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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 OmelasThe 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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