AP Seminar: Understanding Stimulus Materials – Part 1
Summary
TLDRIn this lesson, Alison Malloy from Carmel High School focuses on interpreting and synthesizing data from various perspectives using stimulus materials. The session covers understanding and connecting ideas across four sources related to happiness, exploring themes like utilitarianism, collective versus individual happiness, and contrasting perspectives on grief and joy. By analyzing texts such as 'On Virtue and Happiness,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and a Jazz funeral video, students are guided to identify essential connections and integrate these sources effectively into their arguments. The goal is to build a strong foundational understanding for deeper analysis and application in future research.
Takeaways
- 📝 The focus of the lesson is on breaking down the stimulus material and understanding its essential use.
- 📊 The goal is to interpret and synthesize data and information from various perspectives.
- 📚 Four of the seven stimulus materials will be covered in detail to build connections between sources.
- 💡 Essential use of stimulus material is critical for building a strong argument.
- 🧠 Utilitarianism is introduced as a key concept, emphasizing actions that promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- 😊 The stimulus materials are connected by the theme of happiness and well-being.
- 📖 The story of an hour by Kate Chopin is discussed, highlighting themes of freedom, grief, and gender equality.
- 🎵 Big Daddy's Last Dance explores the cultural and emotional aspects of a Jazz funeral in New Orleans.
- 🔗 Students are encouraged to identify and articulate connections between different sources.
- ✅ Understanding what's on-topic versus off-topic is crucial for effectively using the stimulus materials in arguments.
Q & A
What is the primary focus of this lesson?
-The primary focus of this lesson is on breaking down the stimulus material, interpreting and synthesizing data, and information from various perspectives.
Who is the instructor for this lesson, and where do they teach?
-The instructor is Alison Malloy, a teacher at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana.
What is the significance of using stimulus material in an essential way?
-Using stimulus material in an essential way means integrating it into your argument effectively, beyond just the introduction, to support your response and demonstrate a deeper connection.
What are the four stimulus materials discussed in this lesson?
-The four stimulus materials discussed are 'On Virtue and Happiness,' 'Have You Renounced Pleasure,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'Big Daddy’s Last Dance.'
How does utilitarianism relate to the stimulus material 'On Virtue and Happiness'?
-Utilitarianism relates to 'On Virtue and Happiness' by emphasizing that actions are right if they promote the most happiness for the most people, which is a central theme in the material.
What are the two different kinds of happiness mentioned in the stimulus material 'Have You Renounced Pleasure'?
-The two different kinds of happiness mentioned are the enjoyment of pleasure through our senses, which is brief, and a deeper, longer-lasting sense of fulfillment or true joy.
What is the main theme of 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin?
-The main theme of 'The Story of an Hour' is the concept of freedom and self-identity, particularly how the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, feels a sense of liberation upon hearing about her husband's death.
What cultural aspect does 'Big Daddy’s Last Dance' explore?
-'Big Daddy’s Last Dance' explores the cultural aspect of a Jazz funeral in New Orleans, capturing its reverent yet jubilant nature.
How does the lesson suggest students approach making connections between the sources?
-The lesson suggests that students ask themselves what ideas or themes connect the sources, consider what each source is about, and identify any connections or themes that arise as they compare the sources.
What is the importance of building connections between sources in this lesson?
-Building connections between sources is important as it helps students develop a comprehensive understanding of the materials, allowing them to construct well-supported arguments in their papers.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Stimulus Material Analysis
Alison Malloy welcomes students and introduces the focus of the lesson: breaking down and understanding the stimulus material. She emphasizes the importance of integrating the stimulus material in an essential way within responses, not just in the introduction. Alison outlines the objectives of the lesson, which include interpreting and synthesizing data from various perspectives, understanding four of the seven stimulus materials, and building connections between sources.
🧐 Understanding Utilitarianism
Alison explains the concept of utilitarianism, highlighting its principle that actions are right if they promote happiness for the greatest number of people. She uses contemporary examples like social distancing to illustrate this idea. The discussion includes the moral implications of utilitarianism and its application in decision-making, using the trolley problem and a hypothetical scenario involving Batman and Joker to exemplify these concepts.
🤔 Collective vs. Individual Happiness
Alison delves deeper into John Stuart Mill's perspective on utilitarianism, focusing on the idea that human actions aim to achieve happiness, which is considered the sole end of conduct. She contrasts individual happiness with collective happiness, emphasizing that utilitarianism prioritizes the latter. The discussion encourages students to think about real-life applications and connections to other concepts like social welfare and public policy.
📝 Connections and Reflections
Students are prompted to reflect on the connections between the stimulus materials and their own experiences. Alison uses examples like the COVID-19 pandemic and universal basic income to illustrate the practical implications of utilitarianism. She encourages students to jot down their thoughts and connections to better understand the material and prepare for further analysis.
📖 Exploring 'The Story of an Hour'
Alison introduces Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour,' summarizing the plot and its key themes. The story's exploration of grief, freedom, and gender roles is discussed, with a focus on the protagonist's reaction to her husband's death. The narrative's twist, where the protagonist's newfound freedom is abruptly taken away, serves as a basis for examining broader societal issues and personal reflections on freedom and happiness.
🎶 Big Daddy's Last Dance and Jazz Funerals
The lesson transitions to 'Big Daddy's Last Dance,' a video capturing a jazz funeral. Alison prepares students to observe and analyze the video, highlighting elements like music, movement, and cultural expressions of grief. She draws parallels between the jazz funeral and other cultural depictions of mourning, encouraging students to think about how different societies handle grief and celebrate life.
🔗 Building Connections and Understanding Topics
Alison wraps up the lesson by reinforcing the importance of identifying connections between different sources. She reiterates the goal of using the stimulus material to develop and support arguments, stressing the need to articulate these connections clearly. Students are encouraged to continue exploring the remaining sources and to think critically about how to integrate them into their papers.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Stimulus Material
💡Utilitarianism
💡Happiness
💡Connections
💡Synthesis
💡Essential Use
💡On Virtue and Happiness
💡The Story of an Hour
💡Big Daddy's Last Dance
💡Morality
Highlights
Introduction of Alison Malloy, a teacher at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, focusing on interpreting and synthesizing data from various perspectives.
Objective to understand four of the seven stimulus materials and build connections between them.
Importance of using stimulus material in an essential way for constructing arguments.
Discussion on the difference between 'on-topic' and 'off-topic' as it pertains to stimulus material.
Utilitarianism defined as actions being right in relation to how much happiness they promote.
Example of utilitarianism using the 'trolley problem' to illustrate moral decision-making.
Mills' perspective on happiness as the sole end of action and its role in morality.
Analysis of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's views on happiness beyond sensory pleasure.
Two types of happiness: temporary sensory pleasure and lasting fulfillment.
Story of an Hour: Mrs. Mallard's journey from grief to a sense of freedom after her husband's death.
Contrast between Mrs. Mallard's initial grief and subsequent feeling of liberation.
Big Daddy's Last Dance: A depiction of a Jazz funeral and its cultural significance.
Observation of how music, colors, and movement in the Jazz funeral contrast traditional funeral customs.
Encouragement to make connections between different stimulus materials and their broader implications.
Reiteration of the goal to use the stimulus material to support and develop arguments effectively.
Transcripts
hi AAP seminar teachers and students
thanks for joining us for a lesson - for
those of you who didn't join in Lesson
one we are so happy to have you and our
focus for today which I'll get into in a
minute is going to be on breaking down
the stimulus material so my name is
Alison Malloy I am a teacher at Carmel
High School in Carmel Indiana which is
just north of Indianapolis and and so
for today what we're going to focus on
is to interpret and synthesize data and
information from various perspectives
specifically we are going to make sure
that you understand the contents of four
of the seven seven excuse me stimulus
material we're going to make sure that
you're starting to build connections
between those sources and we're going to
deep dive further into a topic covered
in lesson one which is understanding the
difference between off and on topic as
it pertains to the current stimulus
material so if you remember from video 1
or if you're just joining us one thing
that is important to keep in mind is for
that first row of the rubric we have to
really think about essential use we have
to be able to integrate the stimulus
material as a part of our response
outside of just the introduction right
shouldn't just set up our question it
should be used in an essential way so as
you're thinking about that keep that in
mind once we go into the stimulus
material because that will help give you
a clear definition of how far you can go
if you can't imagine how to use these
sources in your argument or in a topic
then it may not be the right topic for
the purposes of this paper so keep in
mind that we want to be able to use the
stimulus in some essential way all right
so let's get into today's lesson as
you're looking into the stimulus
material it's important that you ask
yourself what are the ideas or themes
connecting all of the sources what's
this individual source about can I and
would I be able to give a brief and
accurate overview of the essential
information what topics or ideas does
the source talk about and
my favorite question 3 what topics or
ideas does the source make me think
about if I'm reading this and I'm
thinking about something else I'm
building connections and that's what we
want to be able to do here and then how
do I see a connection between one source
and another source versus that first
question which is asking what's uniting
all of the sources so keep those in mind
as we proceed into the stimulus ok we're
gonna start with on virtue and Happiness
but before we do I think it's really
important to use your context clues and
get some pre reading in so if you just
glanced at the titles have you renounce
pleasure on virtue and Happiness high
income improves evaluation of life but
not emotional well-being Big Daddies
last dance genes economics and Happiness
the story of an hour and the Happiness
Project what word or category of word do
you see repeat it now if we were in the
classroom I know what you'd say because
I could hear you number one but number
two you would all say the same thing so
I'm gonna assume you said it I'm gonna
repeat it so thank you to the one of you
out there who actually said it right you
notice the repetition of the word
happiness right we've got pleasure
happiness well-being we don't know what
Big Daddy's last dance is necessarily
just from the title
we've got happiness and we've got
happiness so if I were educated as I
know all of you are then we can think
from the beginning what's maybe uniting
all of these sources I don't know I saw
the word happiness a bunch so I have a
hunch that maybe that's what's going to
connect them but we'll see as we go
forward so if you don't have the
stimulus you can pause this and make
sure you get that out or take it from
the beginning of this video ok we're
gonna look at on virtue and happiness so
let's get in there
on page 12 is where this actually starts
but before we get in there it's
important to talk about utilitarianism
and what it means now for those of you
who want to go in much greater detail
those history buffs out there you
absolutely can but we just need a basic
working definition so we can understand
the sources because if you remember from
our objectives we can deep dive later
it's just to make sure we have that
basic overview of the essential
information so utilitarianism is a
belief that actions are right in
relation to how much happiness they
promote the more people in action helps
the better or more right that action is
so if we think about our current times
right now right the idea of social
distancing is because it's the best
decision for the most people so even if
you are having a hard time in your house
which Indiana has had a lot of rain so
it's the Midwest is not been ideal
weather wise but it doesn't matter
because it's good for the most people
it's the right decision our actions are
based on how many people they help so if
you think about those of you who are
fans of the good place which is one of
my favorite shows CD one of the main
characters have some trouble making
decisions so they use this trolley
problem which is a very famous problem
in psychology where if there are five
people on a track and a train's coming
and there's one person on the other
track do you switch the track and kill
the one person do you kill one to say
five or do you let it go the way it was
supposed to and kill the five people
that's the idea here
utilitarianism would say well we say
five because five is more than one okay
so if we look at what Mills is actually
saying let's look at paragraph two on
page 12
happiness is a good that each person's
happiness is a good to that person and
the general happiness therefore a good
to the aggregate of all person's
happiness has made out its title as one
of the ends of conduct and consequently
one of the criteria of morality so here
we have this idea that happiness is a
good right but it's a good to the total
or aggregate of all people so the end of
conduct why we act is because we're
trying to achieve happiness and how do
we know it's happiness because it brings
the most happiness to the most people to
the aggregate of all persons the other
part of this that's really significant
is that one of the criteria of more
is how we act is the actions that we
take which are then based on happiness
right so our actions should always be
rooted in the idea of what's going to
create the most good for the most people
so one of the things I think is kind of
interesting to look at and this is
something I had my students look at in
the classroom let's imagine back to the
TMP for those of you who who did that or
were in the process of doing that right
the idea of the team multimedia
presentation was to come up with an
argument as a team a problem solution so
let's hypothetically imagine that our
problem was Joker right
what should Batman do about Joker to
ensure the safety of Gotham City that's
a really interesting question right
because to break that down if we we're a
team we'd say well what are about man's
options what are those possible
solutions and then one of the strengths
and limitations at each well Batman
could kill Joker well what's the
strength of that well Joker can't wreck
any more havoc on gotham city but what's
the limitation batman would feel sad he
doesn't like to kill that's not that's
not part of his character so if that
would bother Batman how does that weigh
in terms of the strength okay so let's
look at it that way if Batman doesn't
kill the Joker the strength is it makes
that man happy right he didn't have to
kill anybody
but the limitation is now the Joker can
put more lives in danger as he continues
acting the way he does so this is a very
complicated question but if I were
thinking about it from the perspective
of utilitarianism the answer is very
simple
what's going to do the most good for the
most people right and it's not
complicated killing Joker would actually
do the most good now some of you may say
and which my students did well what if
we put him in a maximum-security prison
what if we had a sensor on him you know
a GPS tracking device and there's all of
these different things sure but at the
end of the day what's going to do the
most good
according to utilitarian
it's going to be to kill Joker that's
what's going to save the most lives and
be best for the whole population so
although this feels very black and white
it really is right what's best for the
most people so let's dig further into
Mills here so paragraph 2 on page 15 if
human nature is so constituted as to
desire nothing which is not either a
part of happiness or a means of
happiness we can have no other proof and
we require no other that these are the
only things desirable if so happiness is
the sole end of action ok so let's break
that down
human nature is constituted to desire
nothing
that isn't a part of happiness so all we
desire is happiness so every time we act
the sole end of our action is happiness
all right so every action we're taking
is to make us happy but not individually
but happy collectively okay so really
there's a lot here about collective
happiness versus individual happiness
because utilitarianism is saying that
that individual happiness doesn't matter
they're also saying that the end of our
action the reason why we do everything
we do is because it's going to make us
happy and that happiness is going to
help us give an indication of or our
morality okay that makes sense
hopefully it is because the idea here is
that this is how we then make decisions
so if we think about this in terms of
the questions that I asked you earlier
on a piece of paper next to you or on
the stimulus if you have it in paper
copy what are those things this makes
you think of when you think of the good
for the whole what does it make you
think of I know I gave you the example
earlier of the coronavirus or social
distancing right what are those other
things those of you who have followed
the news lately right like when I think
about things this makes me think about
universal basic income right team yang
if any of you were fans of andrew yang
that idea what does that look like those
are things that I'm making connections
what are the connections that you are
making here as you hear and think about
the things that middle is saying all
right while you are jotting those down
we're going to move on to the next
stimulus material and again the idea is
as you think of those things just write
them down at the end of the video you'll
have time to process and put all of this
together but for now it's just those
quick things that are on your mind that
you're thinking of okay we're gonna go
back now in your stimulus to the first
source which is on page five and this
source is called have you renounce
pleasure I think the overarching idea
starting with Mills is this idea we see
what essentially he's saying and that
helps shape how we look at these
other sources going forward so the Dalai
Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are
going to talk to us about this source so
if you go to page five in your stimulus
material um
paragraph one they start talking about
at this idea of happiness big thing here
in this first quote we cannot discover
lasting happiness through our senses if
we then go to page six I wondered about
the boundary between enjoyment and greed
those were both really really
interesting lines and they're going to
hit that idea of happiness through
senses in much greater detail as we move
forward but I think that line about
enjoyment and greed is a really
interesting point especially those of
you who are living in areas of the world
right now where toilet paper you can't
find right and maybe that's not
enjoyment maybe you don't think about
toilet paper is an enjoyment put that
idea of hoarding and greed or maybe even
its billionaires that you think of here
what are these lines what are these
sources making you think about those are
the connections you should be making
paragraph seven or sorry paragraph two
page seven there are actually two
different kinds of happiness the first
is the enjoyment of pleasure through our
senses okay but they told us on
paragraph one on page five that we can't
discover lasting happiness through our
senses but that is a type of enjoyment
okay through our senses
so let's actually look further out what
that means happiness at this deeper
level is the sense of fulfillment that
you experience while the joy of the
senses is brief the joy at this deeper
level is much longer lasting it is true
joy so the two different kinds of
happiness we have this first level where
it's pleasure through our senses if we
think about that right those of you who
are big fans of a certain thing maybe
you like like for example and love ice
cream okay the idea here is the first
bowl of ice cream is really exciting but
the second bowl maybe doesn't taste
quite as good right and then by the
third bowl maybe I have a tummy ache
because what we're enjoying through our
senses is temporary it's not lasting it
is not true joy
versus happiness at a deeper level
actually being something that lasts
beyond that very moment so is it
actually something that's gonna last
beyond you know just that temporary
moment right I love dogs too we have to
and so that idea of like petting a dog
is supposed to make you feel better but
does it make you feel better permanently
so if you look at page eight this is
where all of this stuff starts to come
together and you can see my annotations
where I've highlighted some of the
things that stood out to me so I'm gonna
start from when you are joyful okay when
you are joyful and happy at the mental
level physical pain doesn't matter very
much but if there is no joy or happiness
at the mental level too much worrying
too much fear then even physical
comforts and pleasure will not soothe
your mental discomfort so those of you
who are fans of reality TV so maybe you
love to watch Survivor or Big Brother or
even the challenge on MTV right they
have a lot of competitions where they
are endurance and they probably hurt but
what they're saying here is if you
actually feel joy at a deeper level that
physical pain isn't gonna matter you're
not even gonna notice because you are
genuinely happy it's a really really
interesting concept so if we keep going
with this is the mental happiness or
mental pleasure that you're talking
about lasts for 24 hours is it lasting
because if it not if it doesn't it's not
this second level of joy but they're
talking about so how do we get there
what does that look like here's where
they put that all together if you
develop a strong sense of concern for
the well-being of all sentient beings
and in particular all human beings this
will make you happy in the morning even
before coffee so if you actually care
about other people if you are a
compassionate tolerant grounded person
who you know is an advocate and a
supporter of Manatee you can reach that
deeper level of happiness but you can't
reach that deeper level of happiness if
you rely completely on your senses
it's just really really interesting so
what does this make you think about what
are those connections that you see
because we have stuff without happiness
and senses we have stuff about lasting
happiness we also had stuff about greed
what are those look like now one of the
questions that I know students always
have is well could I talk about things
that maybe are the opposite or in
contrast absolutely you know if this
makes you think of post-traumatic stress
and how people handle that that's okay
you can look at it from a different
perspective because the use of the
stimulus can be to enhance to complicate
to confirm to counter your points so if
you've noticed this connection so far of
happiness based on the title like we
guess then it's okay to look at it from
a different perspective you don't have
to use that that keyword in your
question right we are all intelligent
people and when we look at the rubric we
know that you're scored based on
articulating your connection but also
being able to use it in essential way so
if you wanted to look at something that
is different but you feel like you can
use this source to support it that's
totally fine right we have this whole
idea of physical pain right and so
there's something there
that maybe we can look at or maybe this
makes me think about athletes and
playing through pain or pain medicine or
things like that what does that look at
think about those connections what you
see in this source it makes you think
about and what you see as you compare
this source to the middle source all
right so look at that we've covered two
sources so let's keep going and we will
cover this next source so if you um look
at the story of an hour which is 142
and/or 141 and one
because this is literature but all of
you who have English teachers as your AP
seminar teachers are super excited about
the piece of literature that you get to
see the other good part of this is that
it is only two pages so those of you who
were struggling a little bit more with
what this is going to look like it's
okay it is a totally manageable piece of
literature and a capstone and seminar is
you know committed to making sure you
see a variety of texts so those of you
don't like it just kind of suck it up at
this point it's actually a really good
piece of literature okay so if we look
at story of an hour let's start at the
beginning
knowing that mrs. Mallard was afflicted
with a heart trouble so from the
beginning of the story we find out that
mrs. Mallard had heart trouble she had
problems with their heart okay so what
we know is that people are very
sensitive and thoughtful in how they
talk to her because she has struggles
with this affliction of the heart okay
but then we find out that her husband
has died
Genta right and so upon finding this out
we see that she wept at once with a
sudden wild abandonment in her sister's
arms when the storm of grief had spent
itself she went away to a room alone so
she finds out her husband dies and she
wept at once with a sudden wild
abandonment so she you know she was
crazy wild in her grief okay however the
line is really interesting here is when
the storm of grief had spent itself
she's done grieving the storm of grief
is gone she to her room and she went to
a room alone so there should be some
clues and predictions of what you see is
going to happen here but the idea is the
grief is over on page 41 paragraphs 9
and 10 we start to see this change in
her there was something coming to her
and she was waiting for it fearfully
what was it she didn't know free free
free so she's sitting there alone by
herself
thinking about this grief when all of a
sudden she can feel something new coming
but what she gets to is this idea of
free so is this really a negative thing
for her that her husband died well no
because she feels free like that's the
feeling that she has after her grief has
left she has this sense of freedom
okay then paragraph two on page 42 there
would be no one to live for during those
coming years she would live for herself
how exciting
right this is the archetypal female
story a man has held down a woman she
feels trapped by him and now he's dead
and she is free right maybe a little bit
darker than the things that you read but
the idea is here that she doesn't need
anything she can live for herself right
so for those of you who are fans of to
all the boys I've loved right John or
Peter the idea would be that large eeeem
can live for herself she doesn't need a
man she's now free so that's what we're
looking at here with mrs. Mallard but
then let's look at where the story
starts to shift a little bit
okay so Josephine was kneeling before
the closed door with her lips to the key
hold imploring for admission
so her sisters outside saying let me in
let me in I beg you
you're gonna make yourself ill so she's
worried about her sister because she
thinks she's grieving terribly but her
sisters response analysis go away
I'm not making myself I'll she was
drinking in the very elixir of life
through the open window I think about
how powerful that line is the very
elixir of life she is finally feeling
like she is living and she's drinking it
and she loves it okay her fancy was
running riot along those days ahead of
her spring days and summer and all sorts
of days that would be her own here's one
of my favorite lines she breathed a
quick prayer that life might be long so
now for the first time she hopes that
her length will be longer because she is
freeing me from this man and from this
cage and she can actually live for
and then if you go to the next paragraph
another really cool line is that she was
like a goddess of victory and look they
capitalized the victory because again
she is free and if she is free right she
can live for herself but then there's an
opening at the door with a lash key it
was her husband who had traveled um home
he had been far from the scene he didn't
even know there was one
he walks in she sees him right
or at least we think she sees him he
amazed but here's her piercing cry now
why is she crying is it because she's so
happy that her husband's home no she
just had freedom she's about to live her
own life and now she is back stuck in
that cage so then we have this jump so
we hear the piercing cry quick motion to
screen him from the view of his wife so
you know they're trying to block him
after she has this cry but then they
bring the doctors in and they say that
she had died of that heart disease
remember she had it she
it's me they're right we think that
she's dying of the joy that kills but
really she's dying because the freedom
that she felt she no longer has and if
she doesn't have this freedom why does
she want to live so what are the things
that you think about that make you think
here about freedom or about equality
right those are the things that are
coming out here so we've got stuff about
grief because right she's got the
mourning of her husband we've got things
about this gender equality glass ceiling
type thing right women should make as
much as men we've got stuff on heart
disease potentially and we've got stuff
on relationships there's there's so many
things here that you could potentially
draw connections to but it's a matter of
you being able to put those pieces
together okay so before we go on to the
next one I want to give you a minute and
I know I've been doing these kind of
quickly but again I want to give you big
picture and I want to make sure we get
that brief overview of all of these
sources but write down any of those
connections you're saying between story
of an hour and renounce pleasure or
story of an hour and unhappiness and
virtue give you one minute to do that
you
you
you
all right so hopefully you're starting
to see connections or at least it's
making you think of certain things and
then you can deep dive later into the
sources to see those connections so the
last source that we are gonna cover
today is called Big Daddy's last dance
and I'm sure you will be as excited as
my students were when we talked about
this in class isn't it comes with a
video but before we get to the video I
want to talk about what exactly we're
going to see so that you have that
preview before we get there so if you
read the prompt but I'm just going to
focus on the last line but in what
director Kaitlyn Greene describes as a
love letter to New Orleans Big Daddies
last dance captures the arc of a Jazz
funeral in all its reverent jubilant
glory so this is a Jazz funeral for
those of you familiar with the idea of
funerals right for most of us it doesn't
look as jubilant depending on how you
you know the funerals that you've been
to and what that looks like so as you
watch through I want you to really pay
attention to the colors the facial
expressions the music the movement and
how this compares but just before we see
the video if you think about this being
a funeral and then in the last source
they looked at story of an hour where
we're talking about grief maybe there's
some connections that you're starting to
see already I know for me one of the
things and I have a six-year-old
daughter who is obsessed with frozen -
right and so we've watched that movie
more times than I probably can count but
there is a big scene in that movie in
which Anna is grieving the loss of two
particular characters that she thinks
have died so I won't spoil it for you
but the idea there is that you know
she's thinking about what's the next
right step how do I move on how do I
handle my grief it's a really really
powerful song but there's a real
contrast in potentially how Disney
handles grief versus maybe how this is
going to look as we look at this funeral
so and I do want to warn you though as I
give you this information that
technology has been a little bit slow so
if it is slow I
you apologize for that but I do hope
that it will play for you if not you can
check out this video on your own okay so
here we go and I'm not going to show you
the whole thing but mr. about thirty
seconds in
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[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
all right so I'm not going to show you
the whole thing and you can watch more
of that on your own
but the big idea here that we are
looking at is what did you notice right
what stands out to you if this is the
the Jazz funeral this is what this looks
like how does that compare what does
that make you think about and like I
said I gave you that example from frozen
- and honest things as a part of her
grief we have a ton of music in here so
I know for me I immediately think about
music and grief and what relationship
that has and maybe there's something I
could impact within that but again just
like with all of the other sources the
idea is what are those connections this
makes me think about what make that list
and then see how those connect to other
sources what connections can I build
between two sources so the music the
clothing the dancing the facial
expressions how they're reacting to
grief it's it's very different than some
of us are used to so maybe there's
things that we could examine within
there and ultimately all of these
sources you're gonna have to deep dive
into them later but right now it's just
can I get the gist can I understand big
picture so that I can decide which ones
I want to further investigate and go
deeper into as I go forward so if we
remind ourselves of everything we
covered remember that our goal today was
to use the information that was
presented from a variety of perspectives
to help us develop and support an
argument obviously we're not at the
point yet to develop our own argument
but we are at the point to see where our
connections are how far we can go with
the stimulus and how far is too far
hopefully now you understand the
contents of four of the seven stimulus
materials essentially the big picture is
do I have a basic understanding like I
said previously you're gonna have to go
back in and read these and analyze them
in much greater detail but the idea was
I wanted to make sure that you had a
gist that we were on the same page and
that there was just clarification on
what kinds of things you could be doing
as you approach these sources I also
wanted to make sure that you could begin
to identify connections
between the stimulus Tyrael and then
lastly understand what's off-topic
verses on topic one of the things I want
to emphasize and I know my colleague and
partner who will be doing the next
couple sources mr. J Gonzalez from Lane
Tech in Chicago is going to cover with
you it's just this idea of how far can I
go with the stimulus and with generating
my research and that will come in
lessons 3 and 4 but the big idea here is
if we look back at thee as you guys said
because I heard you from into your
home's right you talked about how
happiness was common across all of these
sources and so if that's the thing it
doesn't mean that I can't talk about
depression it doesn't mean I can't talk
about anxiety it doesn't mean I can't
talk about injury right what it means
though is that I have to be able to
clearly articulate a connection between
two sources and then use one of those
sources in an essential way so if I'm
thinking about what's on topic I know
it's on topic because it's connected to
stimulus sources and I plan to use
minimally one outside of my introduction
in my argument ok so don't feel like you
have to and this is a misconception by
some students you do not have to use the
word happiness or any variation of that
in your research question it's not that
what it is is you have to be able to
articulate your connection and then use
the source in a central way so I hope
that gives you clarification and I hope
that we met our objectives for next
steps just a reminder the importance of
making sure you are connected to two so
as you're going through and thinking
about the remaining sources make sure
you're thinking about how this is
connected between two that's again our
definition okay in terms of next steps
continue to familiarize yourself with
the stimulus material again we can do a
deeper dive later it's just a matter of
a basic understanding because we can
start to build connections once you
start to build connections then you can
go further into those material after you
finish the video a recommendation I have
for you is just to take some time and
jot down on a piece of paper or on your
all of the connections you're seeing
across and among the forest sources that
we covered today that will help you have
that running lists because again you're
not taking quizzes on these stimulus
material it's just that you need enough
understanding of them to be able to use
them in your paper now your teacher may
decide to have you take a quiz just to
make sure you understood everything and
that's totally fine that's up to them
but in terms of the College Board side
they just want you to show that you get
it by how you use it within your paper
okay for the next video like I said mr.
Gonzales is going to talk to you about
high income jeans economics and
happiness and the happiness project so
we hope that you will join us that again
if you're having any issues with device
or Internet access make sure you contact
college boards so they can help you
because they are committed to that
equity and access peace thank you for
joining so glad that you can join us
again and we look forward to you
checking out our additional future
videos thanks
you
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