English writing
Essay 2 Log: Type or write on this Log and email it to me by Friday, March 13. (OPTIONAL: if you compete this log in your notebook - and it is LEGGIBLE - you can take a picture of it to email me.)
Remember that LOGS and OUTLINES account for 10% of your FINAL GRADE.
Part 1: Read and annotate (underline, highlight, etc.) “Colleges Are Turning Students’ Phones into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands” by Drew Harwell.
· Make two LISTS of the most important PROS and CONS of this surveillance mentioned by the ARTICLE (They Say)?
· Freewrite your RESPONSE to these PROS and CONS (I Say).
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PROS: IDEA + QUOTATION that illustrates this idea |
CONS: IDEA + QUOTATION that illustrates this idea |
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MY RESPONSE TO THE PROS AND CONS: Answer this question: Do you think, on balance, that tracking college students is a good or bad thing? Of course, you can say that it is BOTH GOOD AND BAD, but in that case, how can colleges reduce the negative impacts and increase the helpful aspects?
Part 2: Read and annotate (underline, highlight, etc.) “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets.” Fill in the chart below. You are looking for IDEAS and EVIDENCE from this article that 1) sums up SINGER’S MAIN POINTS and 2) you can CONNECT to the question of college surveillance of students.
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QUOTATIONS form “Visible Man” |
WHAT THE QUOTATION MEANS: In other words….. |
HOW THIS IDEA COULD RELATE TO “Colleges Are Turning Students…” |
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