Today in our session, Will reviewed the 5 core concepts of media literacy. Next, we discussed the information he learned from an article entitled, "What is Media in the Digital Age?". He was able to determine the key details in the article and recognized that digital literacy evolved from media literacy. We also explored the idea that media can be the messenger, the medium or the message. Will understands that defining media in the digital space is like trying to shoot a "moving target". After discussing the article, we discussed the core concepts of digital literacy. For homework, Will needs to look over his class notes. He is doing a great job on this relevant and timely topic.

We were to complete the novel.

Natalie studied Virginia Woolf today as we progress chronologically through British history. She read several pages of text explaining her life and major works, paraphrasing paragraph by paragraph. Following this, Natalie annotated and summarized the first portion of Woolf's famous, "A Room of One's Own."

Today, we started a unit on media literacy. This is the focus of a class he will be taking at Lynn University next year, and my goal is to give him the background knowledge he needs for future success. We began the unit with a discussion of the importance of being an educated consumer when it comes to media. Next, Will brainstormed the variety of media that we engage in every day. We also discussed the changes in media from print focused to digital. Then, Will took notes on the core concepts and questions of media literacy. The core concepts and concept questions guide a student to understand the purposes and uses of media in today’s society. For homework, Will was assigned to read an article, “What is Media in the Digital Age?”. He is going to read it once for the “gist” and the second time to underline central ideas for discussion at our next class. He did an awesome job today and was very engaged in our discussion.

Natalie is finished working on Heart of Darkness. She requested To Kill a Mockingbird for the remaining semester -- a very good choice. Today she began to read it and we have marked excellent vocabulary to remember. We watched a 1964 interview with the author who gave nice insight into her book as well as the movie that came out in 1960 with Greggory Peck. Natalie wrote a summary of what she has read so far that we discussed a bit for accuracy. She is also working on a next essay that is due in one week.

Hoping to complete our study of the novel.

Continue our study of the novel.

Double journal entries and final assessment/paper

Sam and I continued our study of the novel. Sam had not completed the assigned reading, so we needed to read the chapter together. We read and discussed chapter 11 commenting on theme and author's purpose. We began reading the last chapter. Sam needs to finish reading it on her own for homework.

Today Natalie is studying D. H. Lawrence and taking a quiz on the material. She is using the time today to hopefully complete the British Literature 'project' which is a Timeline of the great authors and works that she has studied chronologically so far this year. She is using an excellent resource online to help her accomplish this successfully.