Please submit your weekly journal entry here. You should describe your observations and thoughts about what you acco

Question1: Please submit your weekly journal entry here.  You should describe your observations and thoughts about what you accomplished and your experiences of the Boston mayor election. How do you see the campaign going? What have you seen in the press or on social media? (around 300 words)

Question2: 1. Watch this VIDEO on the history of campaign ads.

2. Read this TIME article about the history.

3. Watch these VIDEOS on the the evolution of campaign videos 

Your Work – I have picked three other videos for you to watch and comment on.  Please share your thoughts about these campaign ads. Questions to consider: 1. What was the message? 2. What was the candidate trying to say? Was this effective?

Background Checks 

Squeal 

Doors 

Question 3: Please read this on the History of Protest Music and this analysis of the song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol and performed by Billie Holiday 

The lyrics to Strange Fruit are here.

Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop