GNED 102

Group Presentations

Group One

Your group’s focus is the self and education.  What kinds of things does our popular culture have to say about education?  About learning? About how we learn best?  What kinds of things we should strive to learn? What are some metaphors or stories that illustrate pop culture’s views on education?  

How do these pop culture views intersect with the views expressed in our essays this semester?  What do our writers have to say about education?  Point to passages in the book that illustrate your answer.

Do you agree?  What are your views on education?  See if you can come to a group consensus.  If not, have each member explain his or her views.

Your final project will be a ten to fifteen minute oral presentation in which each group member should play a part.  Make sure you answer all of the questions above in the presentation, and think of creative ways to show these concepts to the class.  A short role-play piece or skit, use of visual aids, clips of movies, and song lyrics are examples of how you might better solidify these ideas for us.

Group Two

Your group’s focus is the self and nature.  How does popular culture tend to think about nature?  What should we learn from it?  How should we relate to it?  You will want to investigate ideas about science as well: what has scientific progress done to the way we humans view our role in the universe?  What does pop culture have to say about what that role is?  What are some metaphors or stories you can refer to to illustrate this? 

Next, point to passages in the book that illustrate the opinions of our authors on these same questions.  What do they think about nature’s role in our lives, and how do their opinions relate to what pop culture tells us?

Try to come to a group consensus: with which of these views on nature do you agree?  Why?  Disagree?  Why?  If you can’t come to a consensus, have each member explain his or her views.

Your final project will be a ten to fifteen minute oral presentation in which each group member should play a part.  Make sure you answer all of the questions above in the presentation, and think of creative ways to show these concepts to the class.  A short role-play piece or skit, use of visual aids, clips of movies, and song lyrics are examples of how you might better solidify these ideas for us. 

Group Three

Your group’s focus is the self and community.  How does popular culture tend to think about the self’s place in the community?  What does the individual owe to his or her community?  What does the community owe to the individual?  What are some metaphors or stories you can refer to to illustrate this? 

Next, point to passages in the book that illustrate the opinions of our authors on these same questions.  What do they think about the individual’s role in the community, and how do their opinions relate to what pop culture tells us?

Try to come to a group consensus: with which of these views on nature do you agree?  Why?  Disagree?  Why?  If you can’t come to a consensus, have each member explain his or her views.

Your final project will be a ten to fifteen minute oral presentation in which each group member should play a part.  Make sure you answer all of the questions above in the presentation, and think of creative ways to show these concepts to the class.  A short role-play piece or skit, use of visual aids, clips of movies, and song lyrics are examples of how you might better solidify these ideas for us. 

Group Four

Your group’s focus is the self and the sacred.  What are some of popular culture’s ideas on the sacred?  What is sacred?  How does our popular culture think others should find what is sacred to them?  What do we do once we find it?  What are some metaphors or stories that illustrate these views? 

Look at our essays and think about what our writers have to say about the sacred.  How do their different opinions relate to what popular culture tells us?  Point to passages in the book that illustrate the writers’ opinions.

Then try to come to a group consensus: with which of these views on the sacred do you agree?  Why?  Disagree?  Why?  If you can’t come to a consensus, have each member explain his or her views.

Your final project will be a ten to fifteen minute oral presentation in which each group member should play a part.  Make sure you answer all of the questions above in the presentation, and think of creative ways to show these concepts to the class.  A short role-play piece or skit, use of visual aids, clips of movies, and song lyrics are examples of how you might better solidify these ideas for us.