2015-09-04 Core: 8 news article & project

Greg Malivuk
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(This is the Core class.)
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REMEMBER: 15-minute breaks today (second half starts at 10:45, modules at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30)
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ALSO: No School Monday, September 7 (Labor Day). (We will have our test on Tuesday.)
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http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ireland_newgrange - example of a mysterious tomb
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Watch the video about Newgrange Tomb. What are some interesting features?
tomb = a building or room for the body of a dead person
grave = a hole in the ground for the body of a dead person
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p. 101 - is the headline a grammatically correct sentence? (should be “A Georgian woman…”)
Do you think this is a true story?
http://www.cablemap.info/ - map of undersea internet cables
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access - real newspaper article about this story
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part 2b
1 with a shovel while digging for metal
2 Armenia lost its internet, damage was detected, a security team responded, she was arrested
3 Georgia provides 90% of Armenia’s internet service, she’s 75, there are 3.2M people in Armenia
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Organization of this news story:
- summary of what happened
- beginning of the events
- background
- end of events
- future prediction
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part 3a - what do these adverbs mean? (match the words in the two boxes)
accidentally = by mistake (opposite: purposefully / deliberately)
unfortunately = by bad luck (opposite: fortunately)
temporarily = for a short time (opposite: permanently)
immediately = at once
apparently = it seems that
adjective+ly = adverb
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part 3b - choose all correct adverbs (it might be both of them)
1 Apparently
2 Fortunately / Incredibly
3 gradually (= slowly, step by step)
4 Coincidentally (= it happened at the same time, but was not connected)
5 deliberately (= purposefully)
6 Hopefully
part 3c - Are any of these sentences part of the story? Where can they be added to the article?
...were also temporarily affected. Internet service was gradually restored across the region.
She faces up to three years in prison. Hopefully, the police will release the woman because of her age.
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What are some features a construction (building, monument, tomb, etc.) could have that would confuse future archaeologists?
- A modern bank building would be confusing in 2000 years, because the things we do in banks today will disappear by then.
- The height of skyscrapers might be confusing. (Did we want to be nearer to god?)
- statue of a man holding a planet
- concrete and steel construction
- subway technology (if they use flying cars in the future)
- a building without doors
- They might think graffiti has a religious purpose.
(You can think about what religious meanings future archaeologists will think about.)
http://cdn4.sci-news.com/images/enlarge/image_1894e-Djehutihotep-painting.jpg - pouring water in the sand to move stones for the pyramids, but archaeologists thought it must have been a meaningless religious ritual
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With your group, design a world wonder that will be confusing to archaeologists in the distant future. (Imagine that there is some collapse or disaster between now and then, so they don’t have convenient Internet information about it.) Think about why it will be confusing and what ideas they will have about your construction. (What do you think they will think about it?)
They will think, “They might have used this for receiving letters.”
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I go to school by car. (= using the car)
I was running by the car. (= next to the car)
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Nuclear waste has to be put somewhere away from people, and some of it can be dangerous for up to 10,000 years. The difficulty is making sure that people in the future know this location is very dangerous.
http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Brill.htm - project to design systems to scare people away
http://www.desertspace.org/wwwroot/warning_sign/index.html - more design projects
https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/10000-year-earworm-to-discourage-settlement-near-nuclear-waste-repositories - songs and sounds to discourage people from living nearby
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Homework: Write a news story (real or fake) with the words and organization from p. 101. (You can follow the instructions in parts 4, 5, 6 on that page. The story should be 150-200 words.)