--- title: "09.17.07" date: 2007-09-17 url: https://learningischange.com/2007/09/17/091707/ author: Ben Wilkoff categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"] tags: [] --- # 09.17.07 Core 1: - Write-on: How would you persuade someone visually? - Present persuasion Smart Notebook files. What do you notice about these ideas? - Reflect on the process of creating these presentations. - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=110876&doc=kw-persuasion543] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=110875&doc=sb-persuasion3517] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=110874&doc=akam-persuasion1347] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=110873&doc=jk-persuasion2590] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=110872&doc=oa-persuasion2489] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111282&doc=persuasion-grapes2148] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111283&doc=t-j-persuasion3023] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111285&doc=s-p-persuasion456] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111284&doc=s-persuasion3555] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111287&doc=j-d-persuasion905] - [flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=111286&doc=c-e-persuasion167] - Extensions: Answer the following question either on your blog or in your notebook: How do your persuasion tactics change when you are trying to change the minds of many people rather than just one. Class Notes: Core 2: - Discuss-On: Why do we make fun of things? - Read Onion Articles and establish definition of Satire and its characteristics in your notebook: [ADHDTV Satire](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/onionadhdtv.pdf) - [Halloween Satire](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Oniontrickortreat.pdf) - [Tag Body Spray Satire](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Tagonion.pdf) - Discussion Questions: What are these articles making fun of/criticizing? How are they doing it? - Why are they targeting these particular aspects of society? - What can you do with satire (such as these) that you cannot do with other genres of writing? - Extensions: Which social topic do you think deserves to be made fun of? How are you going to exaggerate it in order to change it? Core 3: - Share-On: Prove to at least 3 other people that the tradition you believe is a “lottery” truly is sacrificing individual needs for group needs. - Answer the areas of [the anticipatory 1940s Information Web](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/web.JPG) with one other person (or on your own) by participating in a 30-minute expert presentation. Search for important information about the 1940s in the areas outlined in the Information web. - Write about and use images from what you find in Smart Notebook. - Save the file to the Students server folder (in the 30 Minute Experts folder.) Class Notes: [![modernloteries_1.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/academyofdiscovery.com/bhwilkoff/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/modernloteries_1.thumbnail.jpg?w=1225)](https://i0.wp.com/academyofdiscovery.com/bhwilkoff/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/modernloteries_1.jpg) Core 4: - Highlight-on: Read through your discussions with your partner and highlight/circle the most important points. Write out or rephrase anything that is a good idea but needs to be reworked somehow. - Discuss the generalizations about change: **The Five Generalizations/Truths of change.** ***Change is linked to time.*** How is change linked to time? - Are all changes linked to time in the same way? - How do some of the changes you listed relate to time?** ** - ***Change may be positive or negative.*** What is progress? - Does change always represent progress? - How might a change be thought of as both positive and negative?** ** - ***Change may be perceived as orderly or random.*** Can we predict change? - Select specific changes from your list, and describe which aspects of them can be predicted and which are unpredictable. - Even when we know a change will take place, can we always predict exactly how things will turn out? - ***Change is everywhere.*** Does change apply to all areas of our world? - What are some specific changes which are universal, or happen everywhere, and some specific changes that may apply to only a small area at a given time?** ** - ***Change may happen naturally or be caused by people.*** What causes change? - What influence do people have over changes in nature? - What influence does nature have over the changes people intended? - (Really Number 3) Extensions: After all of our work with change today, answer the following question in your writer’s notebook or on your blog: How are change and persuasion related? Class Notes: [![change-discussion_1.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/academyofdiscovery.com/bhwilkoff/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/change-discussion_1.thumbnail.jpg?w=1225)](https://i0.wp.com/academyofdiscovery.com/bhwilkoff/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/change-discussion_1.jpg)