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HW #10

Re-read/read and THOROUGHLY ANNOTATE/QUESTION/INTERACT through the end of paragraph 17 in Zoline.

Please complete Commentary Journal #4 for next week.

Please note that The Time Machine (pages 21-106) is due October 15th. There will be a big quiz assessing how thoroughly you read (passage ids). Trends 21 already got your books, but Trends 19, they are on the windowsill with your names in them. be sure you pick up the right one!

HW #9

Wow. We read 5-6 paragraphs. Review them. What do you see that we missed during class? What needs clarifying?

HW #8

Research the term/s you were assigned and be prepared to serve as expert to explain to the class. "Heat Death of the Universe" webquest.

Please complete Commentary Journal #3

HW #7

Review the short story you were assigned and look for evidence/quotes to illustrate theme, conflict, characterization.... We will have the class period to create an Educational Poster with the flavor of a Hollywod Movie Poster. Create/design the central image for your poster, list the characters you will need to include with a brief description, identify the conflicts and themes, and be ready with a clever "pitch" for your poster...

Please complete Commentary Journal #3 for Wednesday.

HW #6

Read "The Star" and expect a quiz.

HW #5

Read "Nightfall" + quiz.

HW #4

Read Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and expect a quiz. Complete Commentary Journal #2 to hand in, please.

HW #3

Read Franz Leiber's "A Pail of Air" and there will be a quiz.

Complete Commentary Journal #2 by Monday to hand in, please.

HW #2

Read Alfred Bester's "Adam and No Eve" and there will be a short quiz on teh reading at the start of class.

For class discussion: Consider comparing/contrasting the "human error" in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains."

Don't forget to complete another journal this week....

HW #1 Welcome back to school!

  • Please register yourself at www.turnitin.com with an email address you check frequently. The class ID is: 2857378 and the password is: surfturk. If you have any trouble, please email me: vgokturk@portnet.k12.ny.us. (10 points)
  • Complete the first entry for your COMMENTARY JOURNAL on LOOSELEAF or TYPED. I will collect this first one after we discuss it as a class. I'd really like you to think about how this course fits into the real world. Commentary for the Class. Rememebr, this these entries will serve as inspiration for your final project, an end of the world short story or film...By the end of the marking period, you will hand in 10 entries @ 10 points each.

    Journal Entries


    All journal entries are given 7-12 minutes of class time to complete. Unless otherwise noted, you should develop them as paragraphs. Keep writing! This is your time to make personal connections to the literature or analyze it. Most entries should be approximately 1 page unless otherwise noted. All entries are worth 10 points. PLease be sure to date, number, and title your entries.

    Handouts and Links

    General Stuff

  • End of the World Course Description
  • Class Participation Rubric
  • Notebook Rubric
  • Discussion Rubric
  • The Commentary Journal
  • Literary Circle Roles [please scroll to your assignment]
  • Glossary
  • Extra Credit
  • Outside Reading Assignment
  • How to Prepare for the Outside Reading Test
  • Outside Reading Small group Discussion Prep Sheet
  • Outside Reading Portfolio
  • Outside Reading group Discussion Assignment
  • Reader Response Guidelines for the Outside Reading
  • End of the World Final Project Options
  • Final Project Checklist (must be completed and attached as cover sheet to final project submission)
  • Tips for Writing the Literary Essay
  • Outline
  • Discovery Channel's Ancient Evidence: Revelations -- The End of the World?
  • Big Brother Pizza Place

    Media Clips

  • The Daily Show, "Cloudy with a Chance of Heatballs"
  • Ma href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-23-2009/our-dead-planet">THe Daily Show, "Our dead Planet"

    Unit I

    SHORT STORY UNIT

  • Educational Poster Group Assignment
  • Peer Evaluation Forms: Short Story Poster Assignment
  • Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall"
  • Isaac Asimov
  • "Nightfall" Group Work
  • Alfred Bester's "Adam and No Eve"
  • Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
  • Fredric Brown's "Puppet Show"
  • Stories by Fredric Brown
  • TP Caravan's "Random Sample"
  • Arthur Clarke's "The Star" & "Nine Billion Names of God"
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Group Work for Arthur Clarke's "The Star"
  • Understanding 2001: Space Odyssey
  • Group Work: Analyzing the Technology Short Stories
  • Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
  • Philip Jose Farmer's "The King of Beasts" and "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World"
  • Gaye Jee's "A Civilising Influence"
  • HG Wells' "The Star"
  • Comparing Asimov, Clarke, and Wells

    Short Story Project

  • Short Story Guidelines
  • Creating Characters Worksheet
  • Plot Graph
  • Peer Editing for the Short Story
  • Rubric for Short Story Final Project
  • Short Story Rubric

    Unit II

    Time and Entropy

    "Heat Death of the Universe"

  • TS Eliot's "The Hollow Men" (1925)
  • Pamela Zoline's "Heat Death of the Universe"
  • Annotate Zoline Story Project (200 points)
  • How to Cite for the Zoline Project
  • Rubric for Zoline Annotations Project
  • Heat Death Project Format Sample
  • Zoline Project Student Sample
  • Outline
  • Entropy Essay

    Time Machine

  • Time Machine Online Text
  • The Victorian Web
  • Victorian London
  • Victorian Links
  • Time Machine Vocabulary
  • Characterization in Chapters 1 & 2
  • Illustrating Characters and Setting
  • Illustrating Characterization
  • What Does the TT Value or Disdain?
  • Class Assignment: Time Machine Chapters 1-8
  • Time Machine Found Poem Assignment
  • Time Machine 1960 Film Assignment
  • Time Machine Journal Entry: Movie
  • How I Got Out Of Writing a Paper on The Time Machine
  • Time Machine Essay Options
  • Outline

    Unit III

    Natural Disasters

    Floods

  • Flood Myth Project
  • Flood Stories From Around the World
  • Flood Myth Project
  • Sample Flood Chart
  • Children's Flood Myths Book Rubric: Hard Copy
  • Children's Flood Myths Book Rubric: PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint Flood Myths Rubric

    Unit IV

    Evolution

    Planet of the Apes

  • Planet of the Apes Reading Schedule

    Earth Abides

  • Earth Abides Reading Schedule
  • Earth Abides Vocabulary List
  • Earth Abides Group Work Chapters 1-4
  • Ishi the Last Yahi Video Questions
  • Background on Ishi
  • Ishi the Last Yahi
  • Italicized Passage Analysis
  • Earth Abides Jigsaw Reading Project
  • Group Prep Assignment
  • Earth Abides Lesson Basics
  • Earth Abides Presentation Rubric
  • Ecclesiastes "Compilation" Handout
  • Earth Abides Themes
  • Earth Abides Essay Choices

    Unit V

    Utopia or Dystopia?

    Oryx and Crake

  • Oryx and Crake Reading Schedule
  • Oryx and Crake Vocabulary List
  • Group Work: Setting, Crake, & Jimmy
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • "Life After Man"
  • About the Author
  • Do you Believe in Crake?
  • Cloning Timeline
  • Dr. Frankentstein I Presume?
  • Religious Views on Cloning: NO Consensus [shows relions worldwide]
  • Cloning Myths Clarified
  • Illustrating Chracterization

    Unit VI: Film

    Twelve Monkeys

  • 12 Monkeys Journal/Study Guide
  • Twelve Monkeys Screen Play
  • Twleve Monkeys "Fact Sheet"
  • Twelve Monkeys Characters
  • Twelve Monkeys Theme Worksheet
  • Twelve Monkeys Post-Movie Discussion Worksheet

    The Matrix

  • Definition of Matrix
  • Significance of Names in The Matrix
  • Matrix Script
  • Philosophy in The Matrix
  • More Philosophy of the Matrix
  • Trapped in the Matrix
  • Messiah in the Matrix

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