Artificial Intelligence

Algorithms,  AI, robots,  machine learning...

Have you started seeing more about artificial intelligence in the news headlines?

 

What is AI? Can AI replace humans?

Can machines think?

How does AI affect our daily lives?

Should we worry about AI taking over the world?

Why have people begun attacking robots?

What will the world be like in 2050?

Your task is to read and gather as much information as you can on the subject and then write an article of about 300 words. You can choose a specific aspect or write about AI in general.

Are you interested?

 NY Times Sixth-Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You

 

Here is all you need to know: NY Times Editorial Contest

 

Read here: last year's winners 

 

Read here: last year's runners-up

To Kill a Mockingbird

Historical Background

• The Deep South
• American Civil War
• Great Depression
• Jim Crow Laws 
• Civil rights movement

 Assignments (1º D/I)
Historical background: Monday 17th Dec
Chapter 1: Tuesday 18th Dec

Show Us Your Generation.

IN September 2018  the NY Times launched the NY Times  Show US Your Generation photo contest  in which teenagers were asked to

Show us a photograph that depicts some aspect of your life or the life of people your age.

What stereotypes about teenagers do the adults you know seem to hold? How does the media portray people your age — whether you’re called Gen Z, iGen or anything else?

What can you show us from your own life, or the lives of those around you, that might help make that portrait more interesting, nuanced, complete or real?

 You can read and look at  some of the entries (including the winners) at  NY Times Learning Network


Your assignment: Now it is your turn. Choose a photograph (one preferably taken by you), show us and tell us in about 5 minutes why you have chosen that particular picture.
Deadline: Wednesday, 12th Dec.

Never Let Me Go

Quizzes

Quizzes (several)
Full Book quiz
Quiz 1

Reviews

The Guardian
The Independent
NY Times

The Author
Kazuo Ishiguro

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations quizzes


Quiz 1(spark notes)

Quiz 2 (Grade Saver)

THE SNIPER A short story by Liam O'Flaherty

The Sniper is a short story by Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty published in 1923. It is set during the Irish Civil War.

📖   Read The Sniper here  

Questions on the story (print and answer)

MACBETH

When shall we meet again? 
In Thunder, lightning or in rain?


When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won 




...and thus the play begins.

Act I (scenes 1-3)

Reading Assignments

QUIZ
 Friday 24th November
Acts V 
Tuesday 28th  November
Exam