ASSIGNMENT FOR WEDNESDAY 4/9\

WenTV, Day 1

1 reading and 2 videos!

1) READ:

Ryan, John C., and Alan Thein Durning. January 1997. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch. NEW Report No. 4: pp. 6-12.

NOTE: Please also read page 6, the last page of the previous (non-coffee) chapter

Download PDF: stuff coffee.pdf

Questions:

• What is your response to the information itself? Has your view of coffee changed? What "take-home" lessons will you remember for a long time?
• What do you think of the method in which the information was given? Strengths and weaknesses?

2) WATCH:

"Black Gold: A Film about Coffee and Trade" (80 minutes)

Available at Knight Library: VIDEO DVD 01525

Or....

Come to our movie showing so we can all watch it together!!!!

SUNDAY 4/6, 7pm in PAC 16

Questions:

• What is your response to the information itself? Has your view of coffee changed? What "take-home" lessons will you remember for a long time?
• What do you think of the method in which the information was given? Strengths and weaknesses?

3) WATCH:

"Wen Wonders... about the Farmers Market" (30 minutes)

Click to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY25TuYn87o

Questions:

• Feedback on my show? How to make more appealing to a general audience?

(Seriously, be brutally honest here. Tell me everything you think! I want to get better. You will not hurt my feelings... you will be helping me!)