Personal Response ENG4U

Select ONE of the following excerpts from Louis C.K.’s appearance on The Conan O’Brien Show and write a Personal Response to it.

NOTE: The videos you will view are suitable for a Gr. 12 English class and appeared on network television.

YOU ARE NOT being asked to view any other videos by Louis C.K. who can be very profane and vulgar in his comedy – you do NOT need to follow any other online links.

1) “Everything is amazing right now and nobody's happy.”

2) "[We] live in, in an amazing, amazing world and it's wasted on the, on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care because, this is what people are like now."

From: Appearance on the Conan O’Brien Show (undated):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E

3) “You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something. That’s what the phones are taking away” (1:52).

From “Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones” The Conan O’Brien Show (Sept. 20, 2013):

http://teamcoco.com/video/louis-ck-springsteen-cell-phone

You will be marked according to the following rubric:

APPLICATION 0 1 2 3 4

- author’s position stated in the student’s own words

- student’s position stated and compared with the author’s view

THINKING 0 1 2 3 4

- specific examples from personal experience or observation to support the student’s position

- judgement made or conclusion drawn

COMMUNICATION 0 1 2 3 4

- quality of writing (sentence structure, spelling, and grammar)

- appropriate tone for a personal writing style