I. Discover the LaGuardia Community College website for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks!
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/henriettalacks/default.htm
Find the answers to the following questions. Write out the answers in complete sentences and post them on your blog. For example, The Tuskegee Institute opened the first "Hela factory" in _____________. The first company that would begin selling Hela for profit was called ___________________.
Get into your groups and write four sentences that describe what you learned in chapters 4 through 7 about:
a. the science in the book
b. the society at that time
c. the author's process of writing this book
This time, include page numbers for each topic you have learned. Post your sentences on each your "captain's" blog:
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/henriettalacks/default.htm
Find the answers to the following questions. Write out the answers in complete sentences and post them on your blog. For example, The Tuskegee Institute opened the first "Hela factory" in _____________. The first company that would begin selling Hela for profit was called ___________________.
- What year did The Tuskegee Institute open the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit? What was the name of the company that would begin selling Hela for profit?
- What year was Henrietta Lacks born?
- What year did George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix? Why was it given the name HeLa?
- What year did scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine?
- What is the name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer? In what year was it founded?
- What year did HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned?
II. Please fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Promoting_writing_self-efficacy
III. Read the wiki: https://sites.google.com/site/jerskeyeslfall2011/
After reading each group's post, what do you think your group could have added, removed, or substituted? Think about (a) "language" (is there a better way you could write it in English?) and (b) content (what did some groups write about that your group did not write?).
Write a five to seven sentence paragraph describing your response and post it on your blog.
IV. Get into your groups:
Marina | Shourave | Wu | Tony | Connie | Aye |
Johanna | Ho Chun | Liting | Yajaira | Larisa | Xiu |
Meng | Roger | Hei Lee | William | Leslie | Golam |
Anny | Andrea | Gbenga | Peng Fei | Hua | Yuan |
Get into your groups and write four sentences that describe what you learned in chapters 4 through 7 about:
a. the science in the book
b. the society at that time
c. the author's process of writing this book
This time, include page numbers for each topic you have learned. Post your sentences on each your "captain's" blog:
Johanna | Shourave | Wu | Tony | Connie | Aye |
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