Homework – 9 Due: June 19th
Part I:
Next lecture, you are going to engage in the 5th role-play. The question of that role-play is:
“How would you react to uncertainties presented by journalists and scientists concerning the 2 degree limit? What are your demands towards journalists‘/scientists‘ communications?“
The contributing roles are: a 70 year old former Professor of Physics, an 8 year old child in the 3rd grade of elementary school, a 40 year old retailer of VWs and a 27 year old owner of a coffee-to-go bar.
- Define your role more concretely and prepare a sign stating your definition. Bring this to the role-play.
- Prepare the arguments for your role in the role-play regarding the question in your role-group.
- Decide upon the tasks: main speaker.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by June 12.
Part II: Due: June 26th
At the end of the semester, you have to write an essay to pass the class. We decided to provide you with two steps of internal reviews in the writing process. To prepare for the review, we ask you to:
- Read the Essay Guidelines on the blog carefully. Write down questions.
- Choose topic and title of your essay. Draft a first structure of your essay- think about questions like: What is my hypothesis? What is storyline of my essay? What literature do I want to use?… Make sure to be able to explain your ideas to your fellow students and the lecturers on 26th
Part III: Due: June 23rd
Draft a “paragraph”-structure of your introduction. This “paragraph” structure should provide some details on what you want to introduce and discuss in which order in the introduction. In groups of two, you will discuss each other’s drafts on 26th of June. Further information will be given next class.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by June 19.
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