1. Read your lit circle novel for ten minutes.
2. Click here and take prepositional phrase pre-assessment.
3. Read one of the Popular Science articles below and complete the news report questions (see below):
Monkeys Control Two Virtual Arms With Just Their Thoughts
Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk
Vitamin B2 Can Be Used to 3D Print Medical Implants
New, Incurable Botulin Strain Has Top-Secret DNA
If You Can Smell This You May Not Have Alzheimer's
Lasers 3D Print a Home For Bacteria
Is it Possible to Control Our Dreams?
FDA Has Approved the First Artificial Pancreas
Turn A Heart On and Off With the Flick of a Switch
AIG: Scientists Recreate the Sense of Touch With Direct-To-Brain Electric Signals
AIG: Scientists Plant False Short-Term Memories Directly in Rodent Brains
Ms. Pickens/Collins: Measure your heart rate using headphones
Once you've read the whole article, answer the following News Report questions in the Reader Response section of your notebook. Make sure you use commas correctly in your responses!
1. Summarize the main ideas of the report - Include enough information to explain the report in full detail.
2. Why is the report significant to the world? Think globally!
3. In complete sentences, state two interesting facts about the report.
4. What is your overall opinion about the topic of the report? Is the scientific discovery helpful or harmful for humans?
4. Click on one of the links below and practice your comma skills!
Comma skills test
AIG: Comma skills test
Challenge: Comma splices and fused sentences assessment
5. Work on Cornell Notes for ortho, psycho, and pyro
6. Start reading response letter or continue reading lit circle novel.
Homework:
Complete News Report (if not finished in class). Due Wednesday, 11/20
Work on Vocabulary Cornell notes for: ortho, psycho, pyro (Due Friday, 11/22)
Work on Reading Response Letter for dystopian fiction novel (Due Friday, 12/13)
Grammar home practice:
Comma skills test
AIG: Comma skills test
Challenge: Comma splices and fused sentences assessment
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