March 30, Class Review

How many of you left class and wondered what the f*ck just happened?

WONDER NO MORE!!

Today we decided on a definite "thesis" for our video essay.

We finally came up with the following:

· OFFICIAL TOPIC: Vietnam to shed light on Textbook Controversy

· GENERAL STRUCTURE

o Vietnam summary (basic overview of what happened

o Why we try to forget this information

o Texas' influence on this (Johnson)

o Texas Textbook controversy and influence now

o The problems this will cause; how it will continue to keep us in the dark about Vietnam and maybe Iraq and Afghanistan (See Obama's West Point Speech)

Also:

Ron came up with a list of roles (descriptions on the doc)

· Host

· Correspondent #1

· Correspondent #2

· Correspondent #3

· Board Members

We're also compiling a list of questions for our Sociologists to use when they're interviewing on the Google doc

Focus of next class:

Basically we need to finish up our discussion on how we're going to go about interviews before we move to anything else.

Matt's rough outline & Ron's roles