Friday, January 8, 2016

English 10B 2016 Week 1 ( Subject to change)

English 10B

Date
Class work
Homework
1/11
·      Register for new turnitin.com account and Engrade.com
·      Turn in Brave New World Questions and Dialectical Journal for Brave New World
·      Code for Credit updates

Driving Question: Is Genome Editing Fact or Science Fiction?   Is Huxley’s Brave New World a possible reality? 

All articles can be found in BOX! 
Annotate A Pause to Weigh Risks of Gene Editing and If You Could Design Your Baby’s Genes, Would You?  Handout


Jennifer Doudna Ted Talk

We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely | Jennifer Doudna | TED Talks
Complete and Label Skill #1
Select and explain new Vocabulary used in article and video.  10 words.
Use Google docs so you can create and easily enter in your electronic portfolio.  If you handwrite you will eventually have to scan in!

Read Aloud Of A Pause to Weigh Risks of Gene Editing and If You Could Design Your Baby’s Genes, Would You? 


A Pause to Weigh Risks


 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/crispr-gene-editing-213425


Annotate this time for Skill#3
(Figurative language elements, logical appeals, data, facts…)
Prepare to answer Driving Question and create 5 Socratic Seminar questions based on Brave New World and current science news.
Vocabulary

Dystopian
Repugnant
Biocapitalism
Prescient
Aggregate
Socratic Seminar #1 on Brave New World

Prompt:
Agree or disagree that genome editing signals that the dystopian potential of designer human’s described by Huxley has arrived.  Please be sure to cite “Brave New World”, both of the assigned articles, and the video. Make sure that you provide a properly Formatted MLA Works Cited list and use parenthetical citations.  Be careful not to simply aggregate quotes (a form of plagiarism).  Think about the ideas and use your own words!
“ I Will Statement for Brave New World Paper”

Discussion


Roman Numeral Outline for “Brave New World”
Finish Outline and Prepare for Timed Essay on Monday.


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