Rise Of Literacy (P1)
How many people copies of "Time" by John Cheever were circulated?
What is: 3 million?
How many hours did the average American household watch in 2010?
What is: Television
What now makes entertainment limitless?
What is: The arrangement of devices we have at our use for our entertainment.
What club does Mrs. Cooney officiate?
What is: Speech and Debate
In "The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever, what is the story about? (THE PLOT)
What is: The protagonist boards a titular train and is greeted by a familiar and now-exotic sight of a car full of commuters reading the evening newspaper.
What was Postman's argument in his literary work "Amusing Ourselves to Death"?
What is: That television hijacked American's attention and turned issues like politics into cheap entertainment.
What scenarios/environments COULD books compete in when it came to the uprising of the television?
What is: If people wanted to watch and old movie and go to a video store, and how shows aired only on specific and particular days. Some people favored reading at times over television because of this.
It has been reported that people watch TV with a phone in their hand more often then not. Why?
What is: People like to monitor social media and text with friends instead of be held down to watching a movie because of the vast amount of opportunities you have with a smartphone.
When is the independent novel project due?
What is: October 13th
What was John Cheever known for? (as an author)
What is: His dark fables of suburban malaise (discomfort; uneasiness)
What was the problem with the uprise of television?
What is: Television presented everyone with any subject matter that was considered entertaining. The television wasn't necessarily doing the job a newspaper would do or any other literary outlet, and would be putting entertaining elements to keep an audience engaged.
What would some *fewer* people do before falling asleep?
What is: They would turn off the television and read.
Netflix has told directors and screenwriters to assume the audience may not be paying attention to the movie or show they may have on in that current moment, and told them to remind us on what is going on in that show or movie. What reason is this for?
What is: People may put shows or movies on for background noise and entertainment for others while they keep themselves occupied with their smartphone or any other device.
What was Mrs. Cooney's favorite childhood book?
What is: Goodnight Moon
Why may the author use words like "Veneration" and "Malaise" to convey their point?
What is: They use these words to make the reader begin thinking and use their comprehension skills to decipher the point on why they may have used that specific word. They have a mini dictionary and the very bottom of the page to help with this, and provides the context behind why they would use that specific to make their argument valid.
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Why did Postman battle against the use of television for literacy?
What is: He stated and implied numerous times how television was almost giving us parts of the answer of a subject the audience would be satisfied hearing, and not the entire story and ending opposed to other sources giving full background.
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Why did the smartphone and internet make it practically impossible to have silent time for reading?
What is: The devices made multiple distractions and kept the people's minds invested in what was going on outside of their book.
Why nowadays do people have to be "really determined to read?"
What is: With the amount and frequent usage everyone has with devices meant for entertainment, it is hard to stay focused on a text that only has words inside of it.
What are Mrs. Cooney's favorite scents?
What is: Any fall scent
Why did the "appetite" for the written word begin to grow?
What is: America began to become more literate, and the nation, becoming wealthier, were also now becoming educated at a "remarkable pace." Stories famous for there literature back in the '50s and '60s such as "Time" by John Cheever, were also starting to emerge and become popular in the literate AND nonliterate world.
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Postman wrote "Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself." What is Postman trying to say?
What is: Television has and is becoming the main source for all information we are taking in, pertaining what we learn and take in from the real world as a form of entertainment.
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What factors made reading unappealing to people as devices like the television and smartphone started becoming a trend?
What is: The smartphone and television would serve as an outlet of entertainment that people generally found to be more fun to read and look at opposed to a book that only had pages with a bunch of words to read.
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Why is society shifting away from literacy through the usage of cell phones and television?
What is: Society finds entertainment and devices like the smartphone more valuable then books due to the appealing messages and entertaining values they may get opposed to a simple book or newspaper.
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What is Mrs. Cooney's spirit animal?
What is: A soaking dumpster rat.