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"Life's always been a business of working hard and fighting the cold... The earth's always been a lonely place, millions of miles from the next planet. And no matter how long the human race might have lived, the end would have come some night. Those things don't matter. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some thick fur of the petals of flowers--you've never seen those, but you know our ice-flowers--or like the texture of flames, never twice the same. It makes everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first." -- Pa in Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air"

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GENERAL STUFF

  • Show and Tone Words
  • End of the World Course Description
  • Class Participation Rubric

    Student Final Projects

  • The Model 7, It's Only the Beginning
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
  • Vice Fund
  • Student Animated Trailer to the Novel Good Final Project Model!
  • "Mango" and "Footprint" Film by Jed B
  • Andrew A's "Steven's Solar Sphere" Short Story Movie Trailer
  • A Student's Video Essay Another idea for a final project! It takes a position and articulates it!
  • Dan Z's "The Land That Needs a Hero" Short Story's Trailer
  • Shannon R's "Reuben" Short Story Trailer
  • Bari C, Sydney L, and Sammy S's "The Heat Death of the Time Traveler" Movie
  • Bailey G, Carolyn B, and Hannah A's "The Return of Snowman" Movie
  • Emma K's "A Letter to Anyone"
  • "The Heat Death of the Universe" Movie Trailer by Kaitlin M, Celia T, and Dana N
  • Trailer to Anti-Polluter Film by Adam S. and Mitchell L
  • Three Survivors from Oryx and Crake Trailer by Miranda T, Olivia G, Imani I, Julia D, and Melissa S.
  • A Good House Wife's Guide (and Consequences) by Jess C.
  • The Chronicles of Bic Teaser by Josh F. and Danny S.
  • The Last Republican by Jack S, Danny C, and Tommy K.
  • The Heat Death of the Universe film by Alice D and Sarah S.
  • Three Possible Endings to Oryx and Crake Matt L, Dylan S, Adam N, & Elijah F
  • Matt G and Danie D.'s Heat Death Remake
  • The Chip by Rebecca C and Maddie C
  • Noa S's "The Heat Death of the Universe"

    Media Clips

  • Adam McClean Discussion of "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
  • "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
  • 20/20 End of Days (AKA Fear Mongering Journalism!)
  • The New Masters
  • Discovery Channel's Ancient Evidence: Revelations -- The End of the World?
  • Big Brother Pizza Place
  • Epic 2015 (A Fictional History of Media)
  • Man's Relationship with the Natural World Animation (Steve Cuts)

    SHORT STORY UNIT

    Assignments

  • Educational Poster Group Assignment
  • Peer Evaluation Forms: Short Story Poster Assignment

    Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall"

  • Isaac Asimov
  • "Nightfall" Group Work

    Alfred Bester's "Adam and No Eve"

  • Protons and Champagne Mix as New Particle COllider is Revved Up (NY TImes)
  • Accelerator Anxiety (editorial, Boston Globe)
  • "A Final Smash for America's Giant Particle" Collider
  • Huge Particle Collider Struggles
  • Hadron Collider Documentary
  • CERN Discovers A New Particle, Likely The Higgs Boson

    Arthur Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" & "The Star"

  • "The Nine Billion Names of God [online text]
  • "The Star" [online text]
  • A reading of "The Star"
  • Sir Arthur's Words
  • "The Sentinel"
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Group Work for Arthur Clarke's "The Star"
  • Understanding 2001: Space Odyssey
  • Group Work: Analyzing the Technology Short Stories

    Ursula Le Guin's "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas"

  • Reaction to "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas"

    Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"

  • Leonard Nimoy Reads Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"

    Fredric Brown's "Puppet Show"

  • Stories by Fredric Brown

    TP Caravan's "Random Sample"

    Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

  • "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" read aloud by Harlan Ellison
  • Open the pod bay door, HAL
  • "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" Class Work

    Singularity

  • "Singularity 2045:The Year Man Becomes Immoortal" by Lev Grossman (Time, Feb 2011)
  • Writing Assigment 2045
  • "I've Got a Secret" with Guest Raymond Kurzweil
  • IMB's Watson on Jeopardy! (2011)
  • Watson After Jeopardy
  • Her Movie Trailer
  • Movie Trailer for Chappie (2015)
  • Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL
  • Corning (advertisement): A Day in 2020
  • Futurscape: Computer Chips in Your Brain
  • Are Robots Hurting Job Growth?
  • Humans Needs Not Apply
  • Last Days on Earth Technology Clip @ 16:45 mark
  • "The 'Worm' That Could Bring Down The Internet"
  • Physics of the Future (NPR)
  • AI vs AI
  • Smart Watches (NPR)
  • Black Mirror's "White Christmas" episode
  • Raymond Kurzweil's "The Coming Singularity"
  • Michio Kaku on The Singularity
  • TED TALK: Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
  • TED TALK: Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • "The King of Beasts"
  • "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World"
  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Overpopulation?
  • Sliced Crosswise Only on Tuesday World

    Gaye Jee's "A Civilising Influence

  • "A Civilising Influence"

    Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    Franz Leiber's "A Pail of Air"

  • A Pail of Air" and "Nine Billion Names of God" Classwork
  • Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Survive Without Breathing
  • Did a Star Knock Earth Out of Orbit?

    Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

  • "The Masque of the Red Death" Quarantine Lesson
  • "The Masque of the Red Death" "The Masque of the Red Death" Activity

    James Thurber's "The Last Flower"

  • James Thurber's "The Last Flower" (a parable in pictures)
  • Metronome Sync
  • Adam McClean Discussion of "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

    HG Wells' "The Star"

  • Comparing Asimov, Clarke, and Wells

    Short Story Project

  • Short Story Guidelines
  • Creating Characters Worksheet
  • Plot Graph
  • Peer Editing for the Short Story
  • Rubric for Short Story Final Project
  • Short Story Rubric 2
  • Self-Assessment for the Final Project
  • Final Project Peer Critique the Short Story Rationale and Format Handout
  • Grammar Girl's How to Write Dialogue
  • Basic Dialogue Format
  • Punctuating Dialogue Correctly
  • How to Write Dialogue

    LIMITED RESOURCES / OVERPOPULATION UNIT

  • 7 Billion People
  • Earth's Most Typical Person
  • Overpopulation Reason Environmental Desctruction
  • Science of Overpopulation
  • David Olsson's "Id" (class of 2012; written as a junior)
  • Group: Share Overpopulation Solutions
  • Note Taking Prompt for Soylent Green
  • Think Geek Soylent Crackers
  • What's in that chicken nugget?
  • Delicatessen Note Taking Prompt
  • Delicatessen Worksheet
  • Delicatessen Screenplay
  • "Divided by Infinity" by Robert Charles Wilson
  • Cricket Farms

    TIME AND ENTROPY UNIT

    "Heat Death of the Universe"

  • TS Eliot's "The Hollow Men" (1925)
  • Nobel Prize Winners
  • Social Network Anxiety
  • Pamela Zoline's "Heat Death of the Universe"
  • Annotate Zoline Story Project (200 points)
  • How to Cite for the Zoline Project
  • Rubric for Zoline Annotations Project
  • Heat Death Project Format Sample
  • Zoline Project Student Sample
  • Outline
  • Entropy Essay
  • Thirteen Goddesses
  • Kali Wikipedia
  • Story of Kali
  • Kali Goddess of Chaos
  • Kali Goddess of Chaos Image
  • Explain Like I'm Five: Existentialism and Neitzsche
  • History of Blue

    The Time Machine

  • Time Machine Online Text
  • Time Machine Vocabulary
  • Homer Simpson's Time Travel
  • The Victorian Web
  • Victorian London
  • Victorian Links
  • Characterization in Chapters 1 & 2
  • Illustrating Characters and Setting
  • Illustrating Characterization
  • What Does the TT Value or Disdain?
  • Class Assignment: Time Machine Chapters 1-8
  • Time Machine Found Poem Assignment
  • Time Machine 1960 Film Assignment
  • Time Machine Journal Entry: Movie
  • How I Got Out Of Writing a Paper on The Time Machine
  • Time Machine Essay Options
  • Outline
  • Is Time Travel Possible (Michio Kaku
  • National Geographic DOcumentary on Time Travel
  • A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3-aiIlJfxU">History Channel Time Travel Documentary
  • Is Time Travel Possible? (D NEws)
  • Is Time Travel Possible (Ted Ed)
  • Is Time Travel Possible?
  • Real Time Traveler" Makes News
  • Ten Mind Bending Theories About Time Travel
  • Big Bang Theory
  • 1960 Morlocks
  • 2002 Time Machine
  • Oliver Curry's HG Wells' Vision Rebuked

    NATURAL DISASTERS

    Floods

  • Flood Myth Project
  • Flood Stories From Around the World
  • Flood Myth Project
  • Sample Flood Chart
  • Children's Flood Myths Book Rubric: Hard Copy
  • Children's Flood Myths Book Rubric: PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint Flood Myths Rubric

    EVOLUTION

    Planet of the Apes

  • Planet of the Apes Reading Schedule

    EARTH ABIDES

    Earth Abides

  • Earth Abides Reading Schedule
  • Earth Abides Vocabulary List
  • Earth Abides Group Work Chapters 1-4
  • Ishi the Last Yahi Video Questions
  • Background on Ishi
  • Ishi the Last Yahi
  • Italicized Passage Analysis
  • Earth Abides Jigsaw Reading Project
  • Group Prep Assignment
  • Earth Abides Lesson Basics
  • Earth Abides Presentation Rubric
  • Ecclesiastes "Compilation" Handout
  • Earth Abides Themes
  • Earth Abides Essay Choices

    Genetic Engineering

  • It's Time to Question Bioethics Ted Talk
  • Bio-ethics Scenarios

    Oryx and Crake

    Ms. G Handouts
  • Oryx and Crake Vocabulary List
  • Tips for Reading Oryx and Crake
  • Illustrating Chracterization
  • Oryx and Crake In-Class Essay Options
  • Theme Groupwork
  • Crake's Plan: What if...?
  • Group Work: Setting, Crake, & Jimmy
  • Oryx and Crake Character Philosphy Collage

    Relevant Links

    3-33

  • Quarantine Lesson: Oryx and Crake 3-33 Pre-Recorded Lesson
  • Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
  • Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab
  • Artificial Organs
  • "Artificial liver 'could be grown'"
  • Big Ide Organ Regeneration
  • Growing Organs in the Lab
  • Artificial Human Ear Growing in Mice

    37-68

  • Oryx and Crake 37-68 (Nooners-Hammer) Pre-Recorded Quarantine Lesson[1] and Oops Quarantine Lesson 37-68 [2]
  • Alex the Parrot
  • Skin Guns "Phizer's "Nooskins"
  • Hybrids, Chimeras, and Haldane's Rule
  • Animal-Human Hybrids Spark ControversaryHuman-animal hybrids: Can we justify the experiments?

    69-92

  • Oryx and Crake 69-92 [chapters Crake-HottTotts ] Quarantine Lesson
  • This is Your Brain on Violent Media
  • Glenn Gould
  • Violent Video Games Disrupt Emotion and Cognition in Young Men
  • "Scream Bloody Murder" CNN [genocide piece]
  • Endangered Species

    95-126

  • Oryx and Crake Quarantine Lesson 95-126 [chapters Toast-Birdcall ]
  • Video Glowing Animals
  • Genetic Engineering to Wipe Out Mosquitoes
  • Glow in the Dark Cats, Jellyfish, and Monkeys May Prevent AIDS and More Glow in the Dark Cats
  • Slavery and Human Trafficking
  • Anti-Trafficking Program
  • Child Trafficking and Woman in Poverty
  • Truth About Human Trafficking

    127-162

  • Oyrx and Crake 127-162 Quarantine Lesson
  • Hundred Arrested in Massive Child Pornography Ring
  • Urine Bio Fences
  • Why Do Cats Purr?
  • Purring as Healing
  • Caecotrophs
  • Rabiit's Digestion

    163-191

  • Quarantine Lesson: Oryx and Crake 163-191 [chapters Blue-Applied Rhetoric]
  • Martha Graham Inspired Theater
  • Farmworkers Left Behind: The Human Cost of Coffee Production
  • Arvalis Frogs Turn Blue While Mating
  • Research Explores Baboon Mating
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Watson and Crick
  • Watson and Crick Discuss How They Discovered DNA
  • Watson on How They Discovered DNA
  • EARTH IS ABIDING during Coronavirus! MOTORCYCLE-RIDING MONKEYTRIES KIDNAPPING SMALL CHILD ...In Indonesian Alley (pretty sure this is staged ha ha), More than 100 sheep stroll down empty Turkish road during lockdown , Herd of deer takes over coronavirus-deserted streets in once-busy Pa. town

    192-218

  • Quarantine Lesson Oryx and Crake 192-208 [chapters Asperger's U-Extinctathon]
  • Scientists breed goats that produce spider silk [Spoat/Gider]
  • End of drought? Device harvests water from air
  • These 3 New Devices Can Suck Water From The Air To Solve Our Droughts
  • The Environment’s New Clothes: Biodegradable Textiles Grown from Live Organisms
  • Algae Apparel
  • Coming Soon, Test Tube Burger
  • Lab Grown Meat
  • Lab Grown Meat: Would You Eat It?
  • Would You Eat FrankenMeat?
  • Would Lab Grown Meat Be Better for Us and the Planet?
  • The Dark Side of Big Pharma
  • How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits
  • Top 10 Bio Tech Companies in the USA
  • Why Do People Talk/Scream in Their Sleep

    222-251

  • Oryx and Crake 221-251 [chapters Hike-AnooYoo ] Quarantine Lesson
  • "Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream" by Samuel Taylor Colerdige
  • PDF Kubla Khan
  • Article about Kubla Khan
  • Analysis of "Kubla Khan"
  • Religious Views on Cloning: NO Consensus [shows religions worldwide]
  • Cloning Myths Clarified
  • Synthetic Human Genome

    252-280

  • Quarantine Lesson Oryx and Crake 252-280 (Garage, Gripless, Pigoons, Radio, Rampart)
  • Newtown Parents Seek a Clearer Window Into Violent Behavior

    282-317

  • Quarantine Lesson Oryx and Crake 283-317 (Pleebcrawl, BlyssPluss, MaddAddam, Paradice, Crake in Love)
  • How Ebola Spreads
  • Tracking Ebola in Congo Jungle
  • Cloning Timeline
  • Religious Views on Cloning: NO Consensus [shows relions worldwide]
  • Cloning Myths Clarified
  • Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution"
  • Choosing the Sex of Your Baby
  • Bird FluResearch Rattles Bioterrorism Field

    318-347

  • Quarantine Lesson Oryx and Crake Lesson 318-347 (Takeout, Airlock, Bubble, Scribble)
  • Physics of the Future (NPR)
  • Bird FluResearch Rattles Bioterrorism Field
  • Ebola Outbreak 11/12
  • Kubla Khan
  • Nightline: Ebola Outbreak (8 mins)
  • Virus Cures Science Guy

    348-374

  • Quarantine Lesson Oryx and Crake 348-374 (Remnant, Idol, Sermon, Footprint)
  • About the Author
  • Do you Believe in Crake?
  • Interview with Atwood: God's Gardener's Re: Year of the Flood
  • Student Animated Trailer to the Novel Good Final Project Model!
  • A Student's Video Essay Another idea for a final project! It takes a position and articulates it!
  • Coleridge's "Xanadu"
  • Margaret Atwood Gives You Tips on How to Write
  • Get to Know Margaret Atwood
  • Printing a Human Kidney
  • Clinton Warns of Bioweapon Threat from Gene Tech
  • Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • Zombie Honey Bees
  • Painting Roofs White...
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • "Life After Man"

    MAYAN 2012

  • Mayan End of the World? Fear Not
  • NASA on Mayan 12/21/12

    FILM

    2001:A Space Odyssey

  • Symbols in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 2001 and Beyond

    Delicatessen

  • Delicatessen Worksheet

    Food Inc.

  • McDonald's Animal Cruelty
  • Target McDonald's Egg Supplier

    Happy

  • Happy

    Twelve Monkeys

  • 12 Monkeys Journal/Study Guide
  • Twelve Monkeys Screen Play
  • Hendra and Nipah: Antibody Treatment for 2 Deadly Viruses Shows Promise in Tests and an Emergency
  • Twleve Monkeys "Fact Sheet"
  • Twelve Monkeys Characters
  • Twelve Monkeys Theme Worksheet
  • Twelve Monkeys Post-Movie Discussion Worksheet

    The Matrix

  • Definition of Matrix
  • Significance of Names in The Matrix
  • Matrix Script
  • Philosophy in The Matrix
  • More Philosophy of the Matrix
  • Trapped in the Matrix
  • Messiah in the Matrix
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