Episode: 361, Act 1 (Fear of Sleep, Stranger in the Night) - Mike Birbiglia Course Topic: Sleep Disorders Note: This used to be tangentially related to the course material (never stopped me from playing this act - students *love* it!) And he was talking about his brains being on the ground. Do you empathize with Darin? Feel free to use with or without my name. And I walked with him as he zipped down to the cafeteria. I teach an upper division elective undergrad class at UCLA called "Perspectives on Autism and Neurodiversity," cross-listed between the Psychology department and Disability Studies minor. He told me a story about how the last time he'd seen Terrance was on his porch. Perhaps we will send them to the Tiger to share with her! In years past, I have been frustrated by their nave misguided presumptions that we live in an era of educational equality, based on merit alone. Once when Devonte had stopped by, Crystal had pulled out photographs from a recent vacation she took with her husband in Jamaica. There's no violence at the game, unless you count the incredible trouncing the Harper Cardinals give to Marshall High School. I started browsing for some of my favorite stories and then choosing which ones I thought the students would like best. Once the 'reveal' at the end of the episode came in, we compared notes and hypothesized why we construct memories the way we do. Submitted by: Scott J. Sorn, Senn High School. Submitted by: Steve Jones, City Of Medicine Academy, NC. So he knew how to lead a team. It leads to a really great discussion about the code of ethics when it comes to writing and the responsibility of fact checkers. The kids there would bully Terrance and his friends. We talked about archaeology, fossils, and anthropologists and their study of oral tradition in different communities. It caused an incredibly interesting conversation about truth, sourcing, etc. I spend a couple mornings with a staff member named Marcel Smith. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances. 21 were wounded, eight of them died. My students - even college students - really don't have an interest in or appreciation for financial markets - until they hear this episode, of course. All of the acronyms - CDO, CDS, and MBS - were a mystery to me, as were the roles of the various institutions in creating this crisis, including mortgage lenders, Wall St., the Fed, etc. And when they do, he's facing serious charges-- the gun charge itself, violation of probation, which he was on for the accidental shooting, maybe running from the court. Since then, his sister has stopped talking to him. It works on many levels. Both, thankfully, survived. My brother got several guns, though. The students came up with their own lists and then I had them share their individual experiences in a group discussion to get an idea of how difficult or easy students' felt their experience to be. This kid got two guns from his brother. Two of the security staff who have seen Harper go through overhauls in the past say it always changes when the money is added. But I could not go up there. Submitted by: Teresa Filice, Cupertino High School. Dozens more were in incidents where bullets were fired, but they didn't get hit. Terrance Green was murdered during summer break, July, 2009. Again, we talked about the themes and about how Sam Slaven's experiences in overcoming his biases relate to how Reuven Malter of Chaim Potok's The Chosen changes his views about truth and his world. And so, her decision--. Later that year we listened to episode 310: Habeas Schmabeas when we began to write persuasive essays. I play the podcast in class and have students take notes about as many details as they can. You know, I mean, there's not much we can do. In short, the research paper asks them to choose which type of evil is the worst/most dangerous (personal, social, or religious) then substantiate their claim by referencing works that we have read throughout the year. This episode of our show contains words that were beeped when we broadcast this over the radio that are not beeped in this online version. This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International. So on paper, that's what Marcel does. I don't like that, he said. Then I have them think of something that they encounter every day but never think about how it works. Not only did this affect the way they saw WEB DuBois, it has turned out to be the single most influential piece of the entire course. You know, you live on that block, or you live in that area, you one of them. I teach 8th grade world history, starting with the Stone Age and ending with the Middle Ages. We have a general comprehension discussion then I ask them wether or not it is considered news, and why or why not. Often when we would listen to pieces of TAL - I ask them to do the equivalent of RSAnimate, on paper while they listen. Submitted by: Tiiu Tsao, elementary alternative school in Ottawa, Canada. Today he stood there, staring at the house kitty corner to his. There's also slide shows, collages, videos, some with slick editing and production. The prologue to episode 423: The Invention of Money dovetailed nicely with our readings from Marx's Communist Manifesto. And my lips were tingling. I recently came up with the idea of using an episode of This American Life, Submitted by: Antonio S. Caruso, North Allegheny Senior High School. Its not something that should have surprised me I attended a state school myself, Ohio State, and football is nearly elevated to a religion there. As soon as the subject of what is funny and what is not surfaces in my Advanced Creative Writing class (and it always does), I let them listen to The Onion staff break down their headline selection process; a tutorial that's a necessary rite of passage in the process of writers developing the thick skins needed to endure and appreciate meaningful critiques of their work. It was the largest fallout of a student death I had ever seen before. The program has rolled out this year. He witnessed that. Teacher Experience (10 minutes): I will share with you my experience of trying to get into college and then we will discuss some of the similarities and differences. So much of this success, I think, has to do with Crystal. from the live show DVD as a way to teach narrative arc and how to plant a motif (the repetition) for a powerful payoff at the end ("she only had to say it once"). (That's the first reason I've used the show.) They hadn't taught them how it all worked. I also used Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory and the Retraction we listed to the original when it first came out, again in Globalization, but then listened to the retraction. The students LOVE this story because they get SO OUTRAGED at the teacher and what she does. But it was a shooting in the neighborhood. And a lot of that money, she'd put it into the school. Students reflected on the questions "What do we want our classroom to be like?" Brilliant! But when you have taken the life of another human being, you realize how serious that decision is. Submitted by: Mark Henderson, Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY. He's pretty combative, kind of churlish. Students were instructed to examine all sides of the story, like the This American Life piece had done. To show what PTSD is, I made a power point presentation to go along with the story of the soldier back from the mid east struggling with hyper vigilance when driving by palm trees in Florida. They got the most shots. While the violence is shocking, the stories of these students and the school administrators who support them provide a nuanced glimpse . In this school there is been many problems coming from gang related violence. Baucom Ph.D., University of Utah. It was the story the attorney told about posing as waitstaff at a country club. He literally ran out of the courthouse. After comparing their experiences with my experiences, I played for them the into to the episode, and they listened to the interviews with the incoming freshmen at Columbia University and their explanations for why they believed they got accepted. I used this episode in both classes. Submitted by: Reed Farrar, Reeds Brook Middle School. I like that it shows the point of view of a scientist and a non-scientist, that real science is not as clear cut as the stories we read about in textbooks, that it talked about the importance of variables and controls in experiments, and that the scientist in the story talked about how results are not valid if you are not careful about your controls (which is a really hard concept to understand.). OK. Submitted by: Jennifer Medina, Blue Springs School District. Reporter Alex Kotlowitz talks with a junior named Thomas, who has seen more than his fair share. I've also offered listening to and writing a reflection on relevant episodes as extra credit. Y'all didn't know nothing about these guys. Submitted by: Katie Foehrkolb, Harmony School of Political Science and Communication. (I sometimes include Octavia Butler's Kindred in this unit as well, since that also raises those kinds of questions.) I teach a course called "Writing for the Media" to 11th and 12th graders. to discuss how our perceptions of normality is shaped by the cultural context in which we live, Submitted by: Andrew J. Smith, Virginia Tech. Learning of this staggering statistic, This American Life embedded three reporters at the school for five months. OK? For most students, it's their first try at acting and in writing scripts. I wove into my US Government class. Materials: Each student was given a transcript of the episode. The last question is always what did the boss Torey Malatea say because they have to listen all the way to the end to get the answer to that one. By next year, we hope to have a separate curriculum for each grade. The teenager who had been shot on Thursday, James Williams, made it to the hospital and survived. You can hear it in Thomas's voice, muffled and sluggish, as if he's speaking from deep inside a cave. The second week of class, we listened to Vivian Paley's classroom experiment ("You can't say you can't play") from episode #27: The Cruelty of Children. I'm going to try. Not long ago, they visited Shakaki's gravesite together. Inheriting means somebody gave you something. There is a short section on campaign finance, so this episode fits right in. I have used "Hearts and Minds" on the Arbenz coup in Guatemala a few times over the years in media and radio history classes. A week later they came back and told me they were so grateful to have a class that opened their eyes to these types of cultural lessons. We then discuss how they can help to make for better discussions (and how they can avoid behaviors that ruin discussions -- how to avoid being that bad apple). Harper High School, Part Two - This American Life I have been using excerpts of the reports on Harper High School in Chicago by This American Life to highlight how expanded fieldnotes can work to reveal real stories that have meaning. In a minute, from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International when our program continues. And so look, this is part of the resort that we were on. And the year before, there were six. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances. And just scooted it all the way back then just closed. That podcast made me approach the play with a level of maturity and empathy that was absent in my readings before. I didn't sleep that whole week she got killed. In addition to the questions listed at the bottom of the attachment, some other essential questions we've discussed were: -Do you think the Colorado Springs plan works? Kids who know Terrance use his last name, Green, in place of their own. I thought long and hard about how to connect Harper to what we were doing in class. And the two or three days a week she's at Harper, Thomas always comes to see her. In the five months I spent at Harper, nearly every time I visited the school's social work office, which was often, Thomas, a junior, would be there, too, during classes, passing periods, lunch, whenever. There answers were interesting to me and I thought I would pass them along to you as well. The teacher told them to put one back. I have recently begun to teach a course on American media, and in this class I present the students with examples of American media ranging from clips of popular American sitcoms to short segments from radio programs. He didn't go home. Here, they are threatening and taunting a rival gang, S-Dub, which is also called the Dub. Winner 2013 WBEZ Harper High School WBEZ Chicago's This American Life At Harper High School in Chicago, twenty-nine current or recent students were shot in the span of a single year. There's Bird gang northwest of the school named after Martel Barrett, whose nickname was Bird. Listening to the radio pieces was a great way to test - and to demonstrate - how useful our texts could be in figuring out some very complicated stories about manufacturing, banking, finance and regulation in the 21st century. How do these choices impact the reader's understanding of the text? It'll usually have a murder or something on it. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. So Principal Sanders was scared that there might be retaliation at the game or at the dance. We're going to be focusing more on the students in this hour. I used TAL in a 200 level college course called Intro to Appalachian Studies (social science.) OK, so I just got word that there was a shooting. All the kids agree, if a gun's in your house, the police can find it in a raid. Cookies. From there we all read Paul Tough's book, How Children Succeed. We use the Harper High pieces in our Intro to Journ classes as an example of in-depth storytelling. The Suspect Car and The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar have proven useful. For the rest of my life, I'm screaming, fuck the Dub! Shakaki, who, like so many kids at Harper, half expect to die young, had told Anita if she was killed, she wanted her to put a note in her casket. After careful searching and consideration, I decided to use the two-part Harper High School episode as the central text in the first unit of my sophomore Language Arts class. I think the general feeling was that the pieces gave students a fuller sense of the value of learning social theory, and I suspect that it made many of them more eager to become consumers of economic journalism and engaged citizens more generally. Just after the financial crisis happened, I realized the necessity of teaching the origins and consequences of the twin bubbles, in credit and housing. He's here. I paired this with the Twilight Zone teleplay "Monsters Are Due On Maple" and the Ray Bradbury short story "All Summer in a Day". It really reinforced the idea of what an oral tradition in, and how the stories we tell help define who we are. I'll make sure I-- who is that? we listened to episode 459: What Kind of Country. She then runs through what, for them, has by now become a familiar exercise. Last year, the school had 29 shootings of current and recent students. But the truth is they're incredibly close. 2. I used to be a full time ESL teacher in South America and in the US and used TAL with my students all the time! It comes the day after the lesson on "Chronology in Police Report Writing," so the interview is a great example of telling the story in the order the events occur. It was awesome! You can only have bad days on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Here's a link to it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FTWaY98ta5drLWBrFTL9z5RRgWm77T3-SZT5U5q_zr0/edit?usp=sharing, Submitted by: Eileen Orzoff Baranyk, Vernon Hills High School, Deviance, The Labeling Theory, and understanding William Chambliss's The Saints and Roughnecks http://sociologysal.blogspot.com/2008/04/deviance.html. It leads to a great discussion because it's news to them, but it's so unconventional (to them) in it's delivery. In the first-year composition classes I taught, I focused on argumentation and rhetorical analysis, as opposed to the traditional (and antiquated) literature-based comp curriculum. So I'm going to look at them for him while he in there. Yeah. I also played a clip of an episode for the labor course on discrimination. Then I play Dos Erres or the episode where the Muslim girl is told that a candy cane is shaped in a "J" for Jesus and the red is symbolic for the blood of Jesus. I pair it with Scott Magelssen's scholarly essay about Conner Prairie, and usually the discussion focuses on whether 'interactive history' is an appropriate and/or effective way to learn about slavery. Writing can be revised, I remind them. I used it for obvious reasons like, it's a good story, and it's funny enough to hold the kids' attention. You know, the garbages in the alley? Entire streets close down. Her kids are going off to college. Thank you. I'd never seen it. There were some fights in school, some fights on the street. And I am the Principal of Furr High School. And finally, Boogie admits it pretty plainly. Often I have us listen to this episode, look up how the debate went this most recent year, and prepare to have a debate in our classroom about some other topic. Submitted by: Timothy Horner, Villanova University. the intro from your "So Crazy It Just Might Work Show" was the provocation for great discussion in my third grade classroom. I started seeing this TGC, TGC, TGC everywhere. My suburban, mostly white, students in Iowa would walk away from TKAM thinking it was a thing that used to happen long ago in the South. Hundreds of people turn out for street parties. They range in age from maybe 9 or 10 to early high school. For a couple of years, I followed the boys as they grappled with violence, poverty, and the gangs. And nobody really seems to care? Feb. 15, 2013 Photo Gallery: Harper High School By Bill Healy Related Episodes Prologue Prologue We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. I don't like my life no more. I've given my students excerpts of "Life in the Middle Ages." We too debate why "Local girlfriend always wants to do stuff" gets the nod over "Nations' girlfriends call for more quality time," and we have TAL to thank for that! And I hung up. I'm Ira Glass. Hi! Thanks to This American Life for helping fuel my instruction. but also about character and life skills (perseverance, failing "well," creativity). He was standing on the porch, Shakaki next to him. There are a large number of universities in South Korea, but the majority of high school students are competing for the top three (imagine the level of competition!). In the office, I tell Crystal that she looks tired. You can see why they'd want to name their neighborhood after him. Or do you think everyone should be, Submitted by: Alyce Yorde, Holy Innocents Episcopal School, The one place where I explicitly include TAL in the lesson plan is the in my Bioethics course, which students have to listent to both hours of the 2-part episode on US health care system (More is Less and Somebody Else's Money) and then respond to the following question: "Respond to the two episodes of This American Life that examine the current health care system and the efforts to reform it. Submitted by: Douglas Campbell, The Center for Economic Education, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, TN. Identify examples where the Amendments were used correctly or misused, 3. Sometimes they make the show sympathetic to people who simply want to make money, sometimes they make the show supportive of IV. I don't know, maybe your book stressed me out. Submitted by: Cornelia Howell, Dawson College. In fact, this is one of the best examples of investigative journalism I have ever encountered. As you're going to hear, there are some big differences in the way they see Terrance's story. Hello. I got it, or came closer to getting it than ever before. I've done this with E. 461 and the Harper High School episodes. Feb 13, 2013 at 12:00 am Expand At the funeral for Shakaki Asphy, a Harper student shot and killed this past summer, held at Christian Youth Missionary Baptist Church in Auburn Gresham. I often begin, Grade 9, act 2 about Serry and the discrimination her family suffered for being Muslim. This episode connects kids to the real life of Hamlet and the stories of the prisoners are heart wrenching and so impactful. It connected campaigns and elections, theories or politics (elite, pluralism, etc) and gridlock well, I use the podcast during the chapter that we discuss Congress. ", In an upper division course on social order and social change, I've used E. 461 - Take the Money and Run for Office - In a previous semester, we listened to the prologue and act one and discussed it. Her little brother? Overall, they really enjoy this assignment. as instruction on GOING OUT AND GETTING STORIES. I did not ask them to include it in the essay, or to write about the podcast. Of course, this isn't the most satisfying answer to the question, where do you get your gun? Harper High School, Part One | This American Life. ", Submitted by: Janie Morissette, Montana State University. Winner 2013 | WBEZ Chicago's This American LifeAt Harper High School in Chicago, twenty-nine current or recent students were shot in the span of a single yea. The parallels drawn between the 2 main contributors were poignant, and my students expressed surprise, increased awareness, and some amount of paradigm shift after listening to this podcast. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International. Credit: Credo Beauty. And I'm the new principal here at King College Prep High School here in Chicago. Just today, in my Human Geography class (a perfect class to truly explore what the American life is!) Guns arrive in the neighborhood through all the means you've probably heard of-- straw purchasers, gun show loopholes. And ever since that day, I was just trying to hurt everybody. For the staff, who have been here at this point for 14 hours, the significance of this moment is not lost. So he witnessed that. Hello! "The First Starting from Scratch" by Jonathan Goldstein is an absolute must hear when I am teaching Milton's Paradise Lost in my British Literature 1 survey. As Marcel turned to deal with him, he asked me to turn off the recorder, so I did. Mmm-hmm, all the time. Submitted by: Marlee B. Marsh, Columbia College, I am requiring my students to listen to When Patents Attack (both episodes), Submitted by: Todd A. Stuart, Grand Valley State University. Why do artists make art? Last June, he was standing on the porch of an abandoned building, talking with another Harper student, Shakaki Asphy, when she was shot and killed. Eight of them died. Crystal knows that Devonte will just get more caught up in the streets, fending for himself, and that at some point the police will get him. I needed to hear that. The good Devonte, he replies. So how do they get them? Anita's trying to pull him out of his hiding. Keep doing the great work that you do! With all of the things that you have experienced, which one is constantly on your mind? I don't like it. In spurts, he talks about his feelings, especially his guilt over his brother's death. Anita splits her time between Harper and another high school. It made me concerned for my students not just their physical safety, but their critical thinking skills. The new clique, the new gang that Terrance's death gave birth to, today it controls 23 city blocks in the neighborhood east of Harper. Another incident. For TGC and two or three other allied gangs, the dates of Terrance's death and his birthday in November, in the neighborhood, those days are a big deal. One member of TGC tells me Terrance got his friends together for a meeting. This American Life (TAL): Harper High School is a podcast about a school in west Englewood Chicago, thirty minutes south of downtown. Crystal is relentlessly bright, positive, cheerful, peppy-- like, aggressively so. It is the perfect thing for those kids at that time. He showed me pictures. How old is her little brother? And that's it. You know Nugget's little brother got shot Monday. Attached you'll find the assignment sheet associated with this lesson. The day before this, when everybody was at a pep rally in the gym for Homecoming, a 16-year-old who attended Harper last year and dropped out, who still had friends here, was shot just a few blocks from school. He don't fit in that. Finally in my senior year I took AP English from Mr. Nagro. After the third week, I was really struggling with moving us away from the literal use of mapmaking in art (that is, taking imagery from roadmaps or geographic maps and incorporating them into their work) and more toward a kind of conceptual, autobiographical mapmaking. For this class we would prepare to take the two AP English tests (Language & Composition and Literature), so we studied both fiction and non-fiction. Part talked how about the Vikings would have understood why the war got so savage, and part talked about the battle of Midway. Don't say you was inheriting nothing, because you wasn't. $1.6 million is a lot of money to lose. I saw it. Simon Gratz Mastery Charter High School in Philidelphia, where 9 students have been killed in the past 3 years. Overtime the connections between this work of fiction and Harper kind of seemed astounding to me. What really stood out to the South Korean university students, was the fact that the more unique an American high school student is, the better chance they have to get into a good university. It's not in his house. One of the texts that I have used for years is "On the Souls of Black Folk" by WEB Dubois. So this conversation took place earlier in the fall. Submitted by: Larry Friedman, CHAMPS Charter High School, My favorite TAL piece to use in the classroom is Elna Baker, Submitted by: Terri Smith, Liberty High School. Then I listened to the "Giant Pool of Money" episode and holy crap it was like an entire 1970s-era-Howard-Johnson-sign's worth of light bulbs went off in my head. Why do artists make art? We use classic texts to try and discern the writers' particular understanding of human nature. Dec. 16, 2020 When the public radio show I host went on the air 25 years ago, I was firmly. What are those principles, as they exist today? Also, I just listened to "Inside Job" again, and will probably incorporate that into my lectures. Full episode Transcript 488: Harper High School - Part Two Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. They were just kids. We listened to that segment in class. We worked with the podcast for over a week.
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