Magazine/Newspaper project

• Engels
• Middelbare school

IB Theme: Human Ingenuity

The area of 'Human ingenuity' is pretty vast. The most obvious and common interpretation is 'technological cleverness', but arguably you can be ingenious in practically any area - poetry, in politics, even in giving a neat excuse for being horribly late for a date.

Sci-tech ingenuity

As suggested, 'technological cleverness' is the most obvious interpretation of 'human ingenuity', think about examples of ingenuity which have changed the world in some way: clever solutions which have dramatic, far-reaching consequences

What examples of ingenuity have changed the world?

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Communication & media

In a way, all language is an ongoing opportunity for ingenuity - how can you phrase things in such a way as to communicate a message most effectively and efficiently? Furthermore, the media in the 21stC are embodied in fantastically ingenious hardware and software ... to say nothing of the ingenuity involved in the constantly-varying messages presented.

Social media is an example of human ingenuity. Do you think it has changed the world in a positive or negative way?

Ingenious explanation

If we want to study ingenuity in language, we should consider the two prime modes by which complex ideas can be communicated: (i) methodical sequencing of ideas; and (ii) the use of figures of speech to make abstractions more vivid ... which is rhetoric, actually.

Reading

Read the text in the following slide, answer the questions.

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How are these texts examples of human ingenuity, specifically ingenious explanation?

Witty ingenuity

The difference between explanation and wit is that ingenious explanation is defined by the clarity of the message, of what is expressed, whereas ingenious wit is defined by the playfulness of the message, of how it is expressed. Ingenious explanation is useful ... ingenious wit is fun! And the most ingenious is when usefulness and playfulness overlap...

IB Theme: Social Organisation

What possible topics could link to Social Organisation?

IB Theme: Social Organisation

Sharing???

- implies 'cooperating', as in 'sharing things out fairly'? or...

- 'competing', as in 'fighting for scarce resources'?

- is 'sharing' essentially morally driven - or is it practically driven?

- do human beings like sharing? Evidence, for and against?

The planet???

do we view 'the planet' principally as an ecosystem? or...

as a social system? or...

as an economic system? or...

as a political system? or...

all of these, mixed up? - in which case, how do all of the elements interact?

TEXT TYPES

-news report

-article

-opinion column

-letter to the editor

-editorial (opinion piece)

-review

-set of instructions/guidelines

-Public commentary (readers’ letters, + respond by editor)

Teams

See: Teams --> lesmateriaal --> text types

for materials on text types, incl. example texts. 

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