The Scholar's Attic

Originally recorded April 16 and 20, 2021. Tree Huggers, Logos, the Gaia Theory, and Coca-Cola. It's all connected....

Originally Recorded April 16, 2021.

Originally recorded April 13, 2021

Originally recorded April 13, 2021. A quick overview of psychology, sociology, the plusses and minuses, and their respective entanglements.

Originally recorded in snippets on March 9 and 12, 2021. A quick look at, and words of warning from, Frank R. Stockton's most famous short story.

Originally recorded on March 30, 2021. This is the big overview and explanation of the propaganda project that makes the bulk of the end-of-year project for this course. Students will create two opposing pieces of propaganda on an issue represented or touched upon by their Reader's Choice book. (Reader's Choice, for us, is a relevant novel written within certain time periods or parameters, that is relevant to our historical studies at the time. In this case, students were allowed to choose any American or British novel written between the mid-1860s and the mid-1960s.) In case you didn't catch all the titles that the students are reading this go-around, they are:

White Fang

The Daybreakers

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Old Man and the Sea

Call of the Wild

Catcher in the Rye

1984

The Grapes of Wrath

Christy

Black Beauty

Peter Pan

The Screwtape Letters

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Man

Silverlock

Special guest speaker Dr. Robert Schaefer from the University of West Georgia speaks about Martin Luther King Jr's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." This episode is largely unedited and may include interruptions, extended pauses, etc. A cleaner version, with the student Q&A afterward, will be made available later. Originally recorded March 26, 2021.

Originally recorded March 9, 2021. Video referenced in this presentation can be found here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFICRFKtAc4

Originally recorded March 9, 2021. Some presentations may have dropped from the recording because (a) the student was out that day, or (b) the research threw some serious questions on which side the individual was fighting for.