Hot Zone Assignments Spring 2015

Hot Zone Assignment #1 Read Part I (thru page 153 in paperback) by Thursday April 23 (A day), Friday April 24 (B day) On April 23/April 24 there will be a quiz over part I. Also due on that day is a Reader’s Response. I will give you a quote today. Read and respond in written form to that quote. You must write at least a half a page (not including re-writing the quote). I’m the ultimate judge of what constitutes a half a page. So don’t make it iffy.

Essay for homework Due April 23 (A), April 24 (B) Reader’s response (at least a half a page...excluding the quote!!) to this quote: “A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth. All of the earth’s cities are connected by a web of airline routes. The web is a network. Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day—Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly. Charles Monet and the life form inside him had entered the net.” (page 16 in paperback edition of book)

Hot Zone Assignment #2 Read Part II (thru page 282 in the paperback) by May 1 (A day), May 4(B day) You will have a quiz over part II on 5/1, 5/4 A comparison of two strains of Ebola is due on 5/1(A), 5/4 (B)…see next slide

Hot Zone Assignment #2 Compare and contrast Ebola Sudan and Ebola Zaire. Include cases mentioned in book, speed of infection, virulence, mortality rates. You can use a double bubble map or a Venn diagram or a chart, or you can write your answer in paragraph form.

Hot Zone Assignment #3 Read the rest of the book (part III) by May 13 (A), May 14 (B) There will be a quiz over part III on May 13, May 14. Also there will be another readers response due on that day

Hot Zone #3 Readers Response– Due May 13 (A), May 14 (B) Choose ONE of the following and write a half page. The actual quotes are on the next 4 slides: (page numbers are for paperback version. Kindle % are approximate) 1.Explain quote on p. 383 (Kindle: 93%) 2.Explain quote on p. 383 (Kindle: 93%) 3.Explain quote p.405 (Kindle: 99%) 4.Explain quote on p.407 (Kindle: 99%)

Hot Zone–Due 5/13 (A), 5/14 (B) 1. Explain quote on p 383 paperback 1. Explain quote on p 383 paperback “The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century.”

Hot Zone–Due 5/13 (A), 5/14 (B) 2. Explain quote on p 383 paperback “ In effect, I had witnessed a crucial event in the emergence of AIDS, the transformation of a thread of dirt into a ribbon of tar.”

Hot Zone–Due 5/13 (A), 5/14 (B) 3. Explain quote on p 405 paperback, “The emergence of AIDS, ebola and any number of other rainforest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.”

Hot Zone–Due 5/13 (A), 5/14 (B) Explain quote on page 407 paperback, Explain quote on page 407 paperback, “The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance.”