Evaluate the documentary 13th.

In order to earn full credit:
Watch the documentary 13th.
Answer each section of each question, 1-3.
Use the same format this question is presented here for your post.
Submit a minimum 300 words, double-spaced, font size 12.
This averages about 100 words for each of the 3 questions below.
Use regular paragraph format.
Attachments are NOT accepted on discussion posts.
Submit posts in regular paragraph format, including spacing between thoughts, etc.
‘Big blob’ format submissions will not earn full credit.
Points are deducted for submitting ‘big blog’ posts.
Include specific personal life experiences, or thoughts, from your life today, as they relate to the topic.
If your reply is vague points will be deducted.
Include all 8 critical thinking guidelines throughout each discussion post.
*Do a spell and grammar check before you submit your post.
Answer each question.
It looks like a lot, but if you read the questions before you click ‘play’ on the documentary 13th, the questions will answer themselves as the documentary unfolds.
Remember to include 8 CT guidelines listed below, throughout your post and be specific with personal experiences and thoughts.
Also, how does the documentary 13th, apply to your own thoughts and experiences, on a personal level.
If you live in America racism affects you. (Examine the evidence) Think about it. It affects everyone of us in one way or another.
Since you live in the USA, you’ll have some personal experiences, or thoughts, that you can share.
Except for Question #3 which is checking your knowledge of the brain parts and their functions.
Refer to your textbook for essential key terms to the brain.
1.
Evaluate the documentary 13th.
It is being offered free, on Netflix. (Thank you Netflix)
Refer to a minimum of four primary speakers, of your choice, who speak throughout the documentary, by their name.
‘Critically’ consider & share the main points each speaker is making.
Include critical thinking skills here, in order to earn full credit.
A. What were the speakers strengths & weaknesses?
B. What did you like & dislike?
C. What was surprising, or what did you wish was different?
2.
A. List a minimum of 5 things that you learned about yourself from watching the documentary.
B. Explain how you will use this newly learned information in your life today.
How will you use this information in your life?
This is checking to see what you personally learned from the documentary.
At the same time, relating the documentary to those specific personal lessons.
Include examples of your own critical thinking skills here.
In order to earn full credit, post your answers in complete sentences.
For example, each sentence must begin with, “I learned _________________”
For example, if you choose to include the first option below, you will post something like this:
“I learned that 90% of African Americans end up in prison.”
(90% is not the correct answer.)
1. I learned that __________ percent of our African American population end up in prison?
2. I learned that ________________ percent of the world lives in the USA?
3. I learned that_________________African Americans make up _______ percent of USA prison population?
4. I learned that America is home to __________ percent of the worlds prisoners?
5. I learned that since the USA now has ___________(how many?) prisons, crime rates in the USA have gone ____________?
6. *Mass incarceration is ______________?
7. *6.5 % of the USA is black. _____________% of our prison population is black.
8. *Segregation is _________________________ as apposed to discrimination which is _______________________?
3.
List six parts of the brain,
Explain the role each brain part plays, during your evening of watching the documentary.
NOTE: NO critical thinking skills are required for this one, #3.
Focus on getting the brain parts, ‘key terms’ right.
Scenario below:
You *walk across the room to make yourself a snack, then you *eating the snack, then you start *talking to friends about the documentary, you *hear and *understand them.
Refer to your text book as a guide for including the ‘key terms’ for the brain parts.
Include CT guidelines throughout your answers in order to earn full credit.
I used two CT guidelines used in the example above:
1. I ‘defined my terms’ (90% of African Americans end up in prison.”) and
2. ‘analyzed my assumptions’. I had ‘assumed’ the percent of African American in prison was 10%. J/K
BTW, both of these are incorrect percentages.
The actual percentage, which is much higher, is included early on in the documentary.
See the 8 guidelines for critical thinking below:
Refer to each CT guideline in (), by their name, not their #, in order to earn full credit.
Apply CT skills to your life today.
1. Ask questions; be willing to wonder.
2. Define the problem.
3. Examine the evidence.
4. Analyze assumptions and biases.
5. Avoid emotional reasoning.
6. Dont oversimplify (either/or thinking or overgeneralization).
7. Consider other interpretations.
8. Tolerate uncertainty.

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