|Week 11: 11.3

Week 11: 11.3                 

Read: ABUNDANCE—Part Six: Steering Faster; ; eR—“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu, “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” By Brian Aldiss, “The Best Christmas Ever” by James Patrick Kelly, “Forever Yours, Anna” by Kate Wilhelm

Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations; PowerPoint: “Persuasion and the Toulmin Method”

Due: THE MODES OF PERSUASION: SHORT ANSWER RESPONSES

Upcoming:

Week 12: 11.10

NO CLASS : VETERANS DAY

|Short Answer Responses: Sci-Fi Short Fiction

Directions:

Answer questions 1-3, then any two questions between 4-7.

1. Which story has a character that most embodies the characteristics of ethos?
2. Which story’s plot most embodies the characteristics of pathos?
3. Which story relies most heavily on ethos for its premise (e.g. set up)?
4. For which character did you feel the most sympathy?
5. Which character ultimately compromised his/her/its authority?
6. Which character acts most illogically?
7. Taken as a whole, did the stories rely most on logos, pathos, or ethos?

Guidelines:

• All responses should be no more than 10 sentences—open each response with your thesis, then follow leaning more heavily on evidence than commentary
• Be very specific—quote extensively to support your thesis
• Clearly indicate which question you are answering, though questions do not have to be presented in order
• Write in the present tense 
• All titles should be in title case and inside quotation marks 
• All stories can be found in the eReader (to the right of this post)

Required:

• MLA Style

Due: Fri 11.3

|Future News 10.26

• New "church" is established to worship AI (Daily Mail)
• Elon Musk is not on board with worshiping AI (Independent)
• Artist's mirrored installation lets you enter a diamond (Inhabitat)
• Here is what children came up when asked what the houses of the future should look like (Co.Design)
• Regal Theaters to test "surge pricing" scheme for blockbuster films (Dark Horizons)
• SETI astronomer: We'll find intelligent alien life within 20 years (Newsweek)

|Week 10: 10.27

Week 10: 10.27
Read: ABUNDANCE—Part Five: Peak of the Pyramid; eR—“Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn, “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal, "Intro to Prom" by Genevieve Valentin, ""The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer

Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations; PowerPoint: “Understanding Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion”

Upcoming:

Week 11: 11.3                 

Read: ABUNDANCE—Part Six: Steering Faster; ; eR—“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu, “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” By Brian Aldiss, “The Best Christmas Ever” by James Patrick Kelly, “Forever Yours, Anna” by Kate Wilhelm

Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations; PowerPoint: “Persuasion and the Toulmin Method”

Due: THE MODES OF PERSUASION: SHORT ANSWER RESPONSES

|Future News 10.19

• Here is the future of CGI tech in film (FastCoDesign)
• How Stockton, California is pioneering basic income in the United States (Vox)
• Google's parent company, Alphabet, to build a city of the future in Canada (BBC News)
• The best spot for a lunar base may be inside a cave (Gizmodo)
• This may the the cruise you vacation on in the near future (Express)
• NASA: Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all—it's just not Pluto (Futurism)

 

|Week 9: 10.20

Week 9: 10.20
Read: ABUNDANCE—Part Three: Building the Base of the Pyramid
Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations
Due: ROGERIAN ARGUMENT: INFOGRAPHIC (DRAFT 1; BRING 2 COPIES—B&W OKAY); REFLECTION 4

Upcoming:

Week 10: 10.27

Read: ABUNDANCE— Part Five: Peak of the Pyramid; DB—Short Story Pack 1: “Ancient Machines” by Michael Swanwick, “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by Mike Resnick, “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn, “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal

Class: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations; PowerPoint: “Understanding Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion”

 

|Reflection 4: A More Perfect Union—On a Mixed Race America

President Obama was often lauded as our first black president, but he might've been more accurately identified as our first mixed race president. That he is viewed as a black president, when is actually half white, points to our country's complicated history with race. Indeed, President Obama may very have provided America a peek at its future. It is increasingly clear that 21st century Americas will look markedly different than those that came before them. Though still relatively small in numbers, mixed race Americans are already changing the racial landscape of the country—according to a 2013 study, a record 12% of newlyweds married someone of a different race. Consider also that future mixed race Americans will be further reshaping an already increasingly less white population. But just how will mixed race Americans reshape the country we know today? Are we evolving toward "a more perfect union" or will this racial trend eventually render our country unrecognizable to Americans of today?

Include at least two of the following pieces in your discussion:

• "The Changing Face of America" (National Geographic)
• "Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers" (Pew Research Center)
• "Mixed Race People are Changing the Face of America" (Huffington Post) 
• "What Makes Someone Identify as Multiracial?" (FiveThirtyEight)
• "Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color" (Atlantic)
• "Interracial Marriage: Who is ‘Marrying Out’?" (Pew Research Center)

Required:

• MLA Style
• Works cited 
• Two full pages in length

Due: Fri 10.20