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Intro + Body Paragraphs (DRAFTS)

12/12/2018

Please continue work on your introductory and body paragraphs for the Mastery Work research paper. See below for sample intro and body paragraphs:

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Finish your Research!

12/10/2018

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Be sure to FINISH your research for your Mastery Work essay for tomorrow! We will begin writing our essays tomorrow.

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Reading HW: Ch. 31 "Hela, Goddess of Death"

12/4/2018

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Please read Ch. 31, "Hela, Goddess of Death" and answer the following questions in your notebook:

Using details from the text, explain why it would be easy to believe that the Marvel super villain, Hela, was based on Henrietta Lacks.
Why did Deborah decide to go see her mother's cells? What obstacle almost kept her from doing so?

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Reading Homework for 12/3

11/30/2018

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DUE Monday 12/3

Please read Ch. 27 "The Secret of Immortality" + Ch. 28 "After London" 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?
What did Deborah hope would happen as a result of the BBC documentary?
Who was Keenan Kester Cofield? What are some of the incidents that happened between him and the Lacks family?

A BLOCK ONLY:
Answer only questions 3 + 4

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Reading HW 11/27/18

11/27/2018

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Finish reading Ch. 24 + working on your Surfacing Issues Tool --> Focus on the topics that you are interested in researching!

Check out the updated list of ideas for your Surfacing Issues Tool below:

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Thanksgiving Break!

11/21/2018

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Enjoy your breaks! If you did not finish reading "Part 2: Death" (up to chapter 22) of the novel, please make sure that you catch up over the long weekend.

There will be a QUIZ on Part 2 of the novel when we return from the weekend (11/26!). It will be very much like the quiz we took on Part 1 of the novel, so be sure that you are caught up with the reading!

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Weekend HW (due 11/19/18)

11/16/2018

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Please finish reading Ch. 18 "Strangest Hybrid" + answer the guided reading questions in your notebook.

What is spontaneous transformation?
Why were scientists worried that cell and tissue research was becoming a disaster?
Why did a committee of scientists form the ATCC?
What is somatic cell fusion? Why did scientists want to fuse human and animal cells?

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FOR A + B BLOCK ONLY!

Please either begin or finish reading Ch. 17, "Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable"
This chapter is GREAT for adding ideas to our Surfacing Issues Tool...so be sure that you're expanding on it! We will discuss the ideas from this chapter in class tomorrow.
Check out the image below to see some of the topics/issues we have brought up in class.

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For B + E Block ONLY:
Read Ch. 16 "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" to page 122 (up to the break). There will be a READING QUIZ on these pages...so be sure to do the reading!

Check out the info below if you still need help finishing the "Discoveries based on HeLa" assignment:

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Reading HW: Chapter 14

11/7/2018

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

Why did the authors of the 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.

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Intro + Body Paragraphs (DRAFTS)

Finish your Research!

Reading HW: Ch. 31 "Hela, Goddess of Death"

Reading Homework for 12/3

Reading HW 11/27/18

Thanksgiving Break!

Weekend HW (due 11/19/18)

Reading HW (11/14)

FOR A + B BLOCK ONLY!

Reading HW: Due 11/14/18

Reading HW: Chapter 14

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