THe Fishy Risk the FDA is Taking with Your Health
HW #18.5 Soylent Green/Delicatessen In-Class Essay prompts
Next period, you will write a critical lens essay analyzing both films. Your job will be to choose one of the following lenses, interpret it into your own words, and prove how the films either support or refute your interpretation. You may prepare an index card "cheat sheet" -- choose your lens, interpret it, and prepare the text based evidence from the films that will help support your analysis. No email or Internet use. Your note card must be handwritten.
1. “… although the world is full of suffering, it is full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
2. “All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.” -- James Reston
3. “The real hero is always a hero by mistake…” -- Umberto Eco
4. “…it is the human lot to try and fail...” —David Mamet
5. “Attention Must Be Paid.” The New York Times
6. “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” —Yann Martel
7. “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” —Bernadette Devlin
8. “It is not what an author says but what he or she whispers that is important.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
9. “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” --¯ Albert Einstein
HW #18 (50 points)
Overpopulation Creative Writing Scene
HW #17
Read Philip Jose Farmer's "The Sliced-Crosswise-Only-on-Tuesday World."
Earth's Most Typical Person
HW #16
Revisit and re-annotate "The Hollow Men."
Choose your Entropy Essay topic and construct a strong and interesting position statement (thesis). It should be arguable and specific. Stay away from generalizations. We will spend the next two classes writing in a lab.
HW #15
Re-read the paragraphs we covered in class. Using a different color pen, annotate further.
If we did not finish the story together, please finish it on your own. Read and annotate the remaining paragraphs twice, using different color ink.
As you review the final paragraph, consider: 1. Why the switch in tenses? 2. Why the emphasis on the open mouth? 3. WHy the eggs?
I will collect your Z0line annotations. YOu will be given a letter grade based on the rubric I gave you (5 = A, 4 = B, 3 = C, 2 = D, 1 = E, 0 = F).
"A Final Smash for America's Giant Particle" Collider
HW #3
Did you remember to register with our class on turnitin?
Read Flood packet (pages 121-129). Annotate. Pay attention to THE COMMON ELEMENTS...
HW #2
Please read Crumb's "Book of Genesis" graphic "novel." Pay attention to the artisit's interpreatation of the text/themes. What is emphasized? Is anything unepxepected? Read his intrp.
If you haven't already, please register with our class on turnitin. Your class ID: 4298091 Password: gokturk
TRENDS COURSE DESCRIPTION
HW #1 Welcome back to school!
Please write a single spaced one page description of what would make the perfect world for humans. Don't repeat yourself. Stretch for new details. You may use 1st or 3rd person narration.
Please go to www.turnitin.com and register with our class. Class ID: (see your course description sheet) and password is: gokturk.
Please complete the writing prompt if it was not completed in class.
Journals
You'll be speaking to the book in this unit. Write with effort and thought!
- General Impressions. What are your thoughts about the first thirty pages? What strikes you about Atwood's language/style? What predictions can you make about how/why Snowman's world came to be based on what evidence we glean from Jimmy's world?
- Passage Reaction. Write out a passage with page number citation and respond to the text from a part of our reading (pages 37-68). Speak to the passage. What is it saying? How is it saying it? Why is it saying it? What does it make you reflect upon? You may respond in a personal way or how it develops issues in the text.
- Jimmy and Glenn/Crake's World. React to the activities in which Jimmy and Glenn partake. Comment on the games, drug use, and sites. What does Atwood want us to think?
- Disturbing World. What most disturbed you about our last reading (95-126)? Cite/show a passage or section and react. Why do you suppose Atwood presented us with this?
- Character Mindsets. Describe the mindset/philosphy/approach to life or humanity/individuality for each: Oryx, Crake, Jimmy, Snowman, and the Crakers.
- Blue Love. Reread pages 164-166, the description of the adaptations Crake has made to the Crakers regarding mating. React. Do you understand why Crake has made these changes? Do you think it's a good idea? Why or why not? What do you think of Jimmy/Snowman's reaction? Would the world be a better place without the difficulties of love?
- Passage Reaction (192-218). Choose a passage you felt was important while you read. Copy it, react to it, and explain why you think it's important. You may have a personal response or address its importance to the novel or both.
- Passage Reaction (222-252) Choose a passage you felt was important while you read. Copy it, react to it, and explain why you think it's important. You may have a personal response or address its importance to the novel or both.
- Lab Grown Meat? Read the articles in the genetically created meat packet. React. What do you think? Consider your person view as well as the long term impact, positive and/or negative. Focus on the point/s you think are most important.
- Suttee? Why does Crake kill Oryx?
- Same or Different? Reread the first (pages 3-4)paragraphs of the first chapter and the first section of the last chapter (page 371-372). What is the same? What has changed? Why?
- OPTIONAL ENTRY: Genetic Engineering. Finish the articles in the Ear-on-Mouse packet. Is it morally right to create new animal species? Why or why not? Is it morally right to splice human DNA with animal DNA? Why or why not? Are there times that are more right than others? Explain.
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