1. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Daily Writing In your journal respond to the following: How do you define cheating? Is it ever justified to cheat?

2. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Daily Writing - Friday In your journal respond to the following: Would you be willing to lie in court for a friend if you knew he/she would spend his/her life in jail if convicted? Explain.

3. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

4. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Quiz, Intro and Chapter 1 1.Instead of doing what the experts expected, what happened to the national crime rate in the late 1990s? 2.What is Roe v. Wade, and how, according to the authors, did it affect the national crime rate? 3.What do the authors say about the connection between campaign spending and winning or losing an election? 4.What is an incentive? 5.What, in your own words, might be the connection between incentives and cheating?

5. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Quiz, Chapters 2 and 3 1.How did Stetson Kennedy undermine the Ku Klux Klan? 2.What is information asymmetry? How has the internet damaged "information asymmetry“? 3.How do real estate agents use language to influence the selling price of a house? 4.How do experts use "conventional wisdom" to their advantage? 5.Why do most drug dealers live with their moms?

6. English 100 Tuesday, 8-25 through Friday, 8-28 Reading Quiz, Chapters 4 and 5 1.The authors choose to compare and contrast the effects of abortion in Romania and the United States. Briefly discuss this comparison and contrast. 2. List four of the “conventional wisdom” reasons for the drastic drop in the violent crime rate in the United States during the 1990s 3. Explain the rationale for arguing that legalized abortion after Roe v. Wade led to the decline in violent crimes in the United States. 4. Although the authors do not address moral incentives v. social and economic incentives, speculate about the conversation that needs to take place with regard to the incentives surrounding legalized abortion. 5. According to the authors in Chapter 5, which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? How do the authors support this answer?

7. English 100 Tuesday, 8-25 through Friday, 8-28 Reading Quiz, Chapter 6 and Epilogue 1.What is ironic about Winner and Loser Lane? 2.Which is a stronger indicator of success in life: one's motivation or one's name? Why, do YOU think, this is so? 3.In the end, according to the authors, what effect does one's name have on one's success? 4.Why, do you think, do the authors close with the example of Roland Fryer and Ted Kaczynski? Short Answer: The authors say in the epilogue, "The most likely result of having read this book is a simple one: you may find yourself asking a lot of questions." What questions are you wanting to ask (list three)?

8. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is Freakonomics? Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life The conventional wisdom is often wrong Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes “Experts” use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so

9. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is Freakonomics? Freakonomics aims to explore the hidden side of everything Freakonomics understands that there is a difference between correlation and cause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkMQa E1liE

10. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is Freakonomics? Think like a Freak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M Pl2yJKwi4I

11. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is Freakonomics? Freakonomics begins in asking questions and then works to unravel the complexities of correlation and cause in order to develop an answer to these questions.

12. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is Freakonomics? Your task: Identify five questions of which you do not know the answer but would like to know the answer

13. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 What is an incentive? Identify at least 10 incentives that are working in your life? Describe some ways in which as school teacher might be able to improve the scores of his or her students on a standardized test. Describe what it means for a Japanese sumo wrestler to be “on the bubble” and what incentives this wrestler and his opponent

14. English 200 Tuesday, 8-25-15 through Friday, 8-28-15 Is cheating ever justified? In all honesty, describe the ways cheating is used in our culture. Incentives – “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing” EconomicSocialMoral