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Homework due 12/1

11/30/2017

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Read Chapter 27 “The Secret of Immortality” and answer the following questions in your notebooks:

What did Harald zur Hausen discover in 1984? How does this discovery relate to Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells? Be specific.
What is the Hayflick limit? Why were Henrietta’s cells not subject to the Hayflick limit?
Keep adding notes/ideas to your Surfacing Issues Tool.

In addition, your Part 2 Reflection TE/EA paragraph is also due tomorrow!

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Quiz on Part 2 tomorrow!

11/27/2017

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Finish reading Chapter 25 "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?" --> Continue adding to your Surfacing Issues Tool!

Quiz tomorrow 11/28 on “Part 2: Death” of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Quiz will also contain information from chapters 23-25! Be sure to study your notes and to review the chapters.

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Homework due 11.22.17

11/21/2017

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DUE WED 11/22/17

Finish reading Ch. 21 "Night Doctors" and answer the following questions in your notebooks:

What are two examples of the “disturbing truths” behind the story of the night doctors?
Why is the history of Hopkins hospital not pristine when it comes to black patients? What could “pristine” mean in this context?
What are the alternate perspectives about Johns Hopkins hospital? Which perspective does Skloot validate in this chapter?

In addition, please keep adding ideas to your Surfacing Issues Tool. Check the image below for new ideas. Remember! You need 5-7 issues in total.

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DUE 11/31/17

If you did not do so today in class, please FINISH reading Ch. 20 "The HeLa Bomb" and answering the discussion questions in your notebooks. It is important that you come to class prepared to review tomorrow!

What did Stanley Gartler reveal at the Second Decennial Review Conference on Cell Tissue and Organ Culture? What significance did Gartler’s findings have the theory of spontaneous transformation?
What specific qualities in the HeLa cells allowed them to contaminate other cell cultures so easily?
Why was this devastating news for the scientists who heard his talk?
Why will the effort to develop markers for HeLa contamination require contacting the Lacks family?

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Reading Homework

11/16/2017

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TILOHL Reading HW#2

11/14/2017

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DUE tomorrow 11/15/17

Please read Chapter 16 "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" up until the break on pp. 122.

There will be a reading quiz to check the work!
Be sure to keep updating your Surfacing Issues Tool as you read!

In addition, your work on Ch. 13 (Important Discoveries Thanks to HeLa) is due any time on or before Friday 11/17. Instructions, sample work and details below:

Directions:

Decide which discovery/advancement you want to work on.
Decide how you want to break the process into 4 steps. Choose quotes, decide on illustrations, etc.
SKETCH IN PENCIL FIRST! No extra handouts.
Be sure to CITE your evidence correctly.
When explaining the evidence in your own words, be sure to offer some insight into the process/idea/discovery that is being discussed.
Complete your work! Make it colorful and informative.

See below for sample work.

List of Discoveries/Innovations

Explain how a neutralization test is used to determine a vaccine’s efficacy.
Explain what growing in suspension is and how HeLa is involved.
Explain how a virus reproduces and show why/how HeLa cells are particularly useful to study viruses.
Demonstrate how/why freezing cells was an important scientific discovery.
Explain how HeLa helped to standardize tissue culture.
Show how HeLa cells led to new understanding of genetics/genetic diseases.
Your own choice (check with a teacher first!)

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TILOHL Reading HW

11/13/2017

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DUE Tuesday 11/14/17

Read Chapter 14 "Helen Lane" and answer the following questions, in FULL sentences, in your notebooks:

Why did the authors or two articles want to include Henrietta’s name in the articles?
What was Gey’s position on using Henrietta’s name?
Summarize the various factual errors that appeared in the stories about HeLa.
Why didn’t Henrietta’s family know that her cells were still alive?

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TILOHL Reading HW

11/8/2017

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DUE MON 11/13

Finish reading Chapter 13 “The HeLa Factory” to pp. 97 (right up until the break). Answer the following question in yor notebook:

What discoveries did HeLa play a part in?

Continue working on and adding ideas to your Surfacing Issues Tool as you read!

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Homework DUE 11/8/17

11/6/2017

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REMEMBER…your first drafts of MW#2 are due Wednesday 11/8/17! Be sure to:
- Have all 4 TE/EA paragraphs completed.
- Note that first drafts can be typed or handwritten.
- Use the RUBRIC and the ASSIGNMENT to guide your work…be sure you are meeting ALL aspects of the assignment!
Finish reading an annotating your articles, come to class tomorrow prepared to share out your ideas and discoveries!
- Check out the criteria for annotation below. Make sure that you are hitting all the major points!

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Homework: Counterclaim Paragraph

11/3/2017

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Finish your counterclaim paragraphs over the weekend. By Monday you should have at least THREE of your paragraphs complete!

REMEMBER…first drafts are due Wednesday 11/8/17!!! See below for sample counterclaims and a model paragraph.