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Discussion Guide ≠ COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT ENGAGING STUDENTS AND ENGAGING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THROUGH FILM EDUCATORS THROUGH FILM Examine key social and political issues impacting women through curriculum and supporting video modules for the acclaimed documentaries WAITING FOR THE REVOLUTION, SHADYA,. SHAYFEEN.COM: We’re Watching You and TAKING ROOT. From an indigenous Bolivian leader fighting for labor DISCUSSION GUIDE rights to a young Israeli-Arab karate champion with feminist ideas, from three Egyptian women working for fair elec- tions, to a Kenyan woman leading a nationwide environmen- tal movement, these four documentaries explore stories of women's empowerment and leadership around the world. TEACHER & STUDENT HANDOUTS Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today. WWW.ITVS.ORG/CLASSROOM WWW.PBS.ORG/INDEPENDENTLENS/CLASSROOM INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) 651 BRANNAN STREET, SUITE 410 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 PHONE: 415.356.8383 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: WWW.ITVS.ORG/CLASSROOM PAGE 1 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS TABLE OF CONTENTS Student Handout A: Module 1 Note Taking Guide 3 Student Handout B: Module 1 Quotes 4 Teacher Handout A: Assignment Rubric (Lesson 1) 5 Student Handout D: Debate Notes 6 Student Handout C: Debate Roles & Format 9 Student Handout E: Debate Notes 10 Student Handout E: Debate Peer Evaluation Rubric 11 Student Handout A: Module 2 Note Taking Guide 12 Student Handout B: Module 2 Quotes 13 Student Handout A: Module 3 Note Taking Guide 15 Student Handout B: Module 3 Quotes 16 Teacher Handout A: Assignment Rubric – Media Production (Lesson 3) 17 Student Handout A: Module 4 Note Taking Guide 18 Student Handout B: Module 4 Quotes 19 Teacher Handout A: Assignment Rubric – Media Production (Lesson 4) 20 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM is an educational resource providing new documentary video content and accompanying curricular materials, lesson plans, and homework assignments to high school and community college instructors and youth-serving community-based organizations. Film content includes approximately 15-20 minutes excerpted from an independently produced documentary film from ITVS International’s Global Perspectives Project and the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Content is grouped into subject specific segments that correspond to lesson plans and educational activities. All COMMUNITY CLASSROOM materials are designed with key education standards in mind, and are available, along with the film content, on DVD and online. COMMUNITY CLASSROOM is a product of the Independent Television Service, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and with guidance from PBS Teachers, KQED Education Network, American Association of Community Colleges, National Council for the Social Studies, National Council of Teachers of English, National Association for Media Literacy Education and National State Teachers of the Year. Teacher and student handouts may be downloaded at www.itvs.org/classroom INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) 651 BRANNAN STREET, SUITE 410 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 PHONE: 415.356.8383 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: WWW.PBS.ORG/INDEPENDENTLENS/CLASSROOM PAGE 2 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: COPYRIGHTWOMEN’S EMPOW CRIMINALSERMENT TAKING ROOT Student Handout A: Module 1 Note Taking Guide Speaker Their views on sampling and music. Jeff Chang Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Records) Hank Shocklee/Chuck D (Public Enemy / The Bomb Squad) Bobbito Garcia (Rock Steady Crew) Other Other Other Reflect using this sentence stem: The comment that struck me the most was __________________________________________________ because _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ . INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) 651 BRANNAN STREET, SUITE 410 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 PHONE: 415.356.8383 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: WWW.PBS.ORG/INDEPENDENTLENS/CLASSROOM PAGE 3 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: WOMEN’SCOPYRIGHT EMPOW CRIMINALSERMENT TAKING ROOT Student Handout B: Module 1 Quotes Digital samplers allow you to take a snatch of a record, or a sound, or anything like that and turn it into a building block for a song. -Jeff Chang (Solesides Records) Basically, when I’m sampling I have all these artists. They’re in my band, and I’m sampling Wes Montgomery to play guitar on it. He’s in my band. You know, I’ve got Art Blakey. He’s my drummer. That’s tight. You know what I’m saying? I’ve got all these legendary musicians that are in my band. -DJ Abilities I mean, records literally — their name, records, right? You’re encoding history into these grooves, right? So, by taking these records and playing them back, DJs are giving us snatches of our history. -Jeff Chang (Solesides Records) There was always a culture of borrow and take, because there was a culture of — that was founded upon a lack of resources. -Bobbito Garcia (Rocksteady Crew) The idea of not having any instruments, but having a turntable and saying, well, fine, this is my instrument. You know? And you see it now with people with overturned buckets and pots and pans. -Saul Williams (poet/musician) There’s going to be a time when we’re going to have a nice little groove where Keith is going to be on some [sound], Chuck is going to have some [sound], and I’m going to be like [sound]. And so, we’re all together and there’s this one little moment that it all just meshes together in a nice vibration. -Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy/The Bomb Squad) What was exciting about Public Enemy was the militancy of it, like the way that Paris and Public Enemy were kind of taking Malcolm X and Black Panther speeches and recordings and sort of reanimating them. -Drew Daniel (Matmos) There’s — there was a cultural issue in that it seemed like more or less an underground urban phenomena and how is this going to translate to the — you know, to the big record business… And it turned out that all the traditional people who were so miffed by this way back in the early days quickly realized there’s a huge amount of money to be made here. -Anthony Berman (entertainment lawyer) INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) 651 BRANNAN STREET, SUITE 410 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 PHONE: 415.356.8383 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: WWW.PBS.ORG/INDEPENDENTLENS/CLASSROOM PAGE 4 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: WOMEN’SCOPYRIGHT EMPOW CRIMINALSERMENT TAKING ROOT Teacher Handout A: Assignment Rubric (Lesson 1) Criteria 6 5 4 3 2 1 Content Excellent, well- Good, devel- Sufficiently Contains some Insufficient Lacks inves- developed oped investiga- developed investigation of investigation of tigation into investiga- tion. Makes a investigation. similarities and similarities and similarities and tion. Makes a good compari- Makes a clear differences. differences. differences. sophisticated, son showing comparison Includes the Includes some Content is min- nuanced com- similarities and showing most impor- of the impor- imal and there parison, show- differences. similarities and tant informa- tant informa- are several fac- ing similarities Covers topic differences. tion about the tion with tual errors. and differences. with some Includes essen- topic, with one several factual Covers topic details and tial knowl- or two factual errors. in-depth with examples. edge of topic. errors. excellent details Subject knowl- Subject knowl- and examples. edge is good. edge appears Knowledge of to be good. subject is excel- lent. Presentation Comparative Comparative Comparative Comparative Comparative Lacks orga- study is well- study is well- study is orga- study is study is not nization, and organized with organized with nized and organized clearly orga- sections are clearly labeled clearly labeled labeled. Makes and some nized, and not labeled sections. Layout sections. use of color sections are sections may or are labeled is dynamic, Makes good and graphics. labeled. Uses or may not be incorrectly. making excel- use of color Shows some some color labeled. Uses Uses little or lent use of color and graph- original thought and graph- limited color no color and and graphics. ics. Shows and creativity. ics. May show and graphics. graphics AND Shows original some original some creativ- Shows limited they distract thought and thought and ity and original creativity. from the con- creativity. creativity. thought. tent. Writing is somewhat legible OR is in pencil. Scoring Guide: 6 Exemplary 3 Developing complete, correct, comprehensive complete, incorrect 5 Accomplished 2 Unsatisfactory complete, correct, comprehensive incomplete, incorrect 4 Satisfactory 1 Unsatisfactory complete, correct incomplete, incorrect INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) 651 BRANNAN STREET, SUITE 410 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 PHONE: 415.356.8383 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: WWW.PBS.ORG/INDEPENDENTLENS/CLASSROOM PAGE 5 COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: WOMEN’SCOPYRIGHT EMPOW CRIMINALSERMENT TAKING ROOT Student Handout D: Debate Notes My team is: Pro/Con Opening Statement The presenter responsible for the opening statement will
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