No journalist is the first person to know anything, if they’re reporting on what happened to another person, though you might be the first person to listen. It’s always someone else’s story first, and it never stops being their story too, no matter how well you tell it, how widely you spread it.
I never thought about it this way. It is true that journalist are just the ones that tell other's peoples story and report based off what they heard.
They invented new stories that turned out to be entirely baseless about people shooting at helicopters and great piles of corpses from imaginary bloodbaths in the Superdome.
Were things reported not really happening?
Poor people were left behind to drown or suffer. Then the mass media showed up to criminalize people trying to survive and obsess about the possibility that someone was stealing a tv set, making it clear that they considered protecting tv sets more important than rescuing dying grandmothers and traumatized toddlers.
Were people stealing tv sets to resell to possibly buy things they needed?
Black Lives Matter changing the story in our time by shedding light on the epidemic of police killings
I like how the author included a recent event that we can relate to more easily and see their point easier.
And when activism wins, it’s because, at least in part, the story has become the new narrative, the story the mainstream accepts. Journalism plays a crucial role in this.
The way the story is told really affects the message that gets across.
How do you break the story about what really threatens us and kills us?
Is she asking how to tell the story in a different way?
Your job is to report on the story on the surface, the contained story, the one that happened yesterday.
Does the author mean that when we report a story we shouldn't include our own opinions?
Your death will sit through many empty poems.
empty poem=meaningless poem Your death will have many empty feelings. The end of things will be meaningless. death=end of things
Don’t write that on the board
Was this said because the students were in disbelief?
wherever you point it.
Teacher's opinion of the opposite of gun is where ever it's pointed. The opposite can be anything and anywhere.
For the first time I dare to push them.
Teacher intends to surprise students with his point of view. The students trust the teacher's insight is reliable compared the other students.
try to write something like poetry.
These students kept focus on the end goal while the other students focused on the exercise.
The next day some of them have stopped talking to each other, they’ve taken sides.
I think people tend to enjoy surrounding themselves with people that have the same beliefs and views as them.
I reach for an eraser
Was this to end the disagreements?
Stupid-land?
These students must be young if they're using language like this. How would the outcome of this poem be different if the elderly participated instead?
wrong you’ll never be right again.
What makes this wrong? Do they believe in storks or are they referencing to a midwife not being the opposite of a gun? Maybe, they state that this is wrong for both reasons.
A midwife?
Some could argue that this is wrong and that midwifes don't deliver babies. Some people believe that storks do when they're at a young age. I wonder what age group these students are in.
a shouting match
activity has turned into a competition.
book, no way is it a book.
Why could it not be a book? This was an unexpected turn in the poem.
Flower
This line is student's OPINIONS on what the antonym of gun is.
flurry
What does flurry mean?Bold
a hail storm of answers –
He means a lot of answers coming to him at once and possibly out of nowhere.
Gun.
What significance does this word bring if it was mentioned more than once?
My Your Life Death Had stood ? Will sitA Many Loaded Empty Gun ?
Examples of antonyms.
I write it on the board
Was the opposites game a free group activity?
antonyms
Words that mean the opposite of each other.
my students
This person could be a teacher.
Opposites
Completely different, not the same, opposing things or ideas.
Opposites Game
The title of the poem is mentioned, but what could be the reason?
My life had stood a loaded gun,
Is he comparing his life to a gun because of how powerful he felt his life is? Does this mean he was ready in his life just like a loaded gun is ready to shoot?