Advanced Listening & Note-Taking Activity

Jane Goodall:  What separates us from the chimpanzees?
Jane Goodall is perhaps the world's most famous primatologist. Watch her as she describes the differences between humans and chimpanzees. Take careful notes!

QUIZ REVIEW: SSP 107 Study Guide

Click here to check out the SSP 107 Study Guide

Sound Ideas Listening: In the U.S., consumers are the food wasters

Click here for a link to the full story with transcript.

SSP 107 Listening: These Days, Family Trees Look More Like A Forest :

These Days, Family Trees Look More Like A Forest : NPR

Visit the link below, listen and read along.

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137627840/these-days-family-trees-look-more-like-a-forest

The traditional family tree has grown much more complicated in recent years. With increases in unmarried and same-sex couples, surrogates, and sperm donors, many families now organize two family trees — genetic and emotional. And some schools now skip the traditional classroom project altogether.

GILMAN: QUIZ 1 STUDY GUIDE

Download Brian's SSP 107 Study Guide here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0By3oRznojLJXT1dDb2FtLU9STUE You may need OpenOffice Writer to open it!

Corporate "Greenwashing"

Write and answer three good questions about this video:

Short Listening: A Controversial Nike Ad

1.  What is the title of the advertisement?

2.  Who is in the ad?  What is he doing?

3.  What is the message of the ad?

4.  Was the boy's experience negative or positive?  How do you know?

5.  What are "haters?"

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Vocabulary / Phrases from this Listening
-------------
campaign
inspired / inspirational / motivational
support
message
audience
experience
emotional
embarrassment
overweight
critical / critics / criticize
exploitation
discriminatory
"sculpted bodies"
"brilliant advertising"
"all of the above"
to "sweep [something] under the rug"
to lose weight

The Diane Rehm Show's Friday News Roundup

Students, listen to the Friday News Round Up on the Diane Rehm show and write a reaction paper (about one page written) to one specific story that is discussed during the one-hour program.  Listen to the entire program!  Take notes!  See how much you can understand!

Yale Lecture 3: Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles

Watch the video of Yale Professor Wrightson below and take notes to build up your note-taking skills! This video is about households and how they were structured in Early Modern England.

Watch it on FreeVideoLectures.Com

Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures

Listening and Note-Taking -- The Unconquered: Brazil's People of the Arrow

The Unconquered: Brazil's People of the Arrow from National Geographic Live and National Geographic Live on FORA.tv

Ken Burn's "Prohibition" (A documentary)

Award-winning documentary film-maker Ken Burns' is a legend in America. He tells stories from the rich landscape of American history in an interesting and honest way--he uses old videos, photos, and interviews with historians and storytellers to make the past come alive. In this film, he analyzes and explains a confusing time in American history called Prohibition, when alcohol was temporarily made illegal across the United States for more than a dozen years! Click on the link below to check out individual scenes from Prohibition. If you watch all of the clips in order, you will have watched most of this powerful documentary.

Voyagers Are Going the Distance!

Click here for a dictionary definition for the word voyager.


Answer the following questions about the video:

1.  What is the heliosphere?  (104+)

2.  What is interstellar space?  (106+)

3.  How old is the Voyager's mission? (103+)

4.  What are the Voyagers?  (102+)

5.  What does the latest data from the Voyagers show? (108+)

6.  How do NASA scientists know that a change is coming in Voyager's journey? (Masters+)

7.  What happens when the spacecraft leaves the heliosphere? (Masters+)

Thesis Writing Practice

Masters Writers:  Practice Your Organizational and Pre-Writing Skills by writing thesis statements and short outlines to the following questions.

1.  Is the death penalty effective?

2.  Do curfews keep teens out of trouble?

3.  Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy?

4.  Should cigarette smoking be banned?

5.  When should parents let teens make their own decisions?

Advanced SSP - Additional Reading /

109 SSP Topics: Business Versus Ecology

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/11/01/141903604/toward-an-ethic-of-sustainability?print=1

http://www.ted.com/talks/pavan_sukhdev_what_s_the_price_of_nature.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/van_jones_the_economic_injustice_of_plastic.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_sings_nothing_but_flowers.html

108: Gambling

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152670772/australias-poker-machines-are-they-too-popular

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128155835

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125736598

Language Studies - Master's Level Links

Dear Master's Students,

Here is the link to the website and video about General Sherman's march, as I promised earlier today:
http://www.history.com/topics/shermans-march

Also, please remember to choose a speech to watch for tomorrow so we can move forward with your speaking projects.  Here's the website where you can find approved, political speeches:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Good luck!

Second Quiz Study Guide!

Dear Students,

Here is a link to Can Weng's winning quiz.  It's a PDF file.  If you have any trouble loading it, please let me know.  All of the vocabulary that appears on his file will be fair game for tomorrow's quiz.  Good luck studying!  Also, don't forget about those speaking evaluations!  And today is American Mother's Day!  Call your mom if you can--I'm sure she would appreciate it!

Disaster Preparedness (105&106)

Click on the link below to answer the questions on a sheet of paper:
After the Quake, Japanese Shop for Survival (NPR)

1.  What is a retailer?
2.  What are the shops selling?  Why?
3.  What are "goods?"
4.  What did the researchers at Tokyo University say in this story?
5.  Name three products for sale that are mentioned in this story.

LS / Masters Quiz Vocabulary

Dear LS Students: Here are the words you should study for the quiz on May 4th. You will be expected to explain these concepts using complete sentences.  Good luck!

• receptivity
• pheromones
• estrus 
• pride
• synchronize 
• hypothesis
• copulate
• coalition
• ovulate
• nomadic
• scavengers
• euphemism

Source: Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows

Step A:  Watch the TED video at the following link: http://bit.ly/vTWLcm

Step B:  Take Notes!!!

Step C:  After watching the video, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

*1. Where and when did Joshua Klein get the idea for his invention?

**2. Use context to answer: What is a responsive breeder?

**3. "Build something that's ___________ _______________."

**4. Re-write #3 using different vocabulary.

*5. Why are crows thriving everywhere?

*6. What do Caledonian crows use in the wild? Why do they use them?

**7. Paraphrase (briefly) the story of the crows at University of Washington.

**8. Why did the man build the vending machine?

*9. What three ways did the man give in which crows could aid human society?

***10. Joshua Klein says that the crows display what researchers call "cultural adapation." How would you explain this idea to a friend? Can you think of any other species that exhibit cultural adaptation? If so, explain (briefly) your example.