November 14

Google Docs – 1980s

1st Hour – https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Sw_UGersr0awmQ6y0zuWkMIGfuB5lJ6pPf2l-F2HUo/edit?usp=sharing

2nd Hour – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvzOWDigjCpjasHcBz-VAaThDWXsSHDDJgDK42hsG6k/edit?usp=sharing

4th Hour – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cD8Y4lWEbkGe-PuvKBfawmEwYb-zQU8ugHEMF-9zweo/edit?usp=sharing

1st Hour – due by class, Thursday, Nov. 16 

2nd and 4th Hours – due by 10 pm Thursday, Nov. 16.  

 

May 9

Blog #85 – Forrest Gump as Nostalgia

The movie, Forrest Gump, takes viewers on a ride through the 1950s, and tumultuous 60s and 70s right into the mid 1980s. Along the way, Forrest and Jenny represent two different paths that Americans traveled during the time period (albeit, for white people).

The movie also represents a way of interpreting that time period of history, and it brings to mind this quote from Joel Achenbach:

“History isn’t the thing itself, but rather a story we tell, and the story changes, new elements are added, others forgotten, myths invented, causes imagined, facts debunked.  History is a process of imposing order on a chaotic process, inventing causality and finding meaning.”

Your job is to apply this quote to FG and explain how the movie is trying to tell a story about history, doing the things that Achenbach said.

Minimum of 300 words. Due Monday, May 16 by the beginning of class.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/when-forrest-gump-stumbled-into-the-90s-culture-wars-90475343717.html – read this article for more thoughts on the movie.