Notes from last class/read down to other posts for due dates

Hello All,

Last day we went over a macrocosmic look at that upon which we have been focussing. We looked at conceptual models/paradigms  as a means for conveying meaning. It would be good for you to think in terms of these for your Pecha Kucha images. 

We discussed how our paradigms  inform/build our mythologies and noted that when we live according to these paradigms/mythologies/stories about 'the way things are', we make them real/active.
As an example we looked at the actions that might follow if we had/have as a paradigm/conceptual model, an image of humans at the centre of or above all other things on the planet. If we live with this paradigm, we make certain choices and those choices have far reaching effects.

Please take a look at previous posts but remember:
Pecha Kucha Topic/citations/outline due: May 3

Conceptual models:

·      Hero’s journey/cycle.

·      Wheel (with PK or protagonist at centre and all others as spokes)

·      Web (with PK and other characters Or Protagonist and others interconnected and inter-related/rhythm at one part in the web reverberates)

·      Gears (similar to above but with the notion that each character’s move creates/generates change in the other)

·      Critical theories /Symbols/ metaphor/ objective correlatives

Each of the above offers a useful paradigm or pattern for understanding/perceiving things.

par·a·digm

ˈperəˌdīm/

noun

1.             1.

technical

a typical example or pattern of something; a model.

"there is a new paradigm for public art in this country"

synonyms:

model, pattern, example, exemplar, template, standard, prototype, archetype "why should your sets of values be the paradigm for the rest of us?"

Structural Tools

Methods of organizing.(Think about the first unit of unusual essays we did)/

·      TAG/PEEc

·      Chronological

·      Comparison

·       Third/ first /shifting narrative voice

·      Flashback

·       appeal to authority

·      Argument/persuasion

·      Aside

many many more

The Power of One notes responding to ch.10/11 ?s

1.     If you fail to use TAG and PEE you will fail to receive above 3.5/5 for your paragraphs with me and on the provincial it may be worse 3 or 4 on 6.

2.     Take care to ensure that you are answering the question that was asked.

3.     Take care to answer the entire question. (If the question is 2 parts then there ought to be 2 elaborated parts to your answer.)

4.     Take care with precise wording. Sometimes when we rush or are tired we write things that are erred, self-evident, or too general/vague such that they are meaningless.

Who is who?:

·      Holland (place)

·      Dutch (language)

·       Boer (means farmer in Dutch/what they called themselves when they got to SA)

·      Africaner(Dutch people who settled in SA also called this.

·       Africaans- the language that evolved in SA as a derivation of Dutch spoken by the Boers.

·      The Dutch/Boer/Africaner people were white (of course until they married/blended with people of colour like Trevor Noah (comedian) who is a bi-racial person from SA .

·      Zulu (language and a people) black South Africans (Nanny’s tribe)

·      Shangaan (language and a people) black South Africans (Dee and Dum’s Tribe)

·      Ndebele (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Sotho (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Xhosa (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Tswana(language and a people) black South Africans

·      Pedi (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Tsonga (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Pondo (language and a people) black South Africans

·      Swati (language and a people) black South Africans

There are more.

British/English Caucasian from England.

Uitlanders Various language and cultural groups including South Asian and Chinese as well as others from the Americas who came to SA as a result of the Gold Rush.

All of these folks call SA home. They are something South African together but are distinct and the history of trying to get along is long and ongoing.