NOTICE: Monday, March 10 is mid-marking period. If you owe me any work or you need to take any tests from the first half of the marking period it must be completed and turned in by Friday, March 7. A zero will go in the gradebook if the work is not turned in by this date.
VOCABULARY QUIZ: Unit 5 quiz will be on Thursday, March 13.
MARCH ASSIGNMENTS: We will be viewing Minority Report during the week of March 3 and discussing the article "DNA as Destiny." During the week of March 10, we will begin writing a PRO/CON Essay using the film, the article, and Oedipus the King. The requirements for this essay will be discussed in class. The due dates for certain sections of the paper will be announced in class. All essays will be MLA format and include a Works Cited page. Final essays must be turned in to turnitin.com by Wednesday, March 19 by 11:59 PM. A late paper will include a letter grade penalty for each day it is late. If the MLA formatting is lost when uploading the paper to turnitin.com, you must bring the printed copy to class on Thursday, March 20.
Works Cited Information for PRO/CON Paper:
DVD/Film - The Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg for DreamWorks in Universal City, California (original release date is 2002 and it came out on DVD in 2003).
Magazine - The magazine article "DNA as Destiny" was written by David Ewing Duncan. It first appeared in Wired magazine November of 2002.
Anthology - Sophocles is the author of Oedipus the King (keep the original date of print blank). This work appears on pages 433-471 in the following Anthology: Literature World Masterpieces which was published in 1995 in Englewood Cliffs by Prentice Hall Publishing Company.
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