Week 4

Date

Class Meeting

For Next Class

Mon, 1/28

Discuss Friedman & globalization

  • pre-reading questions (group discussion)
  • post a couple questions of your own
  • in pairs, prepare a brief explanation of the 10 flatteners

 

 

in place of a face-to-face class on Wednesday, post a response to the Friedman reading and a few possible project 2 topics

for Friday, read chs 3, 4, and "The Quiet Crisis" (which is either ch 7 or ch 8, depending on your edition) 

 

Wed, 1/30

NO FACE-to-FACE class

But please do the following activity sometime on Wednesday:

post a response to the Friedman reading and a couple possible project #2 topics: prompt 

 

for Friday, read Friedman, chs 3, 4 and "The Quiet Crisis" (which is either ch 7 or ch 8, depending on your edition)   

Fri, 2/1

 

Introduce Project #2 and possible topics

Introduce Project Reflection Document for Project #1

Friedman, cont'd

  • interesting points from Wed responses (type of book; balance of opinion/ information)
  • finish flatteners
  • "locks" and "keys"
for Monday
  1. Bring first draft of employment project to class for peer review/ editing
  2. Review ch 12 ("revising and editing") and read ch 9 (on style) in TCT

 

Pre-reading questions

Put aside the Friedman reading for a second (if you didn't do it, this activity is your chance to shine) and think about the 4 questions below:

1. What do you associate with globalization?

2. What are some good things about globalization? Bad things?

3. In your personal opinion, is globalization mostly exciting or mostly scary?

4. How do you think your grandparents (or favorite older person) would answer question 3?