Parable of the Sower

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Video Background/Interactive Source

2 5
Article Author Interview
Watch the video or read the transcript

3 6
Book Review TED Talk

How to demonstrate your learning with the sources:

For each of the sources from the grid above, answer the appropriate response
questions (below) in the spaces on the next page.

Articles--what passage(s) related to your book reading and how? What questions does
this prompt for discussion and/or further research?

Background/Interactive source--what are 5 facts discovered from this resource? What

surprised you? How does this source provide some context to what you’ve read in the
book so far? What questions does this prompt for discussion and/or further research?

Video, TED Talk, or Podcast--what are 5 facts you discovered from this video/podcast?
What editing elements (music, juxtaposition, other features) added to your
understanding or immersion in the video? What questions does this prompt for
discussion and/or further research?

Author interview or book review--What additional insight did this interview or review
provide that you didn’t already know? How well was this book received? What
questions does this prompt for discussion and/or further research?
Responses
Source #1

Citation “5 Kinds of Modern Day Slavery in U.S Supply Chains” Youtube ,

uploaded by Source Intelligence , 13 Aug, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbFKCMGGEnM

Response 5 facts:
- The United States is one of the top importers of goods that are
high-risk for modern day slavery
- Modern day slavery capitalizes on peoples vulnerability,
discriminarion, and general lack of law
- Child labor involves exposing childeren to mental,physical,social
or moral harm
- States imposed labor occurs when authorities force citizen to
work to boost
Editing elements:
- This video is interesting because i learned alot of things i didnt
know about slavery.
Questions:
- What was the imprtance of bonding labor?
- Was bonding labor a good thing?
- Why depts can never be repair?

Source #2

Citation Dont Force Your Religious Opinions On Your Children, by Richard

Dawkins, uploaded 19 Feb, 2015
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmGnsWgIi_FAxtql-t5Se-onnxS
EmgZrrGJAyNZX348/edit

Response A passage that relates to the book i’m reading is Parable of the Sowers
by the same author they both include multiple plot elements that
predict our current situations in the real world.
Questions:

Source #3

Citation Ocravia E. Butlers President Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make

America Great Again”, By Abby Aguirre, 26 July, 2017
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_1FwpyGCFOnZReqNt9oJ7paH
7I4S0XFISRy9QLe1knE/edit

Response Didn’t Know:

 - In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to be awarded a
MacArthur fellowship.
- As a child, she often accompanied her mother to work at a wealthy
Pasadena household, where the help entered through back doors.

Questions:

what made her start writing books when she was a kid?

Source #4

Citation http://www.impactlab.org/research-area/climate-science/

Response 5 Facts:
- global mean temperature evolution alone can’t tell us how climate and
weather are changing on the ground, where people live.
- The higher the global rise in temperature, the more the climate system is
affected
- Changes in climate conditions can affect the health and function of
ecosystems and the survival of entire species.
- Climate change will increase the spread of pests and pathogens
- The climate also can cause shrinking in glaciers
Book:
If you really ask me this source does not give me any context in the book i’ve been
reading
Surprise:
What surprise me is when it said “health risks through rising air temperatures
and heatwaves” because if your body is to hot you can have a heat
stroke or anything can happen and you die
Questions:
How does climate change affect humans health?
What can cause a climate change?

Source #5

Citation Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and
 Religion, uploaded by democracy now, 11 Nov, 2005
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/11/science_fiction_writer_octavi
a_butler_on

Response Didn’t Know:

- Octavia Butler wrote her first story when she was 10 years old.
- Race and slavery is a recurring theme in her work
- Octavia is the author of ten other novels including the parable
of the sower series.
- She is the recipient of many awards including the Nebula Award
and the MacAuthor “genius” coward
Book Recieved:
From what i read this book was received very well because its very
fascinating and i could never get bored.
Questions:
- If you was

Source #6

Citation “Manipulating the Moments that turns us into criminals” Yotube,

Uploaded by TEDX-TALKS, 13 July, 2017

Response 5 Facts:
- Nine out of ten people committed crimes at some point in their
lives
- We all faced moments when our morality, however strong, is
bypassed
- Human behavior is shaped by circumstances.
- Venues worked to reduce conflict
- Reducing stress and strain is an exceptionally good way of
reducing violence.
Editing Elements:
- This video was interesting because i found myself fascinated in
forensic files and this video it shows the behavior of criminals
and how they solve it
Questions:
- How can we manipulate the moment that turn us into criminals?
- How can we reduce dramatically reduce crime?