Supplementary Materials and
Resources for Podcast 29 - Collaborations
with mentor teacher Anne: notes from the first focus class
mySF Project: Collaborations with the mentor teacher - notes
from the focus class
This page supports Podcast 29 of the mySF Project blog and podcast
series, found at
http://www.pataphysics.net.au/mysf_project/mysf_podcasts/index.html
You
can find the full script for Podcast 29 at
http://www.pataphysics.net.au/mysf_project/mysf_scripts/index.html
Notes
here were made by Anne during the first focus class, with the class of
English,
Year 8, Level 1 in mid-morning, 19 November, 2009. Anne's notes follow based
exactly from her observations of student/teacher discussion during the focus
class,
written as dot points:
Reminders of the last class - looked at the depressing
post-apocalyptic quotes
What did they mean? What were the main ideas?
Tells the class only a pen is required.
Duty of humans after catastrophe - repopulate, survive
Ethical - moral duty
We kill in order to live
Running movies - answer the questions on the sheet
Try to find out what the message is - especially the last two
categories on the sheet
'Last Man on Earth' - Vincent Price
'Omega Man' - another last man on Earth - Charlton Heston
Survivors stay/ work together to survive
'The World, the Flesh and the Devil'
Racial conflict, who will get the girl? Who will repopulate?
Life continues as usual, music and all
'The Quiet Earth'
"The end of the world is just the beginning". Two band together
to help the world survive.
Visual literacy - you work it out from what you see.
'I am Legend' - Will Smith: routine, recreation, survival
"God didn't do this, we did".
Text for his thoughts, "I am the last human alive".
Five minutes to reflect with your neighbour and compare results.
Results:
Results from around the room
Was there disagreement?
What was hardest to fill out? Look at what the survivors learnt
about themselves and their worlds".
Themes and purposes:
Look at themes collected in the exercise
Five minutes to discuss themes to make a statement about them
Write a summative paragraph on back of sheet
Themes and purposes of post-apocalyptic fiction
What are writers and directors teaching their audiences?
Ask questions around room to see what they came up with. Ask
clarifying questions.
On back of sheet, one paragraph about something that combined
all the movies, about the themes and purposes of the movie.
Cluster ideas:
To see if they all had the same ideas with 'Inspiration'
Survival, make you feel as if you are in a situation, warning
about the future; what would you do to survive, what will you do to help
mankind survive; trying to get money
Deep knowledge:
Identified and reviewed students 'prior knowledge'
Drawing out where the students were to go in terms of big
picture themes /purpose
p
ends
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