Extra credit: you can improve up to 5% (500 points)
of you final grade with extra credit.
THIS PAGE WILL CHANGE OFTEN!
This is due any time you want before the last week
of the semester.
→GO to an ICaP mini conference (Thursdays at 3:30) to
learn more about yourself, relationships, stress, drinking, and many
more. Go to this page to see all the details: http://www.purdue.edu/CAPS/330thursdays.html
and earn 10 pts per hour. Ask for a "certificate" that you
will give me as a proof of attendance.
→HELP train international TAs. Give one
hour (or more) of your time to observe international TAs while they
teach and give them a quick evaluation (on special forms that will
be given to you, nothing big). No report to your teacher required
for this one, but you will receive a proof of attendance that you
need to give me if you want 20 pts per hour. Ask your teacher if you
are interested.
→READ one or more of the following texts (in English!
and that you have NOT read before!) and type a one page critical and
thoughtful report (per book) about what you've learned, liked, and
disliked, where I can see that you have REALLY read that book (remember,
100 pts = 1% of your total grade!). (If you know about a good link
to these books and authors, please send me the information, thank
you.) I reserve the right to ask you questions about the books you
said you read if I am not convinced that you did read it:
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Gandhi, an Autobiography (250 pts)
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- The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven (two books) -- Barbara
Kingsolver (130 pts)
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The Heart That Bleeds--Latin America Now -- Alma
Guillermoprieto (120 pts)
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To Destroy You Is No Loss -- JoAn Dewey Criddle
(100 pts)
- What
Should I Do With My Life? -- Po Bronson (90 pts)
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- The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara
Kingsolver (90 pts)
- The
Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorn (80 pts)
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Mean Spirit -- Linda Hogan (80 pts)
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- House of the Spirits -- Isabel Allende (80 pts)
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Where I'm Calling From -- Raymond Carver (80 pts)
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Dee Brown (80 pts)
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Alive -- Piers Paul Read (70 pts)
- The Beloved Country -- Alan Paton (70 pts)
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Blow-up and Other Stories -- Julio Cortazar (70
pts)
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1984 -- George Orwell (70 pts)
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For Those I Loved -- Martin Gray (70 pts)
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The Chosen -- Chaim Potok (70 pts)
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The Hiding Place -- Corrie Ten Boom (60 pts)
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Blood Brothers -- Elias Chacour (60 pts)
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- My Name is Asher Lev -- Chaim Potok (60 pts)
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Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe (60 pts)
- The Diary of a Young Girl -- Anne Frank (50 pts)
- The Stranger -- Albert Camus (50 pts)
- The Story of My Life -- Helen
Keller (50 pts)
- Hiroshima -- John Hersey (50 pts)
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My Left Foot -- Shane Connaughton (50 pts)
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The Awakening -- Kate Chopin (50 pts)
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name -- Margaret Craven
(50 pts)
- Animal Farm -- George
Orwell (40 pts)
- The Giver -- Lois Lowry -- (40 pts)
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Foreigner -- Nahid Rachlin (40 pts)
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Other books that interest you, if you bring them
and let me read them first!
→LISTEN for an hour to one of the following
NPR shows (online or on the radio) and type a reflective and critical
report about what you've learned and what you think about it (10 pts.
first page, 10 pts per extra page):
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NPR
allows you to listen to the news and find other sources of interesting
information. GREAT radio station!
- Marketplace.org is a place
which explores the news, the world, education, the economy, the military,
health, the arts, technology, etc.
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World
Radio Network from NPR offers the best English language reports.
Listen to English-speaking radio stations (and other languages!)
from across the globe.
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Living
On Earth explores our environment, what we're doing to it, and
what it's doing to us and examines how the environment affects medicine,
politics, technology, economics, transportation, agriculture, and
more.
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Justice
Talking is an in-depth look at the cases that come before the
US's courts and challenge our conscience.
→TALK for one hour with someone from another
country about current political events and write a one page summary
of what you've learned, what your opinion is/was, and what the other
person said that was new to you, showing reflection and understanding
of new concepts. (10 pts first page, 10 pts per extra page)
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The news (in English or with captions) on international
television (from internet or cable) for an hour, and type a one
page report of what you've learned, understood, not understood,
what is different from what you thought you knew, etc.(10 pts first
page, 10 pts extra pages).
- Movies from the World Cinema, saturday evening at 7:00 PM in Stanley
Coulter room 239. It is free! Type a thoughtful and critical report
about what you've learned, what you liked, how you feel about this
movie, etc. (10 pts first page, 10 pts extra pages) .
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The following movies (that you have NOT seen already!),
and type a thoughtful and critical report about what you've learned,
what you liked, how you feel about this movie, etc. (10 pts first
page, 10 pts extra pages):
Good Bye Lenin
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about the Berlin Wall, family, love, changes--fun, interesting,
excellent!
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Lost in Translation
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about culture shock in Japan, loneliness, and frienship--funny,
sad, gives an interesting picture of modern Tokyo
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Hotel Rwanda |
incredible true story about courage, war, racism,
and survival--violent, sad, amazing! |
The Motorcycle Diaries |
movie in Spanish about Ernesto "Che" Guevara's
first trip around Latin America--great, beautiful, very interesting,
funny, sad |
Gandhi
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true story, about Gandhi's fight in India--very violent,
long, beautiful, very well done, incredible!
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The Thirteenth Floor
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about "different" worlds, a little like Matrix--thought-provoking,
very well done, not violent
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Bowling for Colombine
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documentary about violence in the US--incredible, unbelievable,
interesting, funny, scary, amazing, very well done
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Rabbit-proof Fence
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true story, Australian movie--beautiful, unbelievable, sad,
incredible!
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With Honors
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movie about life, death, Harvard, stress, and friendship--strong,
emotional
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Pay It Forward
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about the power to change things--sad, happy, thought-provoking,
full of hope
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Dangerous Beauty
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true story, about Italy and "courtesans"--beautiful,
sad, amazing, thought-provoking, a bit racy
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Pie
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independent movie, about the brain and mathematics--incredible,
strange, very weird, a little disturbing, scary
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13 Conversations About One Thing
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about fate and money--thought-provoking, strange, well done,
very interesting
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The Last Emperor
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true story, about the life of China's last emperor--long,
very well done, incredible
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Eat Drink Man Woman
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Chinese movie about family and food--very funny, sad, makes
you hungry!
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Bagdad Cafe
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about friendship, life in the desert, and Las Vegas--very
funny, full of good feelings
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Gattaca
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about genetically "enhanced" children--thought-provoking,
not violent, amazing, raises very important issues
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SLC Punk
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about drugs, friendship, and fate--sad, weird, a little disturbing,
very interesting
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Life is beautiful
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about Italy, WWII, and the power of the family--amazing,
beautiful, incredible, funny, sad, ...incredible!
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Oh Brother Where Art Thou
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based on the Odessey, about three prisonners from Mississippi
who try to find a treasure--funny, interesting, very well
done
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Shine
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true story, about music and madness--strange, sad, beautiful
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Traffic
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about Mexico, the US, and drugs--very well done, quite violent,
strong, amazing
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The barbarian invasions
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about life, death, family, finding meaning in what
we do, wasting time--very touching |
Schindler's List
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true story, about WWII and the Jews in Poland--very sad,
long, violent, disturbing, amazing, strong, beautiful!
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12 Angry Men
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about the power of convictions and the truth--very well done,
impressive, thought-provoking, a classic!
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All About My Mother
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Spanish movie, about life's choices--quite disturbing, strange,
happy, sad
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Talk to Her
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Spanish movie, about love and madness--very disturbing, strange,
sad
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Fried Green Tomatoes
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about friendship and segregation in the South--funny, happy,
full of good feelings
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American History X
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about racism and neo-nazis--very violent, very disturbing,
amazing, incredible, very interesting, beautiful!
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Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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about 3 women who are going crazy, love, murder,
terrorists, gazpacho, and taxi drivers--very funny! |
Shower |
Chinese movie about the difference between the young
and the old--excellent, funny! |
Run, Lola Run
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about fate and time--weird, fast, cool!
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Il postino
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about the great writer Pablo Neruda, in exile in Italy, and
about love--beautiful and sad
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Three Colors: Blue, White, Red
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3 French movies to watch in this order, about fate, death,
music, Poland, prison, betrayal--beautiful, strange
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