After thoughts

After numerous recordings we finally posted our podcast. After that, we came up with our questions. Overall, a productive day. All we have left to do is our lesson plan and I think we're done. I hope so anyways.

Our questions:

1. If you were a worker in this time period, based on the description the author provided, what would be your initial reaction to witnessing these job conditions first hand? (1 page reflection piece)
2. What does the title The Jungle symbolize?
3. How does the author's tone make you feel? Use examples to support your position.
4. Describe the connection between workers in The Jungle and the occupational hazards that lower income workers face.
5. After hearing this package, do yo think the government should be more actively involved in the well being of its people. What are some issues you feel the government needs to regulate?

Put in work:

Today my partner and I will podcast our reading The Jungle. We have to make 5 questions that touches upon the taxonomy and the reading. I suppose we'll ask how the passage made the listeners feel and what they would do given the situation. Perhaps test to see if they recall some of the various hazards of their workplace/living situation. Unsure of what else though.

Jungle update

I briefly tried to describe some of the happenings in The Jungle. Emphasis on tried. I kept mumbling and one of my better recordings got interupted mid way through. Although some of my verbal mistakes were amusing. Later I'll try and update the podcast so that it's more to the point.

Progress in The Jungle

I'm about halfway through reading The Jungle. It's pretty good so far. It was decided between my partner and I to pick out the particularly "revealing" parts of its story. We also planned on looking for any noteworthy photos that may have been taken at the time. I'm guessing we will use the students' reaction as a sort of set and explain how these stories and images had provoked a similiar reaction on the people of the time. The reaction was enough to cause a nationwide reform on the meatpacking industry.

Pre/Post pod

It was interesting trying to get used to podcasting; hearing your own voice is always a less than frequent occurance. Since we were inexperienced and had several mishaps we ended up re-recording several times but the end result turned out alright. Also worth noting were the microphones/headphones we used to record. I felt like an air traffic controller. I wonder how many other people shared this sentiment.

In class post

My partner, Diana and I will be doing something on The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. We picked it because it's a historically important novel which works considering how she's a history major and I'm an english major.