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1. What is Barbie’s full name?
A. Barbara Ann Allen
B. Barbara Susan Jones
C. Barbara Millicent Roberts
D. Barbara Jane Simpson
E. Barbara Joyce Rogers

3. What was the chapter
“Skeptics May Object”
about?
What were its main points?

4.  Write an open-ended, interesting question for
discussion about “Monkey Love”
 Get into groups of four

5. A. Before 5:00 a.m.
B. Between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
C. Between 6:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.
D. Between 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
E. After 9:30 a.m.

6.  Write an open-ended, interesting question for
discussion about “Monkey Love”
 Get into groups of four
 Decide who woke up the earliest in your group
 That person is the dealer
 The dealer should take all of the cards and mix them
up face down
 The dealer should deal one card to the first group
member
 He or she has a minute or two to answer the question
 The rest of the group should then discuss the question
for four minutes
 When the four minutes are up, the dealer should deal
one card to the next group member and repeat the
same answering process
 The last card is the dealer’s!

8. Report Essay
Topic
•often a topic
without opposing
sides (for example,
weightlifting)
•usually a question,
proposition, or
theory (for
example, should
parents install
spyware on home
computers to
monitor their
children’s
activities?)

9. Report Essay
Purpose
•to investigate and
present information
thoroughly and
logically
•to articulate a well-
argued response to a
question or
proposition through
examples and
references
•to present a writer’s
informed theories
and opinions
•to analyze or argue
a point

10. Report Essay
Reader
•one who intends to
gain knowledge on
the subject (reading
for reference)
•reasonably
intelligent,
thoughtful adults
who will have
opinions on the
topic (some may
disagree with the
thesis)

11. Report Essay
Format
•often uses
Chicago style
(footnotes and
bibliography)
•depends heavily
on sources
•comprises
sections with
headings
•MLA format (in-
text citations,
works cited page)
•integrates sources
•usually does not
include sections

12. Report Essay
Style
•has to be
objective
•presents
information to the
reader
•can be subjective
•writer uses
sources to create a
conversation
•sources are
commented upon,
elaborated, or
exemplified by
writer

13. Report Essay
Assessment
Success depends on:
•the demonstration
of good research
skills
•the objective
presentation of
relevant information
Success depends on:
•the interest of the
argument
•how the essay
relates one point to
the next and how
well it establishes
the position
•having a clear,
readable, interesting
style

14. Facebook is a social networking phenomenon that has taken the
United States by storm and gained universal popularity.
Facebook has more than one-half trillion members; 1 out of
every 12 people on the planet has a Facebook account. More
than 70% of those accounts are outside of the United States.
Membership grows by almost three-quarters of a million
people each day. If Facebook were a country, only China
and India would surpass it in population (Grossman, 2010).
About a billion new pieces of information are posted on
Facebook each day (Stengel, 2010). Mark Zuckerberg created
Facebook as a Web service from his Harvard University
dorm room in February 2004 when he was a 19-year-old
student. Last December, Time named the Facebook founder
its 2010 Person of the Year. The now 26-year-old joins a list
of honorées who have included American Presidents,
royalty, and Nobel Laureates.
(Siegle, D.. "Facing Facebook: A Guide for Nonteens. " Gifted Child Today 1 Apr. 2011: General Interest Module, ProQuest. Web. 16 Mar. 2011.)

15. But Facebook friends and social networking are not adequate
substitutes for authentic friendship. We long for relationships
with people who know us so well that their lives impact and
influence ours. Young people love the high-tech world of
multitasking and interactive media, but like the rest of us, they
long for personal intimacy. On our campus, we are converting
spaces in dorms back to common rooms because of the increasing
desire of undergraduates to gather together in small groups.
We may have multiple social networks and thousands of
acquaintances and still find ourselves profoundly lonely. A
sociological study found that between 1985 and 2004 the average
American's number of close confidants declined from three to two,
and that those reporting "no close confidants" jumped from 10 to
25 percent. Lynn Smith-Lovin, one of the study's authors, noted
that "you usually don't expect major features of social life to
change very much from year to year or even decade to decade."
But the data suggest a "remarkable drop" in the number and
quality of friendships in American culture. The findings also
confirm and amplify my anecdotal sense that more and more
"connected" people, from CEOs to talented youth and young
adults, are struggling with loneliness.
(Jones, L. Gregory. "My Facebook friends." Christian Century 15 July 2008: 35. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Mar. 2011.)

16.  I told some students on Essay #1 that I wanted
to see them at the end of class. If you did not
check your essay grade/feedback and therefore
are not sure if you are one of those students,
please see me at the break and I will let you
know.

18. The human species is in peril of becoming extinct.
Each country with space shuttles has two days to
send a group of people to the Space Station to live
indefinitely in order to repopulate the Earth, should
things progress to total annihilation. The United
States’ powers-that-be have chosen its five-member
mission crew and have narrowed its passenger pool
to the below twenty-six healthy people. Your job as
the commander is to create a seven-person passenger
list. The passengers must be able to aid in
repopulation and in sustaining life inside the Space
Station and afterward in the post-Apocalyptic world.
Record your reasoning for each choice.

19.  Decide who the other six passengers
will be
 Explain how you chose the six
passengers in a paragraph for each

20. A. Yes
B. I think so, but I don’t
remember any of it!
C. No

21. Link

26. A. Put All Your Cards on the Table/
“Monkey Love” discussion
B. Report vs. Essay
C. Critical Thinking Exercise
D. Lord of the Flies Introduction
E. “Skeptics May Object”/ “So What?
Who Cares”

27. A. Paraphrasing/Quoting
B. Essay #2
C. “Skeptics May Object”/ “So
What? Who Cares?”
D. Report vs. Essay
E. “Monkey Love”

29. Due Tuesday, March 3 at 11:55 p.m.:
 Complete two peer reviews for Essay #2 on Turnitin
Due Thursday, March 5 at 11:55 p.m.:
 Post to the weekly discussion on Moodle
Due Sunday, March 8 at 11:55 p.m.:
 Submit to PaperRater.com and send the results to me
 Submit your final draft of Essay #2 to Turnitin
 Respond to at least two students in the Moodle discussion
Due Monday, March 9 at 11:55 p.m.:
 Watch the EP video lessons “Writing for Your Audience”
and take the quiz
Due Tuesday, March 10 at the beginning of class:
 Read “As a Result” (Chapter 8 of They Say/I Say) and come
to class prepared to discuss
 Read chapters 1-6 of Lord of the Flies and complete the
Metacognitive Reading Log