English 2150- learned through visuals.

I think the theme for our english 2150 class is very interesting.  There are so many amazing different resources to teach from its hard to just pick one style, so I definitely would try to incorporate all different learning techniques in the course while trying to teach students the material.  I would also look at different stages of the theme race and justice.  So I would focus on cases from history to cases relevant in the present time.  It’s easiest for me to learn and grasp an understanding of things through seeing them visually.  I personally retain information better through watching movies or videos, looking at pictures, etc.  So if I was designing the class, I would incorporate plenty more of these things.  I also think visuals can make learning more fun and exciting.  I would pick one significantly famous movie to show during the semester.  It would probably be “Do The Right Thing”, a movie directed by Spike Lee, which basically shows racism to every single race.  Every class would be focused around some sort of specific idea to discuss and I would try to show a relevant video clip or pictures for the visual of that day.  Similar to the blogs due once a week, I think it would be cool to have students find current issues from the news dealing with race and justice around the world.  The students would have to write a page response to what the article was talking about.  I think that would be a good idea for students to stay updated on current events and get an even better in sight of how relevant race and justice are today.  Obviously it is english class so there would be plenty of reading material.  Just as the class is now, there would be an assigned reading for each class.  I would choose all sorts of different readings and excerpts from books like, “to kill a mockingbird” to speeches as famous and well-known as Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I have a dream”.   There would be class lead discussions about the readings each day.  People show they know certain material, when they can teach it or explain it to someone else.  I would want every student to leave my class with a strong opinion of race and justice in the United States today.