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Writing Wednesday - Celebrity Culture
On Loose-Leaf paper, respond to ONE of the following prompts with two 5-7 sentence paragraphs.

Prompt 1: Write a story about someone who is famous for being famous, but who loses his or her fame.

Prompt 2: How do you feel about celebrity worship in our culture? Why do you think some people spend time and energy focusing on the lives of other, more famous people? Use examples to fill out your paragraphs.

Prompt 3: Tell a (true or imagined) story about meeting someone famous. Did he or she live up to your expectations? Was this person all that you had imagined?
“In the 19th century the struggle was between the working class and the ruling class over the means of production. By the end of the 20th century, the paradigm was made obsolete by new classes – the leisure class, the creative class, the consumer class. Now there’s a whole new emerging class bringing another sea change, the celebrity class. Suddenly we have an entire stratus of people who are famous just for being famous. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t the most talented, or the most virtuous, or even the most beautiful, as long as people know who you are. We’ve built a brave new world where every man and woman can be a star.” –Concrete Underground by Moxie Mezcal
Prompt 4: Re-write the above quotation using mostly different words. Use synonyms, and re-phrase the sentences. Then, in a separate paragraph, summarize what the above quotation means.

Classwork Part 2:


Standard:​ CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Carefully read the above media, and examine the images. 
Answer the following questions using Complete Sentences:




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Late Assignments:

Classroom lectures are often presented on EdPuzzle. Late EdPuzzle assignments can be made up during the Extra Help /  Assignment Makeup sessions in room 252 from 2:34-2:49 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. If you cannot attend one of the makeup sessions, see Mr. Flamm for a Missing EdPuzzle Assignment Form​, or download and print your own form, HERE. Fill out this form and return it to Mr. Flamm for evaluation.

You may also easily complete the Podcast Questions of the Week during the above times. Homework is worth 10% of your final grade, so if you do not do any homework, it is equivalent to dropping your final grade down by one entire letter grade (10% deduction).

Assignments are due at 11:59 pm on due date. Unexcused lateness of assignments will be penalized at 10 percent per day late (for example, an assignment that is two days late will have a maximum grade of 80, or B-). After 9 days the assignment is worth zero points. Learners are welcome to submit assignments more than 9 days late as Merit Assignments, but not for class credit.

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