Classwork on Wed 2/18:
- Please read this interesting article about Brazil's Piraha tribe, the tribe without numbers! http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html
- Answer and turn in:
- What is the main idea of this article?
- What would the following psychologists say about this tribe?
- Benjamin Whorf
- Noam Chomsky
- BF Skinner
Please complete online quizzes 1 and 2 for unit 7B by midnight Thursday 2/19.
www.worthpublishers.com/myersap1e
Be sure that you are signing in with your student account and having scores sent to your instructor, not your scorecard.
Here are some fun related links for this unit:
- Online game: The Tower of Hanoi critical thinking game... can you solve it???!!! http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/towers/
- Article: 10 Steps to Raising a Multilingual Child http://www.multilingualchildren.org/getting_started/tensteps.html
- Animal psych article: "The dog that pretended to feed a frog" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/09/07/animal-imagination-the-dog-that-pretended-to-feed-a-frog-and-other-tales/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
- And here's a TED Talk by linguist Steve Pinker about what our language habits reveal.
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