Today in class we built upon what we learned yesterday, which was introducing us to academic lenses. We not only had a brief recap on the different academic subjects we went over yesterday, but added more possible lenses to the list for subjects not offered at Sparta High School. The new lenses list we came up with included:
Criminal justice
Law
Science - physics, engineering, biomedical science
Fashion
Business
Religious studies
Technology
Health
History - cultural history
Moving onto the film, Back to the Future our assignment was to evaluate it through academic lenses and for it’s three act structure. While watching, students are strongly encouraged to be taking notes on the Lens Tweets assignment in classroom, or your own notes. Physical or digital notes are acceptable. For this assignment, there are two charts. The first part is the English/literary analysis. These should be in the form in a tweet, and discuss the three act structure. The comment on it should be identifying an act/part of it (the midpoint for example) and then state if it is effective. Students should try to avoid neutrality in this.
The second part of this assignment is a chart of an academic analysis. Similar to the first chat, these should be like tweets and students should write one tweet per day of watching the film. Each tweet should be from the perspective of a professional in one of the academic subjects. Students are not allowed to do the same subject twice. Also, it’s advised to choose a subject that will fit well into the film Back to the Future, such as engineering.
It is important to be practicing applying academic lenses to our film, so we will know how to do it effectively for future assignments. More specifically, senior papers are coming up after the break and students will have to apply academic lenses in their writing. What subject will depend on the major or interest of the individual, but this unit is building up to that. Really, to succeed academically in the future this skill is key.
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