Quick Preposition Section for the Midterm

Take the last 10 minutes of your midterm to answer these questions about prepositions and prepositional phrases.

"Into the Wild" vocabulary that will be on the midterm

Many of these "Into the Wild" words will be on your midterm exam. Click on the link, sign into Quizlet, and take the time to quiz yourself, make tests and test each other. I look forward to seeing and giving you credit for your scatter and learning scores.

Unit Reflection--Due Thursday Dec. 10, 2015

Midterm Essay Component

For 20 percent of your midterm grade, write an essay of three 11-sentence paragraphs explaining the solutions to the crises of leadership and loss of concentration the authors of Solitude and Leadership and Stop Googling worry about. Are they likely to work? Why or why not?

Use at least two examples from each essay to support your points. Be sure to say what Deresiewicz's and Turkle's views on education and our relationships with each other and what they think will help us.

You have time in class to write drafts Thursday and Friday. Use this time to receive feedback from teachers and fellow students.

Telling the Turkle and Deresiewicz story

In groups of three or four you will write a script--about two to four characters who overcome the real world challenges Turkel and Deresiewicz describe. You may have a narrator and actors or all be actors. Think of what we lose, according to the authors, and how we might get them back.

Your final scene will be scored Wednesday according to the following system:

Realistic-- even if exaggerated--characters Superhero, Villain, Citizens: 15 pts

Clear conflict--i.e. the main characters struggle believably: 15 pts.

Realistic, clear crisis and solution: 30 pts

Modified script format: 30 pts

CHARACTER NAME(s)--description


SETTING: present, past, future, geography, rooms place(s) etc.


ACTION: describe things that happen, or have happened that dialogue won't cover


For dialogue--here's a real script which we are just approximating.

example:

SUZY the EMPATHY EMPRESS:  How do you feel, CITIZEN GEORGE?

CITIZEN GEORGE: (looking at his phone) Who are you? Why do you want to know? Go away. I have to go back to work at DroneLand.

MR. DRONE:(coming into the room) GEORGE, where are you? Get back to work. Those phones won't answer themselves.

Computer survey

Please click here to take the survey Ms. Garney and Ms. Cox sent.

Please take this one too from the Electronic Freedom Foundation.