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Topics

It took longer than I thought it would, but here are the topics images Yeji emailed me. Have a look and think over what you want to write about for tomorrow’s class!

topics (zip archive)

The War of the Worlds, Radio Version

If you visit the Wikipedia page on the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, you can find links at the bottom of the page to several versions of the broadcast, as well as lots of information about it. Go ahead and have a look. I posted links to Korean and English language versions of the story as well, earlier.

The Exam, and The War of the Worlds

Everyone!

Our panel discussion tomorrow (April 16th) will be about censorship, ratings, and control in Korean media. I expect that your preparation/reaction paper package will be submitted to me when you come to school for your midterm exam on April 21st.

As for the exam, I’ll repeat what I said in class: you will be given a choice of which questions you want to answer, probably by choosing one question from Group A, one question from Group B, and possibly a third in similar fashion. It’s important to express your own ideas and opinion about the question, not just to repeat what was said in class, so I recommend you spend your study time thinking about some of the issues we’ve dealt with and discussed in class. I will select questions from student submissions (on the reaction papers) to make up the test, and will try to select them so they represent a range of different issues for each topic.

Remember that I have instructed you to use a black pen when writing the essay questions for the exam. If you use pencil, it will be discarded. Please also remember to double space, to make reading your answers easier. If I cannot read your writing, I cannot grade it.

I mentioned that we will be looking at the radio play of the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds after exams, and suggested that you could read the Korean translation of the novel, or the English version.

You can find one Korean translation here (it’s #22 on the page) but please bear in mind that this is a translation for children. I don’t know what the quality is. I recommend, therefore, looking at the English original, which you can download for free from Manybooks.net. It’s about 175 pages long.

Whatever you do, don’t watch the Tom Cruise movie and then think you know the story — it’s extremely different and one thing we will be discussing (and which will come up on the exam) is the question of how the novel and the radio play are different, and why.

Homework Was…

A student emailed me to confirm homework, so I’m doing it here:

For Tuesday, April 14th: Use the Compare Documents function in your word processor to find all the changes I made in your article. Try to figure out why I made those changes, and make a checklist of things you need to watch out for when editing and proofreading later articles.

(If you cannot find the Compare Documents function in your word processor, and have used the Help function, you can always simply print the two versions of the file and compare them yourself. But using a word processor will be much more efficient.)

For Thursday, April 16th: Prepare a critique of the two articles we chose for discussion: the article on Self-Help Books and the article on Intercultural Marriage. (Both are included in the article package I posted earlier.)

Articles

Here are edited versions of all the articles that were submitted on time. They are all in a single .zip file. Download the archive and find your article, as well as the two that will be discussed on Thursday!

Article Package 1 (.zip archive)

Deadlines and Assignments

Here’s the edited outline for the script. Everyone please read it.

And here are the jobs that were assigned on Thursday!

Script Work:

<Script member – Hyejin, Sunhwa, Hyerim, Hyunjung, Yoonkyung> You will use Celtx to write the script.

Other Tasks:

Locations:

<Members: Yookyung, Yoojin>

Costumes: 

<Members: Junghee, Jumyung>

Extras & actors:

<Members: Seungchul, Sora, Soonjae>

Camera practice : Apr 16

<Members: Hangoo, Sujung, Hyerim>

Set design/ props:

<Members: Jiyoung, Hyojung>

Makeup:

<Member: Minkyung>

For the Panel Discussion

Here are some links to videos that will be discussed in the Panel Discussion on April 2nd: