Warm Up Day: 9/4/14 Do you trust everything you hear, see, or read? How can you tell if what you read, watch, or listen to is speaking the truth? Explain your answer.

WHAT & WHY What: How does expressive language impact our understanding culture? -specifically how the “real world” of media uses denotation, connotation, mood/tone to impact our understanding. Why: Because word choice changes our perspective!!!!

NEWS MEDIA

WHAT IS OCCUPY WALL STREET? The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed. The first Occupy protest to receive widespread attention was Occupy Wall Street in New York City's Zuccotti Park, which began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United States.

Bias: being in favor or against something based on feelings and not reason CNN: bias (against) protestors themselves MSNBC: bias for the protestors FOX: Bias (against) the protestors

CLOSURE How does today’s activity align with the theme: words change perspective? Cite the videos as evidence.