Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading
2) Use the tv listings to analyze our cultural traits
3) Read the opening of Beowulf and discuss their cultural traits
Coming up:
1) Blog post is due on Thursday of this week. Use the following article and questions:
Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37846860
Questions:
1) What is the issue here? What are all the problems associated with fake news, its consumption, and its regulation?
2) Do you think Facebook, Google, and other sites should regulate fake news in any way? If so, why and how? If not, why not?
3) One idea brought up in this article is to better educate people to read things critically online. Do you think this would help? How do you think this could be done?
4) Find one other article on this topic. What new and interesting element or angle to this story did you find in that article? What made it interesting?
5) Write your own level 3 question about this topic and answer it.
2) Prepare for your seminar on Friday
3) Vocabulary list is due on Monday.
1) Silent reading
2) Use the tv listings to analyze our cultural traits
3) Read the opening of Beowulf and discuss their cultural traits
Coming up:
1) Blog post is due on Thursday of this week. Use the following article and questions:
Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37846860
Questions:
1) What is the issue here? What are all the problems associated with fake news, its consumption, and its regulation?
2) Do you think Facebook, Google, and other sites should regulate fake news in any way? If so, why and how? If not, why not?
3) One idea brought up in this article is to better educate people to read things critically online. Do you think this would help? How do you think this could be done?
4) Find one other article on this topic. What new and interesting element or angle to this story did you find in that article? What made it interesting?
5) Write your own level 3 question about this topic and answer it.
2) Prepare for your seminar on Friday
3) Vocabulary list is due on Monday.
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