Comments - Chapter 12 - Remains of the Author

Comments - Chapter 11 - Out of the Fire and in to the Compost Bin

Comments - Chapter 10 - Eat Me

Comments - Chapter 9 - Just a Head

Comments - Chapter 8 - How to Know if You are Dead

Comments - Chapter 7 - Holy Cadaver

Comments - Chapter 6 - The Cadaver that Joined the Army

Comments - Chapter 5 - Beyond the Black Box

Comments - Chapter 4  - Dead Man Driving

Comments - Chapter 3 - Life After Death

Comments - Chapter 2, Crimes of Anatomy

Chapter 1 Comments, A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste

REQUIRED POST

 TONE

Guiding questions:

• What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?  What emotional sense do you take from it?
• How does diction (choice of words) point to tone?
• How does imagery (vivid descriptions that appeal to the senses) point to tone?
• How does syntax (sentence construction) point to tone?

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Narrative Style

Guiding questions:

• How does the writer tell the “story”?
• What does the writer reveal?
• What does he/she conceal?
• Is the writing dramatic (almost like a play)?
• How does the writer treat time?

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Purpose of the Text 

Guiding questions to help you make complete comments of value:

• What is the speaker’s reason for writing the text?
• In what ways does the author convey the message of the purpose?
• What is the message?
• How does the speaker try to spark a reaction in the audience? How is the text supposed to make you feel?
• What is it’s intended effect?

Welcome to iPrep Biology Blog!  You will be responsible for reading the amazing book, Stiff, by Mary Roach.

For 2,000 years, cadavers — some willingly, some unwittingly — have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.

Once you read this book, you must do some blog commenting on your own as well as give feedback to your classmates comments.

Assignment Instructions

PART ONE:  For a minimum of 4 chapters (of your choosing) you must create an original comment (post).  I will start a post for each chapter in the book.  You must also comment on a minimum  of 10 posts of your peers who are commenting on Stiff.  Your comments need to be more than, "I agree" or "I liked it too".  Your responses need to be well thought out and provide true feedback.

Use these guiding questions for your posts/discussion and comments - these can help you formulate your posts: 

• Focus on why you found it interesting (or not)?
• What biology concepts were addressed and how will this tie in to our biology course?
• What is your personal interpretation of the text?

PART TWO:  Comment on posts that I have created with the following questions?  You must comment on EACH of the three items below.  You must also respond to at least 5 of your classmates’ answers.

• Purpose: What is the speaker’s reason for writing the text?
• Tone: What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?
• Narrative Style:  How does the writer tell the “story”?