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Here is the documentary we did today in class instead of this. We’ll do this activity tomorrow. Please, with your chosen groups of no more than five (we need seven groups total), cycle through the learning stations in alphabetical order from where you started and complete the tasks on this powerpoint. Use your own paper. […]
April 20, 2018
If you’re interested in a more recent (2008) look at Genie, ABC news has an excellent – if long – article looking at her progression and regression in language skills and acquisition. The Guardian also has a recent article (2016) where they attempted to track her down to learn of her current condition. They were […]
April 19, 2018
Something that’s often said about Adolf Hitler is “oh, thank goodness he didn’t ever reproduce.” Oops. Turns out he apparently had an affair with a French woman during WWI, who wound up having a child that Hitler never outwardly acknowledged (though the SS did give her bundles of money during the war). Later on, that […]
April 19, 2018
Mr. Needle will be hosting the APWH reviews at 7:30 AM on Monday mornings (starting this coming Monday morning). It’ll be held in the AVID room. For more information, please see his blog post regarding it. DO NOT FORGET TO SIGN UP ON THE SIGNUP LINK. Please be considerate. Please note that you need to […]
April 19, 2018
All right, guys – here’s the essay portion of your test. This assignment is due on April 26th at 8:20 AM, and will be worth 50 points in the test category. Please choose the viewpoint that you agree with more – B.F. Skinner’s theory of language acquisition or Noam Chomsky’s theory that we are all inborn […]
April 18, 2018
All righty guys, you know the drill. One person per word, two points on the unit 10 test. This unit is on Cognition, Language, and Intelligence Sign up here!
April 17, 2018
About a third of the country’s PBS stations did not air the roundtable discussion that we will view in class. The roundtable was protested by many Armenian groups because it gave a platform for those who deny that a genocide took place. The New York Times published an article regarding the cancellation, which you guys […]
April 25, 2018
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