Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Yesterday, we started Into Thin Air, a novella about an ill-fated Everest attempt. Since I will not have you guys in class again before the break, there is no homework. We will begin reading upon your return. Enjoy the holiday.
ISHMAEL
We are looking at Part 8 today and maybe Monday. You have been given a short writing assignment for next Friday that asks you to use the search and highlighting functions of Kurzweil to extract all references to “Mother Culture” and then define and discuss the term in one page. Be sure to start this [...]
Ishmael
Read Part 7 for tomorrow. We went over Part 6 today and DJ asked a really good question:
What is Ishmael’s motivation?
We will come back to that question several times.
Please keep in mind the idea that the Takers civilization is like a flying machine that has gone off a cliff. The ground is rushing up to [...]
Vending Machine DBQ
We will begin looking at these essays on Monday. Please make sure they are ready.
Ishmael
Yesterday I demonstrated some of uses of the highlighting functions of the Kurzweil program in manipulating a text or texts. We looked at:
The use of Highlights to categorize and remove specific types of information from a text like vocabulary in yellow and definitions in green or pros in orange and cons in magenta.
We briefly discussed [...]
ISHMAEL
Due to the snow day that many of you had, we are backed up one day. Today, you should be read through page 75 at the end of Part 4 and have the questions finished and printed. For Friday, please be read through the end of Part 5, and have the questions done and printed [...]
Vending Machine DBQ
The finished Vending Machine DBQ should be completed by Monday (you will have tomorrow and Friday to complete it in class), when we will read them as a class and critique.
Please have the multiple choice questions (you printed them out in class) completed for homework for tomorrow.
