Name _________________________________________________________________________________________ Period _______________
SC20 Wall-E Project
Objective: Understand the impact of science and technology on human activity and the environment as
well as your place in the world – as living creatures, consumers, decision makers, problem solvers,
managers, and planners. The following outlines your responsibilities for the next several days:
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Watch Wall-E
Complete Viewing Log portions (see pages 3-6)
Select and read/listen to/watch 2-3 resources (see page 2)
Write Cornell Notes for the 2-3 resources selected (see pages 7-9)
Write a Rhetorical Précis for the film Wall-E (see page 2)
Rubric
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Viewing Log
Completion of
at least 3-4 Viewing Log
portions per day.
Completion of
at least 2 Viewing Log
portions per day.
Completion of
1 or fewer Viewing Log
portions per day.
Film
Participating in
watching
at all times.
Participating in
watching
most of the time.
Not participating
significantly in
watching.
The 4-sentence
Rhetorical Précis
provides a thorough
analysis of the film and
its social messages.
The 4-sentence
Rhetorical Précis
provides an adequate
analysis of the film and
its social messages.
The 4-sentence
Rhetorical Précis
provides an inadequate
analysis of the film and
its social messages.
Rhetorical Précis
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Social Messages of Wall-E Resources
(Select 2-3 resources and write Cornell Notes for each.)
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Over-Consumption - “Story of Stuff” (a 2007 Youtube video by Annie Leonard, former
Greenpeace activist) (21 minutes)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/21/overconsumption-environmentrelationships-annie-leonard
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The Rise of Consumerism - “The Rise of American Consumerism” (an article by PBS writers to
correspond with their 2004 episode of American Experience “Tupperware!”)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tupperwareconsumer/
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Cultural Conformity - “Toddlers Copy Their Peers to Fit In, but Apes Don’t” (a 2014 article
written by Association for Psychological Science writers)
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/human-toddlers-copy-theirpeers-to-fit-in-but-apes-dont.html
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Environmental Consciousness - “Environmentally Conscious Teens And College Students On
The Decline, Study Says” (a 2012 article published on HuffPost Green, written by Martha Irvine, a
journalist for the Associated Press)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/environmentally-conscious-teenscoeds_n_1346733.html
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Dealing with Garbage - “Not in my backyard” (NIMBY) - This American Life “Not It!” episode, Act
3 “The Big Crapple” (a 2015 act of an episode of a public radio show (podcast); segment by This
American Life Producer Zoe Chace) (16 minutes)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/554/not-it
Rhetorical Précis Resources
(Students use these links to write their Rhetorical Précis)
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Word banks of verbs, transition words, etc., for the Rhetorical Précis:
http://cherokeetrail.cherrycreekschools.org/Departments/english/Documents/Rhetorical%20An
alysis%20guidelines.pdf
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Template for a 4-sentence Rhetorical Précis:
http://www.lhsseniorproject.com/uploads/7/9/0/8/7908073/rhetorical_precis_template1.pdf
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Wall-E Viewing Log
Date
Question
Describe two things that
happened today.
Response
Choose a character and
tell your feelings about
him/her.
List questions that come
to your mind today.
Draw a picture from the
movie.
3
Describe two things that
happened today.
Have you had a similar
experience to anything
that has happened in the
movie so far?
List questions that come
to your mind today.
Draw a picture from the
movie.
4
Describe the protagonist
in no more than 20
words.
How does the movie
remind you of yourself
OR what has it taught
you so far?
Predict what you think
will happen next.
Draw a picture from the
movie.
5
Would you recommend
this movie to others?
Who do you think would
enjoy watching it?
Tell the main things that
happened today.
Draw a picture from the
movie.
What questions do you
have about the movie?
How did you think it
would end? Did you
enjoy it?
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