9:15 - 11:50 D Block Social and Environmental Science
12:30 - 3:05 A Block Criminology
D Block Social and Environmental Science - All Benton today...YAY! With Benton, in 145, you'll be looking at soil as a product of the 4 spheres, working on a diagram and discussion along with the composition and process of formation of soils (continuing with the diagram along with some definitions – use to guide lab). Next, you'll head outside for some soil profile investigations and then you'll do a lab of local soil composition (Sand/Silt/Clay breakdown) along with soil testing for structure and nutrients. Finally you'll look at Enviro-Assess for Vanier, example cores and analysis.
A Block Criminology - Remember, over the next few weeks we'll look at Mass Media Theories and Media Literacy. Today we'll look at the elements of Media Literacy...Today we
continue with our unit on media literacy. Remember I want you to track your consumption of
media for one day. Yesterday I asked you to estimate how much time of the day you think
you consume and interact with media. So for you...at the end of
each chunk of time (6 am to 9 am; 9 am to 3 pm; 3 pm to 6 pm; 6 pm to midnight; and if necessary midnight to sleepy time) that you are awake for one day I'd like you to write down what media
format you interacted with for that time and guesstimate how much time
you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and
that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you
can about what you consume/interact with.
Today I'd like to watch the Batman: The Animated Series Two Face (part 1) and Two Face (Part II). These episodes provide an alternate origin story to Harvey Dent / Two Face than the movie The Dark Knight. There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’s major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring.
Today I'd like to watch the Batman: The Animated Series Two Face (part 1) and Two Face (Part II). These episodes provide an alternate origin story to Harvey Dent / Two Face than the movie The Dark Knight. There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’s major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring.
From Talking Comic Books... Perhaps the most standout moment in Two-Face Parts 1 & 2 is the reveal of Two-Face. Having been badly scarred and evoking Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Batman (1989), Dent screams for a mirror, before stumbling out from the Hospital room. As his fiance walks towards him, lighting flashes behind him, before revealing his newly scarred visage to her. Like the Universal Monster movies of the 1930s, this sequence demonstrates the operatic monstrosity, the unleashed anger and, perhaps most of all, the tragedy that sits at the character’s core...Gothic literature at its core. Part One can be seen here
When we finish the episode we'll try to make sense of what messages the episode tries to pass on to its audience (remember the audience is children), what the episode says of crime and what mass media theory we can use to explain how the creators (Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski) and writers (Alan Burnett and Randy Rogel) presented their ideas.
When we finish the episode we'll try to make sense of what messages the episode tries to pass on to its audience (remember the audience is children), what the episode says of crime and what mass media theory we can use to explain how the creators (Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski) and writers (Alan Burnett and Randy Rogel) presented their ideas.
The animated series was a sort of watershed for crime serial animation in that it was styled after a "film noir" format (a gritty and dark Hollywood genre of crime dramas from the 1940's and 1950's). This episode is almost 25 years old (yep from 1992) and is a brilliant example of a cartoon series taking its audience seriously. It provided gripping, intelligent, and compelling episodes that did not shy away from important issues and was adept at examining crime from a criminology perspective (It even won an Emmy award in 1993 for "Outstanding Animated Program - for the episode "Robin's Reckoning"). It is sophisticated, mature, artistic, and faithful to the Batman cannon.
So when we finish the episodes we'll try to make sense of what messages they try to pass on to its audience (remember it's children), what the episode says of crime and what mass media theory we can use to explain how the creators (Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski) and writers (Alan Burnett and Randy Rogel) presented their ideas.
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