"Unfair Project" Our first step into diving into the perspective project was to think about the different stereotypes, judgements, and the different perspectives people give us. We did this by the "Unfair Project." In this project, we thought about the different labels that we would place on ourselves and the lables that others around us give us. We took photos of our faces and wrote these words all across our face to represent that this is what people think about when they see us.
"Serial" Podcast Listening to the podcast "Serial" was one of my favorite parts of this semester because of the storyline. "Serial," narrated by Sarah Koenig, examines the charges Adnan Syed was charged with for suposedly murdering his ex girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. One part that I really liked about listening to Serial was that at the end of each episode, we as a class would vote on if we thought that Adnan was guilty or innocent. It was interesting to listen to Sarah Koenig talk about Adnan's story as if it was her own. We also learned a lot about the American Justice System and how it can be unfair towards different people based on things like race. Listening to Serial was a great way to learn a lot about perspective because while listening to a murder case, there are a lot of different opinions and stories to consider that can effect your own personal opinions.
Lenses & "In Cold Blood" Critical Race Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Gender Theory, Feminist, and Reader Response. These are the few lenses that we have been reading the imaginative nonfiction novel,"In Cold Blood," through. This novel that was based upon the Clutter family's murder in 1959. The author, Truman Capote, went to Holcomb Kansas, the place where the family was murdered, and spent 5 years interviewing and studying the people in the town where he later went back home and spent another 5 years writing his "imaginative nonfiction" novel. He claims that all the information in the book is completely nonfiction and is either facts or based on his own observations. Capote uses a variety of these different lenses in his novel, but the one that stood out to me while reading was the psychoanalytic lens. This lens helps you figure out why people are the way they are, and I feel like Capote utilized this lens perfectly by describing the backgrounds of the characters in the story and really going into depth about them. By reading this book through a lens, I was able to analyze the story in a way deeper level that helped me see different themes throughout.