Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Melissa Gunby

*English 370

*Warm Up

What does “free speech” mean to you?

*Essay 2

*Free speech:

*Your task with this assignment is to frame your definition of free speech and provide a justification for your definition, as well as explain why you think free speech goes too far or not far enough

*You MUST draw from the resources in the textbook.

*I want at least three quotes from different sources

*Today

*We’re going to watch and discuss a couple of videos.

*One is a TED talk about censorship and freedom of speech on the Internet.

*The other is a short documentary video about cyberbullying and bullycide

*Videos

*http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_mackinnon_let_s_take_back_the_internet.html

*http://www.amazon.com/Bullycide-Verbal-Abuse/dp/B005ITTFBS/ref=pd_cbs_mov_aiv_2

*Discussion on Free Speech

*Pot Luck Tomorrow?

*Homework

*“Hate Cannot be Tolerated” pg 198-200

*“A Brand by Any Other Name” pg 102-107

*Rough draft of essay 2: upload to turnitin and bring two copies to class tomorrow