REMINDERS: Due Tuesday Feb. 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

As of tomorrow, 1-28-11, all should be on page 220 of one of your two Independent Reading Books [IRBs], provided you started Tuesday, January 18 - at 20 pages per day. 75 points/book with WINDOWS or ANNOTATIONS

Another 50 points/book updated on www.goodreads.com by noon Sat. Feb. 5, 2011

Congratulations to all those who have already finished one book and have begun their second!

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Those who have not turned in their completed Windows, with answers to four Focus Questions below from Michael Johnathon’s 2009, “Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau”, can still download those and complete for partial credit. (Late grade = 80/100) 

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P3, P5, P7 and P8 must watch the remainder of PBS’s American Experience, “Walt Whitman”, by Mark  Zwonitzer, from PBS.org to be prepared for Tuesday or Wednesday quizzes from our last viewing. (Quiz = 40 points)

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Safe Search and annotate at least six [6] Nature - Nurture articles, studies, reports, analytical data for formation of groups in preparation for Feb. 9 -10 Debates. (100 points articles + 100 points debate = 200 pts.)

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Reflections from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” or/and “The Colbert Report”

DUE Monday Feb 28 -March 1, 2011

Write-ups recapping what was discussed, mocked or otherwise viewed is only part of these assignments.

Always RESPOND or REFLECT on a few of the items presented. Do you agree with what they or guests are saying. Comment on the mockery of serious new items. How do any of these new items correlate to you personally or texts, media, technologies familiar to you. (50 points/show) 


Two particularly good nights to view are

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-january-26-2011-jonathan-alter

January 26, 2011 - Jonathan Alter

State of the Union 2011 - Night of Too Many Promises

Republicans and Democrats risk physical contact with each other, and an audience member gets excited about her presidential shout-out. (21:52)

and
“The Colbert Report”
January 26, 2011 - Michael Waldman, Christine Yvette Lewis


CLICK ON DATES to go directly to specific 1-26-11 shows
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or
January 27th shows, especially “The Colbert Report”, with two guests talking Scientific discoveries

Brian Greene

Author, "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos"


January 27, 2011 - “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” 





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