E2: American Winter

Write a 7-10 sentence paragraph for each:

• What does American Winter have to say/show about poverty and how Americans handle it?
• What does American Winter have to say about getting involved in helping others? What are your thoughts on helping others and how did you develop them?

Myth: Fairy Tales vs. Folklore 2

Answer each questions with three to four sentences.

• What do werewolves represent in stories? Explain and support.
• What do vampires represent in stories? Explain and support.
• What do zombies represent in stories? Explain and support.
• What do demons represent in stories? Explain and support.
• Why do we need monsters in stories? Explain and support?
• Why do we need heroes in stories? Explain and support.

Honors 4: Guided Essay

This is either a problem/solution or argument/counterargument essay. At least one of your three sources needs to come from the articles I handed out or the documentary we watched (Food Inc.). Any sources you find need to be printed off and cited correctly.

Please check the Citation Information tag or OWL@Purdue for information or to answer any format questions.

The paper will be two pages (typed, et al.) and include a bibliography as the third page. The final draft will be on top with a rough draft, an outline, and any supplemental materials stapled behind. If you choose to turn it in via google classroom make sure each file name makes sense considering how many people might be uploading the same assignment.

Myth: Archetypes and Hero's Journey

Write me two paragraphs: one focusing on how a single archetype is used in the Pilot; one on how a step in the Hero's Journey is used in the Pilot.

The Hero's Journey

• Leaves Home/Receives Quest
• Meets Company
• Faces Trials
• Separates from Company
• Final Trial: Win, Lose, or Die

Grimm Pilot

• Nick Berkhart (Grimm/police): hero, anti-hero, warrior
• Aunt Marie (Grimm/librarian): mentor, gatekeeper, warrior
• Juliet (Nick's gf/vetrinarian): best friend?, rational love interest?
• Hank (bff/police partner): warrior, best friend?
• Sargent Wu (police): warrior, shadow (everyman)
• Captain Reynard (police): warrior, trickster, villain??
• Monroe (werewolf/clock maker): warrior, thief (reformed), mentor, shadow

The Journey So Far

• Leaves Home/Receives Quest: Aunt Marie's dying, tells Nick to leave Juliet OR girls are being killed/kidnapped and a little girl has just been taken
• Meets Company: all the peeps
• Faces Trials: find the "big bad wolf" and save the little girl, trusting Monroe, finding the mailman, asking Hank for backup

Terms

• Wesen: people who are shapeshifters
• Grimm's: supernatural enforcers/killers
• Volga: to shapeshift

Sample 2-Sentence Summaries and Analytical Paragraphs

Analytical Paragraph (General): Response to an article, short story, chapter/book, play, poem, television show/episode, film, lecture, etc. (7-10 sentences)

• Choose one sentence from the summary as the topic sentence of the paragraph.
• Support from the text (paraphrase or quote w/acknowledgement)––Explain the first piece of support
• Another piece of support from the text (paraphrase, quote w/acknowledgement)––Explain the second piece of support 
• Make a connection to another article, poem, chapter, short story, television show, film, class, etc.––Explain the connection
• Finish with “So what? Now what?” or "Why does it matter? What does it mean? What does it change?"

Summaries

• What was it about?
• What was the message?
• If nonfiction: 
• Is the source/information reliable? How do you know?

Literature Example
Summary
Old Man created everything and everyone on the Great Plains. When the people stopped listening to Old Man's messengers, they lost everything (their land, their families, and their stuff).

Paragraph
According to "Blackfoot Genesis", Old Man created everything and everyone on the Great Plains. We see this when he creates the big horn sheep and the antelope. With each of these creatures he provides for his people and for the animals, showing how much he cares about what he creates. He also takes care of the people he creates when he protects them from the buffalo. He shows the people how to use bows and arrows which allows them protection and food. Old Man doesn't just create things, he protects and cares for what he creates.

Article Example
Summary
"Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots" is about the importance of carefully checking sources and intentions, even in advertising. People too easily get sucked into a clever marketing campaign without finding out the truth behind it and that can, unfortunately, inform their decisions. This article is fairly reliable, because the author makes the information easy to access and fact-check.

Paragraph 1
People too easily get sucked into a clever marketing campaign without finding out the truth behind it and that can, unfortunately, inform their decisions as shown in "Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots." One example from Bailey's article is shown when he writes "every independent scientific body that has ever evaluated the safety of modern biotech crops has deemed them safe for human beings to eat." Bailey is referring to a Chipotle ad campaign where they claim, in the interest of customer health, they will go GMO free in their products. This is disingenuous at best, he goes on to argue that they manipulate the information and the consumer. He also points out that the prices of organic or natural foods are inflated based on nutritional value which fools some customers into believing they get what they pay for. What people need to remember is that Chipotle is taking GMOs out of their products for marketing, not integrity.

Paragraph 2
"Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots" is about the importance of carefully checking sources and intentions, even in advertising. Bailey shows this when he writes, "every independent scientific body that has ever evaluated the safety of modern biotech crops has deemed them safe for human beings." This illustrates how companies keep playing on people's fears instead of encouraging consumers to find out about the safety of GMOs for themselves. He continues by giving examples of Chipotle, individually, trying to take advantage of customer's ignorance through their campaign's implied claim that they are making changes in order to promote the health of their customers. The irony is clear when consumers acknowledge that Chipotle is a chain restaurant that caters to quantity over quality. Checking facts becomes even more important when reading articles like "Government Deception of GMOs" which is full of unsupported suppositions. Ultimately, consumers need to check facts rather than relying on ad campaigns for information on any type of decision making.

E2 : Questions for 9/23

Switching Gears:

• What is the American Dream? Why does it send so many people into debt?
• What is a social "safety net"? Is it necessary in our society? Why?
• If you've never been in the positon of being homeless or worrying about food, how would you deal with it? If you have been in either position, how did you deal with it?
• Does our society need to change to help people not live below the poverty line? How?

English 4: Activism

Activism: people taking action to create a specific change in society

• What is a current problem in our world that deserves notice?
• What is the solution to the problem?
• Does it deserve activism? Why? How?

• What is a problem in our nation that deserves notice?
• What is the solution to the problem?
• Does it deserve activism? Why? How?

• What is a problem locally (Oregon/Pendleton/PHS) that deserves notice?
• What is the solution to the problem?
• Does it deserve activism? Why? How?

• What is a problem that currently is getting a lot of media attention that you don’t think deserves it? Fully explain.

• What is a problem that is not getting much media attention? Why does it deserve to be part of the national conversation? Fully explain.

30 for 30: Hillsborough (2013)

• In the news on April 15, 1989, one of the lead stories was about a riot in a soccer stadium that killed nearly 100 people; originally, the deaths were blamed on rowdy fans. The truth is a little different.
• What is an inquest? How does the process work? How would it have been handled differently in the United States?
• Who are Duckenfield and Burman? What impact did they have on how events played out?
• Why did it take 25 years between the events in Hillsborough and a documentary about it? Best Guess (amend your answer after the movie)
• Why do these deaths matter? Explain.
• Were the deaths in Hillsborough preventable? How?
• Who was ultimately responsible for how wrong things went? Explain.
• What was the purpose of this film? How do you know?
• Should the film maker have used more graphic imagery? Explain.
• Can you think of any other situations where families have had to fight so hard or wait so long for justice/compensation? Explain.
• What impact on sport stadiums and crowd control worldwide are evident based on the events of Hillsborough? Explain.