INHABITING OTHER LIVES/ PROF. HARVEY 

SCHEDULE

--M Feb 24:     Meet in library: organize group archival magazine oral report project on fashions of great-grandparents' generation; choose topics 

--W Feb 26:     Meet in library: groups conduct research in library 

--M March 3:   Check in with Prof. Day

--Conferences on Research Project

--Bring Annotated Bibliography (short list of books/articles, indicating usefulness for your research project)

--Bring Rough Draft of Project (cooked more than last semester, enough for me to see you are making progress) 

--W March 5:   Group Reports 

--M March 10: Group Reports

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ARCHIVE PROJECT:

FADS IN THE ERA OF YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

--you get an individual grade (20% of course grade) based on your contribution: thoughtfulness, preparedness, stimulation of interest—you should strive for all three

--the group presentation should be 20-30 minutes; groups of three, so 10 minutes each

--today and Wednesday each group needs to find a fad, assign tasks for each group member, and begin research

--suggested division of tasks after you hit on a fad in Life magazine: one student reads/digests information from magazine; one person finds a hard-copy book on fad or era; one person does internet research

--depending on fad and material, during the actual oral presentation you report on the materials you in particular researched.  Or, you collectively outline the report drawing on all resources and deliver in appropriate chunks in class (one person might talk about the fad per se, one person might talk about why sociologically the fad was popular, one person might show visual materials)

--if you do not find a fad/topic in Life you may do one of these: hoola-hoop craze, drive-in movies in 50s/60s, the “twist” dance, etc.