The voting for Most Inspirational Teacher is over, but these are some the slogans I might have used.
O’Meara: Fat AND Bald
Because I’m Worth Mr O’Meara
Don’t Lean a Little, Learn with Mr O’Meara
If Only Everything In Life was Like Mr O’Meara
Snap! Crackle! O’Meara!
Here is the question we are writing an essay for: Is justice served in Minority Report?
Our content is no.
Our three main points are
1. The guilty are caught and punished.
2. The innocent can suffer.
3. People are punished excessively.
Maps
Around Melbourne with Small Kids
Map of locations in the novel Runner
Word documents
Romeo & Juliet: Balcony scene with notes
If you are in Up and Running and have not completed the final version of your I, Robot essay, then you will need to do this in your own time. Here is the information that you will need.
This week in Language and Technology we are researching and creating a fifteen-minute learning activity for the rest of the class.
1. If you don’t already have one, create a login for the Red Space Rocket Wiki.
2. Claim your topic on this page on the Red Space Wiki.
3. Develop a fifteen minute learning activity about this term that you will deliver to the class next week.
Robots can evolve without further human intervention. Discuss in relation to the film I, Robot.
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People are better off when they have machines to help them. Discuss in relation to I, Robot.
1. Introduction
2. First Body Paragraph
3. Second Body Paragraph
4. Third Body Paragraph
5. Conclusion
Introduction
Quote from the text.
Restate the question.
Define key terms
Answer the question
Three key points
Body Paragraph
Topic sentence (what your point is)
Example from the text
Explain how it proves the topic sentence.
Explain how the topic sentence answers the essay question.
Example paragraph. See if you can pick which sentences are which.
Robots can be really useful and even save lives. In the film I, Robot, Del Spooner is saved from certain death, drowning in a submerged car, by an NS4 robot. In another incident, a robot quickly runs to get a woman her asthma puffer, which she had left at home. These examples demonstrate that people can be saved from discomfort and even death by robots. Robots are not only useful for minor tasks, but perform important tasks and even save lives.
Conclusion
Restate the question.
Restate the three key points
Closing sentence/coda
Here are the questions that you should answer as you watch I, Robot. This will give you most of the basic information that you will need for your essay.
Washington DC (District of Columbia)
2054
A red ball means a crime of passion.
Precime ran for six years.
the first crime we see
Howard Marks (might have killed his wife with scissors).
Sarah Marks – probably victim
Donald Dubin – probable victim
John: his work and family
John Anderton – Chief of Pre-crime
Sean Anderton – John Anderton’s son
Lara Clarke – John Anderton’s ex-wife
Danny Witwer – Department of Justice
Fletcher – sidekick at pre-crime
Lamar Burgess – Director and co-creator of Precrime.
Dr. Iris Hineman – co-creater of Precrime
Precogs: work and family
Agatha – female precog
Dashiell – male precog
Arthur – male precog
Anne Lively – Agatha’s mother and murder victim
Wally – caretaker/precog technician
Leo Crowe – the man the precog saw John Anderton murder.
Justice is served in Minority Report.
Our contention is yes, justice is served.
Our three points are
1. The innocent can be accused, however…
2. The guilty get discovered and punished, and
3. The innocent go free
Right now, we are watching the text again to get facts, figures and quotes.
