2015-06-12 Core: confusing wonders of the world

Greg Malivuk
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(This is the Core class.)
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Homework: p. 101, parts 1, 2, 3 (all)
part 1 This is a true story.
part 2 a
1 a woman cut a cable and Armenia lost Internet
2 an elderly Georgian woman
3 in Georgia and Armenia
part 2 b
1 she was digging for metal with a shovel
2 she cut off Internet service to Armenia
  damage was detected
  a security team responded
  the woman was arrested
(landslides or heavy rain may have exposed the cable before she cut the cable)
3 Georgia provides 90% of Armenia’s Internet service
  Georgia’s capital city is Tblisi
  Armenia has 3.2 million people
part 2 c
1 - a short summary of the whole story
2 - the first events of the story
3 - background information
4 - the last events of the story / conclusion
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part 3a
accidentally: by mistake
unfortunately: by bad luck
temporarily: for a short time
immediately: at once
apparently: it seems that
part 3b
the adverbs that are NOT possible:
1 Quickly
2 (both are okay)
3 amazingly
4 Rapidly
5 sadly
6 Slowly
part 3c
1 - wouldn’t really fit in the article
2 - doesn’t fit because nothing else talks about anything dangerous happening
3 - ...temporarily affected. Internet service was gradually restored...
4 - doesn’t fit because the rest of the article is just about the Georgia and Armenia region
5 - no, it’s not related to anything in the story
6 - ...years in prison. Hopefully, the police will release...
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twirl, whirl, swirl
tornados are sometimes called “whirlwinds”
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adjective + -ly = adverb = “in an [adjective] way” (this is productive - you can make new adverbs this way)
Sentence adverbs: modify the entire sentence, like “apparently”, “fortunately”, “hopefully”, “clearly”
Adverbs of manner: modify a specific verb, like “quickly”, “slowly”, “immediately”, “gradually”, “clearly”

sentence adverb: Clearly, the woman didn’t know what she was doing. (the situation is clear)
adverb of manner: She speaks clearly. (her speech is clear)
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noun + -ly = adjective = “like a [noun]”, more or less (this is not very productive - you can’t always make new adjectives)
(lovely), friendly, motherly, fatherly, sisterly, brotherly, matronly, elderly, daily/hourly/weekly/etc. (adj. and adv.)
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http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - experiment with it if you want, but it’s a fairly complicated website
Search for *ly.[j*] to get adjectives ending in -ly.
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*She smiled friendlily. (we don’t repeat the -ly suffix)
-> She smiled in a friendly way.
-> Her smile was friendly.
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noun + -y = adjective = “with a lot of [noun]” (this is productive, you can say the school is very “studenty” and people will understand you, even though they never saw that word before)
salty sunny foggy snowy icy spicy sugary watery creamy milky garlicky cloudy smoggy peppery…
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Why has no one discovered the reason for creating existing wonders such as Stonehenge?
(or Newgrange Tomb) http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ireland_newgrange?source=relatedvideo
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BREAK
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With your group, create your own world wonder that will confuse people in 1000 years. You should draw a diagram and decide what objects or artifacts will be in each part.
What are some things future archaeologists might guess about your structure?

(Something similar to the Nazca lines or the objects in part 9 on p. 97.)
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David Barr - “Four Corners Project”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-juK0PTbAiI
http://www.mylovedone.com/IMaGe/Monograph1/PlatonicSolids.html
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Nuclear waste - the material left after uranium is used in a nuclear power plant - it is dangerous for thousands of years

Yucca Mountain is a location in Nevada (US) where nuclear waste is stored.

How can we warn people in 10,000 years that it is an unsafe place to go?
What symbol or structure could you create that shows, “This is a bad place”, even if someone doesn’t know about our language or culture?
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https://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/radwarnsymbstory.htm - origins of the “radiation danger” symbol
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Homework: write a fake news story (like for April Fool’s Day), 150-200 words (p. 101 parts 4, 5, 6)
     (you can look at The Onion for other examples)