Chapter 4 Review Chapter 5 Review

Advocate Issue ExamplesTopic ReviewClass Work

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT We have seen the “Hero” side of our final paper;

Now to explore the “Advocate” side.

Advocate: n. Someone who speaks in support of something.

We usually associate the

Word “advocate” in legal issues

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT Chapter 4: 157-8.

Living Under Circe’s Spell: Perceptions of ability

Difference Between Pity and Empathy: “Bedside manner”, patients’ emotional health importance

If The Genes Fit: LGBT Marriage, Civil Rights

Black Men and Public Spaces: Trayvon Martin shooting / other news items

Discrimination at Large: Public Transportation, Airlines charging more for bigger customers

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT Chapter 4 (Cont.)

Diabesity: Diabetes and obesity: city v country? And why, if there is a difference? Culture? Economics.

Bodily Harm: How do we teach girls to avoid this? At what age? Can we engage advertisers to promote a healthier “ideal?”

Six Rules for Eating Wisely: Search about “Con-Agra”, or “Kraft”; how healthy are our food choices?

Using even the random search bar at Firefox, you can develop these topics into a more specific search/ idea.

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT Chapter 5 (p 218-9)

Whole World is Watching: Internet creates accountability; FB blunders and business awareness/ presence

Youtube This! The internet is scattershot, and random; if you control your information well, chances are no one will remember that mistake we made in our youth.

When The Patient is a Googler & Is There A Doctor In The Mouse? : Health and the Internet; when is information good information? How do regular people use these resources, in a meaningful way?

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT Why Reality TV is Good For Us & When Reality TV

Gets Too Real: Survivor, The Bachelor, just to name a few; now we have Hoarders, Intervention, is there a line we are crossing (or will cross?) in these style shows?

Makes Learning Fun & From Learning As Torture to Learning As Fun: Computers in the classroom: distraction, or valid learning tool?

In Groups We Shrink: Group think, and personal responsibility; the social impact and backlash of being a “whistle-blower”.

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT Access a News Website and search for any related

topics:

SITES: FOX http://www.foxnews.com

TIME http://www.time.com/time/?xid=huffpo-direct

Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/?CMP=ILC-refresh

Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/blog/

NY Post http://online.wsj.com/home-page

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_and_canada/

CNN http://www.cnn.com/

Reuters http://www.reuters.com/

CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/

Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/

ABC http://abcnews.go.com/

C-Span http://www.c-span.org/

PBS Newshour http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNITHow many different topics did we uncover with a

single question? Identify an intriguing one, and start working. By class end (or sometime between now and then), have a rough draft, based on a topic we have developed….

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT CLASS WORK: Writing, research, end of year

questions & answers.

Next Week: LAST CLASS: Conference, Rough Draft Revision, and any other business…..

….and then we are all doneFor the semester/ year!

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNITI don’t know about you, but I prefer the Storm Trooper kid to this… ! BLEK

EN 102—HERO/ADVOCATE UNIT