Author: Charles Ian Chun

Please complete the following before our next class:

Pg. 209-10 – Reading Skill, Exercises A and B

Pg. 211-12 – Reading 2 Vocabulary

Pg. 212-3 – Read “Social Networking Sites: Are They Changing Human Communication?”

Pg. 214-5 – Main Ideas and Details

Questions to guide your reading: Social Networking Sites: Are They Changing Human Communication?

• How do people use the Internet to communicate?
  • What do some people fear because of technology?
  • Are there good reasons to fear this?
• Who is Himanshu Tyagi, and what did he warn us about?
  • Why would social networking sites have a negative effect?
• What does Dr. Aric Sigman think could happen because of our use of social networking sites?
  • What kinds of biological results could there be?
• What did scientist Susan Greenfield say could result?
  • How would our minds become more childlike?
• Are there positive aspects of social networking sites?
  • What are they?
• What lesson can we learn from examining the positive and negative aspects of social networking sites?

See you in class!

Please complete the following before our next class:

Pg. 191-3 – Reading Skill, Exercises A and B

Pg. 193-4 – Reading 2 Vocabulary

Pg. 194-5 – Read “More Than a Game”

Pg. 195-6 – Main Ideas and Details

Questions to guide your reading: More Than a Game

• Where did the 2005 pandemic discussed in “More Than a Game” take place?
• What do people do in World of Warcraft?
• How did the pandemic happen?
• Who are Nina Fefferman and Eric Lofgren, and what did they say about the outbreak?
• How did the virus spread?
• Who is Blizzard and how did they try to control the pandemic?
• How was the problem finally solved?
• What do Fefferman and Lofgren think is important to study about pandemics?
• How is the case with World of Warcraft useful to scientists?

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Please complete the following before our next class:

Pg. 204 – Exercises C and D

Pg. 205 – Reading 1 Vocabulary

Pg. 206-7 – Read “2b or not 2b”

Pg. 208-9 – Main Ideas and Details

Also, prepare to answer the following discussion questions in class:

• Which social networking sites (like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, KakaoStory, Cyworld) do you use? Why are some better than others?
• How do you communicate with your family and friends when you’re apart?
  • Do you text? Do you use KakaoTalk? Other apps?
  • Do you still use your phone for talking?
• What are some common abbreviations you use (in English or Korean) when texting?
  • Ex. LOL = Laughing Out Loud
  • Ex. ROFL = Rolling On the Floor Laughing

Questions to guide your reading: 2b or not 2b?

• What kinds of names are being given to texting?
• How have people thought of the effect of technology on language?
  • What kinds of feelings has texting caused?
• What is different about texting?
  • Do people break rules of language randomly when texting?
  • How are people who text changing language?
• What is a rebus?
  • How long have we been rebuses?
  • What shortened words from long ago are commonly used today?
• What is novel (new) about texting today?
  • Are there benefits to texting this way?
  • What is the effect on literacy?

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Please complete the following before our next class:

Pg. 186 – Exercise C

Pg. 187-8 – Reading 1 Vocabulary

Pg. 188-9 – Read “Flu FAQ”

Pg. 189-91 – Main Ideas and Details

Also, prepare to answer the following discussion questions in class:

• What do you do to stay healthy?
• It’s flu season. Are you worried about catching a cold or the flu?
  • What are you doing to prevent (예방하려고) a cold or flu?
• When was the last time you were sick? What happened? How did you get better?

Questions to guide your reading: Flu FAQ

• This reading is organized in Q&A (Question and Answer) format. There are no additional questions to guide your reading.

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Write five sentences, each one stating an interesting fact with numbers.
Do not repeat facts classmates have shared.

Examples:

1. Between 250 and 380 people speak the Pirahã language.
2. The United States’ national debt is over $17,000,000,000,000.
3. South Korea’s unemployment rate is around 3%.
4. Tobacco use kills more than 5,000,000 people every year.
5. Someone once paid $1.3 million for a cow.

Your facts are DUE THURS 13 NOV, 11:59 pm
Your reply to your classmate is DUE FRI 14 NOV, 11:59 pm

Answer the question below in a short paragraph. (75-100 words)

The actor Paul Newman spent the last years of his life donating hundreds of millions of dollars to charities through his brand Newman’s Own. Do you know of any other celebrities who have used their fame to help others?

Explain:

• who this person is (an actor, a politician, etc.),

• what cause they’ve been supporting (fighting disease, helping the poor, etc.), and

• what effects their efforts have had.

Write five sentences, each one stating an interesting fact with numbers.
Do not repeat facts classmates have shared.

Examples:

1. Between 250 and 380 people speak the Pirahã language.
2. The United States’ national debt is over $17,000,000,000,000.
3. South Korea’s unemployment rate is around 3%.
4. Tobacco use kills more than 5,000,000 people every year.
5. Someone once paid $1.3 million for a cow.

Your facts are DUE THURS 13 NOV, 11:59 pm
Your reply to your classmate is DUE FRI 14 NOV, 11:59 pm

Write five sentences, each one stating an interesting fact with numbers.
Do not repeat facts classmates have shared.

Examples:

1. Between 250 and 380 people speak the Pirahã language.
2. The United States’ national debt is over $17,000,000,000,000.
3. South Korea’s unemployment rate is around 3%.
4. Tobacco use kills more than 5,000,000 people every year.
5. Someone once paid $1.3 million for a cow.

Your facts are DUE WED 12 NOV, 11:59 pm
Your reply to your classmate is DUE THURS 12 NOV, 11:59 pm

Write five sentences, each one stating an interesting fact with numbers.
Do not repeat facts classmates have shared.

Examples:

1. Between 250 and 380 people speak the Pirahã language.
2. The United States’ national debt is over $17,000,000,000,000.
3. South Korea’s unemployment rate is around 3%.
4. Tobacco use kills more than 5,000,000 people every year.
5. Someone once paid $1.3 million for a cow.

Your facts are DUE WED 12 NOV, 11:59 pm
Your reply to your classmate is DUE THURS 12 NOV, 11:59 pm

Please complete the following before our next class:

Pg. 186-7 – Reading Skill

Pg. 187-8 – Reading 2 Vocabulary

Pg. 189-90 – Read “Money Makes You Happy — If You Spend It on Others”

Pg. 191-2 – Main Ideas and Details

Questions to guide your reading: Money Makes You Happy — If You Spend It on Others

• Can money buy you happiness?
• What is the correlation between amounts of money and gains in happiness?
• How was this correlation tested?
• What did the research show?
• How was the study conducted?
• What is “prosocial” spending? What effect did it have on people’s happiness?
• What did researchers learn from Tim and Dan?
• Does other research support this?
• What does Tal Ben-Shahar ask his students to do? What results do the students get?
• What did the Science study show about the amount of money spent?
• Did the amount of money matter? Who gained more happiness?
• Does this mean money isn’t important?
• Why is how one spends their money more important?
• Why don’t more people realize that spending money on others is a reliable road to happiness?
• How did Professor Dunn give her family the gift of giving?

See you in class!