COMMON BOOK AY 2011-2012

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”

• include broad based

involvement

• be tied to student learning

• address a college need

• be sustainable, and

• include a plan for

assessment

To meet the expectations ofour accrediting agency, theCommission on Colleges -Southern Association ofColleges and Schools (SACS),the QEP must:

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MVC’s Common Book ProjectSatisfies those criteria.

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Presenters:

Prof. Nathan Cole and Dr. Janice Franklin

+• “How might I use this book in my course(s)?”

• “I barely have time to cover the required material. I do not see how this fits in with my course(s).”

• “Will I need to write more Student Learning Outcomes for this? I don’t have time.”

• “Writing is not one of the competencies for my course.”

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How might I use this book in my course(s)?

+ Read the book

CBS Sunday Morning Interview with Rebecca Skloot

Henrietta Lacks - CBS Sunday Morning +

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If not the book in its entirety, identify sections that you can assign for reading by your students.

READ

THINK

DISCUSS

•SELECT

Review the Perspectives in

1. Establish broad and multiple perspectives on the individual in relationship to the larger society and world in which he or she lives, and to understand the responsibilities of living in culturally and ethnically diversified world;

2. Stimulate a capacity to discuss and reflect upon individual, political, economic and social aspects of life in order to understand ways in which to be a responsible member of society;

3. Recognize the importance of maintaining health and wellness;

4. Develop a capacity to use knowledge of how technology and science affect their lives;

5. Develop personal values for ethical behavior;

6. Develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments;

7. Use logical reasoning in problem solving and

8. Integrate knowledge and understand the interrelationships of the scholarly disciplines.

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Which of these perspectives attaches to your course?

What sections of the text can be useful toward

incorporating one of these perspectives?

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Use logical reasoning in problem solving

+Colleges/Universities

Examples of Programming

+University of Arkansas

Medical Ethics

Michael Hester, M.D., Medical Ethicist

“history of ethics in research and the difficult ethical issues in this year’s One Book selection: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

+ POSSIBLE ASSIGNMENT

• #1: Craft a 2-PAGE RESPONSE PAPER that contrasts the hospital’s position (PERSPECTIVE) with that of the Lack’s family.

• #2: Create a DISCUSSION BOARD ASSIGNMENT around this topic-

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Human cell in early cytokinesis: Matthew Daniels, Wellcome Collection

The photographs are part of the Biomedical Collection of London’s Wellcome Trust. In chapter 29 of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot describes a gift sent by Johns Hopkins cancer researcher Christoph Lengauer to the children of Henrietta Lacks, a fourteen-by-twenty inch print of Henrietta’s chromosomes. Lengauer developed the technique known as fluoresence in situ hybridization, or FISH, which involves applying dyes to chromosomes and exposing them to ultraviolet light. When chromosomes fluoresce under such light, researchers may discover important DNA trait information. Fluorescent HeLa cells, while cancerous, are often strikingly beautiful. Skloot describes Lengauer’sphotograph as resembling “a night sky filled with multicolored fireflies glowing red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and turquoise.”

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+ Henrietta’s Immortal Cells

These HeLa cells were stained with special dyes that highlight specific parts of each cell. The DNA in the nucleus is yellow, the actin filaments are light blue and the mitochondria—the cell's power generators—are pink. Palomar.edu

Whose Body Is It Anyway? New Short Plays

by Arkansas Playwrights

One Book, One Community and Bob Ford, visiting instructor in the University of Arkansas Drama Department, present Whose Body Is It Anyway? New Short Plays by Arkansas Playwrights, 11 a.m. Saturday, October 16. The Fayetteville Public Library hosts the event featuring five 10-minute plays inspired byThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

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+ POSSIBLE ASSIGNMENT• #3: Several visual artists have elected to incorporate human

cancer cells into their work. IDENTIFY, RESEARCH, and PREPAREa short written profile on one such artist.

• #4: This text is being translated into a film this fall. Prepare a SHORT ESSAY on the considerations involved in this process. What changes might occur during the process of moving this story into the film realm?

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+POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS

MVC Academic Divisions

Science, Nursing, Arts/Humanities and Physical Education

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• Biology, Anatomy & Physiology, Genetics

o -- Cell research, tissue, cancer, AIDS research, marrying cousins, genetic disposition, syphilis experimentation, tuberculosis experimentation, etc .

• Art

o -- Description of row houses, general store, hospitals, statue of Hopkins. Artistic detail in photos.

• Humanities

o -- perceptions of cultures, how does this affect our ideas of what it means to be human?

Business, Computers, Mathematics and Technical Programs

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o Accountingo Create a spreadsheet that reflects the revenue HeLa Cells have

generated over a determined amount of time. o Calculate the profits generated throught the distribution of HeLa

and the possible earnings that should be awarded to the Lacks family.

• Business

o -- Manufacturing, patent process.• Math/Economics

o -- Profitability of cell/tissue manufacture.

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• Educationo -- curriculum in grade school, research institutions

• Englisho -- Storytelling, writing, genres, biography, qualitative research, genealogy

• History

o -- Timeline of events including segregation, states of Virginia, Baltimore, tobacco production, medical testing on the disadvantaged.

• Government

o – Nuremberg Code, Hippocratic oath, Institutional Review Board, Federal Law, Nixon National Comm. Act, Judge Wapner verdict, Supreme Court resolutions, declarations.

• Sociology

o -- cultural divide, “cross the tracks”, passing for Puerto Rican, experimentation on less fortunate, Tuskegee, Nazis, Hela, community revitalization

Communications and Social Sciences

Through the use of the Common

Book as the vehicle for writing

across curriculum, we will have

1. Included broad based involvement

2. Tied the text to student learning

3. Addressed the need of the college toward satisfaction of the QEP requirement,

4. Incorporated a vehicle that has proven sustainability, and

5. Selected a project that offers a variety of opportunities for assessment and evaluation.

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Text Selected as Common Reading at other Institutions of Higher Education

• St. Bonaventure Universityhttp://www.sbu.edu/About_News.aspx?id=31240

• North Carolina State Universityhttp://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/bulletin/2010/12/2011-common-reading-announced/

• Tufts Universityhttp://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/archives/441/recommended-reading

• San Diego State Universityhttp://commonexperience.sdsu.edu/book_2010.html

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