduct a proper interview. Go to Classroom and open the doc in the “Building Empathy” and complete it with your group. Although you are working together, each of you is required to fill it out.

*This is a graded activity. Please refer to the attached rubric.

Building Empathy

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When you are finished go to the Whole Group Empathy doc and put one question per category. Do not duplicate questions. If a group has already put the questions you chose then write another.

Building Empathy: Interview Questions

  1. Board Member
  2. Parent
  3. Teacher
  4. Student
  5. Screenwriter
  6. Other

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Form a group of four and sit with them. Be inclusive while forming a group. Fill in the closest six tables. You have 3 minutes.

Groups

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Interview

Procedures

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Today we are going to be interviewing a Colorado Legislator. Let’s review a bit about what makes a good interview.

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Legislator Interview

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What should we do before/during/after an interview?

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Process for Today

First make a shared google doc in which you can all type.

Your teacher will assign your group numbers of questions to ask.

As a group you will rotate who asks questions and who takes notes.

Second, assign who is doing what during what part.

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“Try your best to get word for word quotes!”

These will be great evidence.

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Are you ready? Do you have any questions for your teacher before starting?

Interview Time

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Content Questions

  1. What is your full name? How do you spell it?
  2. How long have you been a Colorado Legislator?
  3. Have you ever dealt with a piece of legislation that contains censorship?
  4. As a legislator, when do you think censorship is appropriate and not appropriate?
  5. Has the state of Colorado engaged in censorship in the past?
  6. What is your experience with censorship professionally and personally?
  7. In your roles as a legislator and a parent do you have different or conflicting opinions about censorship?
  8. Who decides what schools can teach and can't teach?
  9. What personal experience do you have with being censored?
  10. Do you think there is ever a time where censorship is necessary?
  11. Being in the government, do you feel that things are kept from you?
  12. Do you think the government keeps things from its citizens?
  13. How do you feel about our school board banning scary stories?
  14. Do you think schools should have the power to tell kids what they can and cannot read/teach?
  15. Have you ever had information withheld from you that you felt you needed to make a good decision?

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Building Empathy: Legislator Interview Questions

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After

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Interview

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Make a plan for how different quotes or answers could be used to be persuasive.

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As you are analyzing, our parents are here for any follow up questions you might have as a group!

How can you use that information?

Can you categorize the information you got?

What information seems super great?

What information doesn’t seem so useful?

What information do you think you still need?

What information did you gain?

Read Through Your Notes

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To our parents for taking time out of their day to be here!

Say Thanks!

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Homework

  • Read an hour and a half per week outside of class.
  • Update your quote slides
  • The Building Empathy exercise is due Wednesday, October 31st.