Today's agenda:
1) Vocabulary in class writing--if you were absent, please plan on attending tutorials on Monday so that you can make it up.
2) Review Chapters 7-11 in Brave New World
3) Block 1: Finish the Cellphone seminar
3) Block 3: Discuss character and begin thinking about character portraits.
This weekend:
1) Prepare for your benchmark on Monday! Make sure that you remember how to write a thesis statement (topic, claim, three reasons) and how to develop the main idea of a paragraph based on evidence.
2) Complete your next blog post for Tuesday: Use the following article and the questions below.
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/22/494591738/breaking-taboo-swedish-scientist-seeks-to-edit-dna-of-healthy-human-embryos
This link also has a audio file embedded in it if you would prefer to listen to the article instead.
1) Vocabulary in class writing--if you were absent, please plan on attending tutorials on Monday so that you can make it up.
2) Review Chapters 7-11 in Brave New World
3) Block 1: Finish the Cellphone seminar
3) Block 3: Discuss character and begin thinking about character portraits.
This weekend:
1) Prepare for your benchmark on Monday! Make sure that you remember how to write a thesis statement (topic, claim, three reasons) and how to develop the main idea of a paragraph based on evidence.
2) Complete your next blog post for Tuesday: Use the following article and the questions below.
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/22/494591738/breaking-taboo-swedish-scientist-seeks-to-edit-dna-of-healthy-human-embryos
This link also has a audio file embedded in it if you would prefer to listen to the article instead.
- Describe the controversy depicted in this article. What are the arguments for both sides?
- What do you think about this controversy and why? Do you think that research on modifying genes in human embryos should continue? Why or why not?
- Ask your own level 3 question and answer it.
- How does this controversy connect to Brave New World? Do you think research like this could lead to a world at all similar to the civilized world in the novel? Why or why not?
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