Monday, November 17, 2014

Tuesday November 18, 2014

Honors 9- Today you will need to go to each of these links and read the stories from each page.  Answer the questions that go with each article.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/12/opinion/la-oe-rollin-kevorkian-20110612

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/opinion/suicide-by-choice-not-so-fast.html?_r=0

For question #3 for the article “Assisted suicide: Jack Kevorkian Was Just a Sideshow"
here is the italicized section the questions refers to:


Almost no one in the pro assisted suicide movement — and there are several organizations now trying to make physician-assisted death available to more Americans — believe anyone should be killing anyone.
It's about the (qualified) patient ending his own life when he chooses with (qualified) help.


Directions: Today you will to go to my class page at http://misterwellsclass.blogspot.com/ and read the two articles that have web page links under today’s class. After you have read the articles, you will need to answer the following questions for each article on a separate sheet of paper. These two articles contain one strong pro-assisted suicide claim, and one con or against assisted suicide claim. Hopefully, this activity will give you an idea of the types of articles that you will need to select for your own analysis project. If you do not finish this in class today, please complete it for homework.

Questions for the article:
“Suicide By Choice: Not So Fast” From the NY Times

1.      Would the author have been a good candidate for assisted suicide? Why?
2.      What do doctors think of the author?
3.      How could a “loved one’s look of exhaustion” or “nobody wants you at the party” persuade one to pick assisted suicide?
4.      Is the author for or against assisted suicide?  Identify the author’s claim. 
5.       What are the authors best examples of evidence supporting their claim?

Questions for the article:
“Assisted suicide: Jack Kevorkian was just a sideshow” From the LA Times

1. What does the author want to do?  What is his problem?
2. What are some potential problems with assisting in someone’s death? 
3. Reread the italicized words.
Almost no one in the pro assisted suicide movement — and there are several organizations now trying to make physician-assisted death available to more Americans — believe anyone should be killing anyone.
It's about the (qualified) patient ending his own life when he chooses with (qualified) help.  What does the author think the difference is between “killing someone” and assisted suicide?
4.      How did the mother react to being given the option of “suicide?”
5.      What is the author’s claim? Rewrite it here:
6.      What are the author’s best examples of supporting evidence?


v  Lastly, after reading these two articles, look at the types of evidence, the authors, and the publications. Regardless of your stance on assisted suicide, decide which article supported their claim the best.



English 10- Today we continued to work on the quarter 2 reading assessment analyzing The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.






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