Projects, Power, and Empathy: February 2, 2018

Focus: What can we learn about power and empathy by watching each other's Harlem Renaissance projects?

1. Warming up by finalizing and reflecting upon your virtue charts:

Level 1: How'd you do? What were your successes and failures? What was the process like for you?

Level 2: Franklin believed the charting his virtues in a rational, scientific manner improved his moral character. Are you a better person now than you were before you started this chart? Explain your thinking.

Level 3: Our semester focus is about power: Who has power, and how is power obtained? Can you make any larger connections between this virtue chart and individual/social power?

If you handwrote your chart, please either turn it in now or take a picture and share it with me.

2. Watching and commenting on each other's videos; start with your blogging buddies, then watch whichever ones you'd like to (also, if anyone wants to show theirs on the big screen, now's the time)

• What did you learn about this person from watching his or her video?
• What worked for you?
• Questions you'd like to ask?
• Make a connection to our semester focus: What is the relationship between power and empathy in America?

3. Introducing you to the Empathy Monologues

• Create a new Google folder: "Empathy Monologues" (inside 2nd semester folder).

• Click HERE for the overview.

• Click HERE for the exercises.

HW:
1. Please spend about 20 minutes with the exercises we started in class. We will continue with them on Monday, and I will grade them Monday right after class.

2. If you have your own copy of Fences, please start bringing it to class on Monday.