Extra+Credit+Possibilities+for+Spring+2012



Third Quarter:

Fourth Quarter:

1) You can watch the excellent film "J. Edgar," starring, among others, Leonardo DiCaprio (so hot right now five years ago?) Screen the film and write me a 200-300 wordish reaction piece where you explain your particular reaction to a particular part of the film that you found moving, troubling, bizarre, special, joyful, demoralizing, etc. etc.

2) OK so here's another cool thing I ran into this weekend...perhaps you all might want to check it out? Perhaps you have heard of the by-now-famous "TED" talks that have gotten "so hot right now" in the past couple years. You may have even seen one or two of them. The organization is basically devoted to cool ideas, and they sponsor live "talks" on a bunch of different topical subjects of the 21st century, and then they put them online. Well there is an affiliated organization here in Denver called TEDxMileHigh, run by some real cool and smart folks. They are putting on their yearly event this weekend, and this year they have a youth event that is free. On Friday June 1st in the afternoon they will hold a series of TED talks aimed at a youth audience (ages roughly 10-22) downtown at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Beautiful part of Denver to be in on a Friday pm in early summer, no? At any rate, if you want to go, take some notes, write me a short 200-300 wordish story about what you see, and email it to me at weissdanny@hotmail.com and dweiss@smanet.org by Monday morning the 4th...I'd throw some EC your way.

Here's the link for the event: http://www.tedxmilehigh.com/get-your-students-excited-about-the-power-of-ideas

Here's TEDxMileHigh's website: http://www.tedxmilehigh.com/

And finally here is a link to some of the national TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks