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Posted on 21 September '11 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Lit Survey Semester Test Info/study guide
Literature Survey I
Study Guide
Semester I EXAM
Mr. Hickerson
Mrs. Eberhardt
Test format: Objective 45 questions
Essay—persuasive prompt related to the Internet
This semester test will assess your ability to read and comprehend grade level appropriate material related to our study in Lit Survey I. All readings/excerpts are provided on the test. Additionally, it will assess your ability to write a solid, well-developed piece of writing.
I. Read and Review:
Ben Franklin Speech to the Convention (p. 191)
Dr. Martin Luther King Letter From Birmingham City Jail (p. 180)
Excerpt from William Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech ( p. 875)
Excerpt from John Updike The Brown Chest (p. 1002)
2.Terms to review:
Author’s attitude
Evidence
Speaker
Speaker’s tone
Misplaced modifier
Main idea
Author’s purpose
3.Words to know (word bank):
Optimism
Bitterness
Skepticism
Precedent
Analysis
Precented
Prosperity
Equality
Disdainful
Humble
Patronizing
Inability
Obsessed
Editorial
Tranquil
Eerie
Slang
Tragic
Immortal
Context
Posted on 15 December '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Round #2 of the Exit Essay/Prompt
There will be students writing a second round of exit essays. Here is their prompt:
Karpati, Ron. “I Am the Enemy.” Crossfire and Argument. Ed. Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger. New York: Longman, 1997. 393-396. Print.
I am the enemy! One of those vilified, inhumane physician-scientists involved in animal research. How strange, for I have never thought of myself as an evil person. I became a pediatrician because of my love for children and my desire to keep them healthy. During medical school and residency, however, I saw many children die of leukemia, prematurity and traumatic injury—circumstances against which medicine has made tremendous progress, but still has far to go. More important, I also saw children alive and healthy thanks to advances in medical science such as infant respirators, potent antibiotics, new surgical techniques and the entire field of organ transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of the healthy, happy children drew me to medical research.
My accusers claim that I inflict torture on animals for the sole purpose of career advancement. My experiments supposedly have no relevance in medicine and are easily replaced by computer simulation. Meanwhile, an apathetic public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious politicians increasingly give way to the demands of the activists.
We in medical research have also been unconscionably apathetic. We have allowed the most extreme animal-rights protestors to seize the initiative and frame the issue as one of “animal fraud.” We have been complacent in our belief that a knowledgeable public would sense the importance of animal research to the public health. Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding to the emotional tone of the argument created by those sad posters of animals by waving equally sad posters of children dying of leukemia or cystic fibrosis.
Much is made of the pain inflicted on these animals in the name of medical science. The animal-rights activists contend that this is evidence of our malevolent and sadistic nature. A more reasonable argument, however, can be advanced in our defense. Life is often cruel, both to animals and human beings. Teenagers get thrown from the back of a pickup truck and suffer severe head injuries. Toddlers, barely able to walk, find themselves at the bottom of a swimming pool while a parent checks the mail. Physicians hoping to alleviate the pain and suffering these tragedies cause have but three choices: create an animal model of the injury or disease and use that model to understand the process and test new therapies; experiment on human beings—some experiments will succeed, most will fail—or finally, leave medical knowledge static, hoping that accidental discoveries will lead us to the advances.
Some animal-rights activists would suggest a fourth choice, claiming that computer models can simulate animal experiments, thus making the actual experiments unnecessary. Computers can simulate, reasonably well, the effects of well-understood principles on complex systems, as in the application of the laws of physics to airplane and automobile design. However, when the principles themselves are in question, as is the case with the complex biological systems under study, computer modeling alone is of little value.
One of the terrifying effects of the effort to restrict the use of animals in medical research is that the impact will not be felt for years and decades: drugs that might have been discovered will not be; surgical techniques that might have been developed will not be, and fundamental biological processes that might have been understood will remain mysteries. There is the danger that politically expedient solutions will be found to placate a vocal minority while the consequences of those decisions will not be apparent until long after the decisions are made and the decision making forgotten.
Fortunately, most of us enjoy good health, and the trauma of watching one’s child die has become a rare experience. Yet our good fortune should not make us unappreciative of the health we enjoy or the advances that make it possible. Vaccines, antibiotics, insulin and drugs to treat heart disease, hypertension and stroke are all based on animal research. Most complex surgical procedures, such as coronary-artery bypass and organ transplantation, are initially developed in animals. Presently, in undergoing animal studies are techniques to insert genes in humans in order to replace the defective ones found to be the cause of so much disease. These studies will effectively end if animal research is severely restricted.
In America today, death has become an event isolated from our daily existence—out of the sight and thoughts of most of us. As a doctor who has watched many children die, and their parents grieve, I am particularly angered by people capable of so much compassion for a dog or a cat but with seemingly so little for a dying human being. These people seem so insulated from the reality of human life and death and what it means.
Make no mistake, however, I am not advocating the needlessly cruel treatment of animals. To the extent that the animal-rights movement has made us more aware of the needs of these animals, and made us search harder for suitable alternatives, they have made a significant contribution. But if the more radical members of this movement are successful in limiting further research, their efforts will bring about a tragedy that will cost many lives. The real question is whether an apathetic majority can be aroused to protect its future against a vocal, but misdirected, minority.
Posted on 23 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Documented, persuasive essay detail
Documented, Persuasive Essay
DUE: MONDAY, November 22
No late papers
Late—grade lower
1.Business Letter—FYI info about your persuasive documented essay-asking for your paper to be read and considered
Formal language
2. Research proposal (1/2 page is plenty)
Explanation of what you intended to persuade/prove
http://researchproposalguide.com/
3.Annotated bibliography Your comments/evaluation
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
(Hacker, Strategies, The Owl)
4. The essay
MLA format
(Hacker, Strategies or The Owl)
5.Works Cited Page
(Hacker, Strategies or The Owl)
Posted on 19 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Eyes–Homework
Words for today: dissolution/affirmation/desist/expound/flounced/cosmic/comple/conjecture/mien/spry/malice
Briefly define these words.
Writing–relationships with Grandparents and what makes a good relationship?
Read Chapter 6
Posted on 17 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
“The Big Read”
Here’s a great resource for many literary works important to our culture and heritage.
http://www.neabigread.org/
Posted on 8 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
An Interesting Author and Life
Zora Neale Hurston is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. This woman lead quite an interesting life. Here is the link for the information on her hometown–Eatonville, Florida.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_M-PfhgMsg
Posted on 8 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” New Unit!
Starting on Monday, LS I students will begin their study of the American classic by Zora Neale Hurston. This remarkable book chronicles the life of one character at the turn of the century. Most students really enjoy the novel and the rich delineation of characters. I will be making a reading assignment over the Veteran’s Day break.
Posted on 5 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Lit Survey I TEST on Thursday
LS I students will write an in-class persuasive essay that counts as their test grade for the unit. The topic will be a universal one that anyone could respond to.
Posted on 3 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Quotation Sandwich–delish!
An excellent tool, and we all need tools and tricks, is the quotation sandwich. I have noted a link to a great site that details the QS and examples. Check it out!
http://drjuwmanitowoc.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-wants-tasty-quote-sandwich.html
Posted on 3 November '10 by seberhardt, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
