12th ERWC
Value of Life #2
10/24 to 10/28
2016
See my website for handouts
www.cnusd.
k12.ca.us/
nohs
Articles in Student Reader, or on website or you can Google author/title.
If absent, complete all notes,
class and homework assignments / 1. Activity 36:
Read and annotate Text 4: Human Life Calculator
(on Act. 31-40 handout)
2. Activities 37-38
3. Watch the Steve Jobs Commence-ment Speech online
Follow in the
ERWC Reader
4. Highlight &
Comment:
What does Steve Jobs share with the gradua-ting class about the value of life? How does he value life? What does he think gives life value?
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5. Create 5 Socratic Seminar Questions with responses, based on the value of life. Create questions from the selections we read. Include text title & author in your questions. One question for each text.
**Do not quiz your
classmates** / 1. Finish reading
Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech. Highlight important points he makes about the value of life.
2. Read in Reader:
What is the Value of a Human Life (2008)
by Kenneth Feinberg
3. Read Feinburg’s
2014 article
on a handout
“What is Life Worth? Attorney Kenneth Feinberg Has the Answer”
4. Activity 40: Chart
Row #4
(on Activity 13)
Complete Row 4, using either the Human Life Value Calculator, Steve Jobs’ Speech or Kenneth Feinberg’s article. / VOL Chart due
Good Food/Bad Food
Activities 1-3 Handout
Activity 1: Quickwrite (½ pg.)
(**Write responses on paper)
Americans are at risk of disease because of the unhealthy food we eat. What will it take to get us to change our eating habits?
Activity 2: Surveying the Text
v  What do the titles “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause” and “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables” tell you about what the articles will be about?
v  Can you guess what “No Lunch Left Behind” is going to be about from its title?
v  All three articles were published in the New York Times. What can you predict about the articles? How do you think the articles will be the same? How do you think they will be different?
Activity 3:Making Predictions Brody’s Attacking the Obesity Epidemic
A. Before Reading:
Indicate which of the statements on the chart are true and which are false.
B. Read and Annotate the article.
C. After Reading: Label the statements true or false based on what you learned by reading the article. Record the # of the paragraph in which you found the info.
Do Not complete the Corrections Column / Fast Food Research due
**Attach Nutritional Info. to the back
Brody Annotations due
1. Activity 4:
Predictions
2. Activity 6:
Understanding
Vocabulary
Handout
(Get Activities 4, 5, 6 handouts)
We will complete Activity 5 on Monday.
Activities 1-5 will be collected
on Monday / 5 Socratic Seminar Questions with ¼ pg. responses due
VOL Socratic Seminar
Make Up:
Write an essay on the value of life. Should we place a value on life? Use the articles we read in this module to support your thesis/stance on the issue. Embed your quotes. Include a counter- argument & rebuttal.
Typed in MLAformat.
Write in paragraphs due Monday
Homework
/ 5 Socratic Seminar Questions with ¼ pg. responses due Friday / v  Finish VOL Chart
Row 4 due Wed.
v  5 Socratic Seminar
Questions with
¼ pg. responses
due Friday / Annotate Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by Jane E. Brody
(follow directions on the handout).
Finish Activity 3 AND
Fast Food Research Handout
**Attach Nutritional Info. to the back of the fast food handout OR it is zero! / 5 Socratic Seminar Questions
with ¼ pg. responses
due Friday