Thursday/Friday, September 24th/25th

 1. Review Costa's Level Questions- 

- What are the goals of Costa's Levels? 

- How does it apply to this class? 

2. Discussion on Asch and Milgrim experiments. 

3. "Boldly You" TedTalk 

4. Anticonformity (counterconformity): refers to when an individual consciously and deliberately challenges the position or actions of the group. Anticonformity is not merely the absence of conformity. Individuals who display anticonformity behaviours are internally motivated to disrupt the balance of the group.

5. March: Book 1- John Lewis  Read and take notes. March- Book 1 (24 pages)

March: Book One begins the trilogy of Representative John Lewis’s graphic novel memoire, co-written with his aide Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. It is a critically acclaimed best-seller that received the 2013 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and has been named one of the best books of 2013 by USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Horn Book, ComicsAlliance, and others.

Graphic Novel: a single narrative told through pictures and words. Graphic Novels feature the same key components of a traditional novel: they are full-length (over 100 pages), follow a common narrative thread, and are meant to be read as a single story (or story within a finite series).

Graphic Novel Terms

Things to consider in the first pages of March:  (These are to go into notes... ) 

• How is time being treated in the novel? Consider the effects of where the book starts and how it moves through time.
• On page 1, we see people walking on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the first words we read are: “Can you swim?” Discuss why these are actually very powerful words to begin with. 
• How do you see the tension between conformity and anticonformity work in this book? How do these ideas present themselves in the book- look beyond just the "results" of these ideas.. look to motivation behind results/actions. 
• Consider characterization of Lewis. Characterization is the manner in which the author develops a character. How are Lewis' actions in the means of conformity/anticonformity part of his indirect characterization? (Meaning what we can learn about him through how he conforms/does not). 
• What are the effects of the choices of employing the graphic novel structure/style? How does this manner in telling this story affect its reception? 

6. Post-Class reflection- SCHOOLOGY. Due by the end of Friday, September 25th.