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2015-03-31 Evening: discrimination and vocab building

Mar 31st, 2015
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  1. Greg Malivuk
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  4. Homework: Make a list of things that you think should be segregated by gender or at least have some benefits being separated (possibly including education). Think of some possible problems with that separation.
  5. List other possible reasons to segregate people (such as by race, by religion, by education level, by age).
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  7. transgender: identifying as a gender other than what was assigned at birth
  8. intersex: being biologically something other than unambiguously male or unambiguously female\
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  10. draft dodger: someone who avoids going into the military after being selected by the draft
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  12. affirmative action: purposeful action to help groups of people that are historically disadvantaged or underrepresented (e.g. racial minorities)
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  14. p. 33 complete the chart in pairs
  15. nouns verbs adjectives adverbs
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  17. election elect elective electively
  18. elector elected
  19. electability electable electably
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  21. fosterage foster fostered/ing x
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  23. fragility x fragile x
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  25. exuberance x exuberant exuberantly
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  27. renewal renew renewed x
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  29. endorsement endorse endorsed/ing x
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  31. endowment endow endowed x
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  33. mandate mandate mandated x
  34. mandatory
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  36. correlation correlate correlative correlatively
  37. correlated/ing
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  39. http://books.google.com/ngrams/
  40. (Type words in the box to see how common they are in English books. Separate with a comma to compare different words.)
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  42. http://www.wordandphrase.info/ (click on Analyze Texts to go to http://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp)
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  44. http://www.wordfrequency.info/ - options for downloading lists of the most common words or word forms in English
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  46. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - Check this website out if you want to spend a lot of time looking at this kind of information for English
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  48. Homework: Read the 6 paragraphs from More’s Utopia and write your own rules for a utopia in each of the same areas:
  49. 1 crime and punishment
  50. 2 religion
  51. 3 government / making laws
  52. 4 dangerous or unpleasant jobs
  53. 5 business, economics, and money
  54. 6 foreign policy / war
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