Daily Log Blog 3/28/17

Mr.Rivers opened up class by saying how important reflection is and how it can help you really get to know what you found out in class and how you can apply it to your learning experience. We then transitioned into the theory of ¨curiosity¨ and how teachers can provoke students into being curious. Independently, we looked at a picture for three minutes and were told to write down what we noticed. Our group came up with the idea that at the top its a religious leader and then as you look below it has layers. Film really uses image to create an idea which is what this picture is doing. Mr. Rivers then told us that this picture was from medieval times and that it is named ¨The Great Chain of Being¨, the language is in Latin or older Greek, Hell is on the bottom and is it equals bad things. There are also tiers and they are divided but they are also tied to the top. Mr.Rivers then asked us to relate this picture to the genre comedy. Our class came up with the top being cosmos and the bottom is chaos. Mr. Rivers then told us to make a theme about cosmos and how this picture demonstrates that idea. Our group came up with the theme that the people closest to the top hold the power to maintain the structure of the world. Mr.Rivers then wanted to read us a story and wanted us to find what the story is saying about cosmos. The story was by BJ Novak and it was about a principal who wanted to get rid of math and just read and write all day. By the end of the story the principal got fired and moved to a Florida and just wrote and read all day.