Homework for Wednesday

Turn in your vocabulary notebooks
Turn in your 3rd SF short story reports
Be prepared for a short quiz about 3 vocabulary and reading words.

Homework for Monday

Please bring your handout concerning the charts from Chapter 2 (pages 25-28)
AND
Hand in your group's survey concerning Paranormal Belief

• Astrology
• Extrasensory perception
• Witches
• Aliens have landed on Earth
• The lost continent of Atlantis
• Dinosaurs and humans lived simultaneously
• Noah’s flood
• Communication with the dead
• Ghosts
• Actually had a psychic experience

Surveying other ESL students
• Group 1 – Yuguang, Lixiang, Linda, Candy
• Group 2 – Jennifer, Yanting, Siwen

Surveying UWL faculty & students
• Group 1 – Una, Lutfi, Hui, Shine
• Group 2 – Kevin, Ran, Lin

Hope Springs Eternal

This is an expression concerning optimism.
For example, "I believe that hope springs eternal during our darkest times."
Another example, "We will get through the economic crisis because hope springs eternal."

Why are we optimistic?
Scientists have been trying to answer that question for years. Read here.

Homework for Wednesday

Preview Chapter 3 of Why People Believe Weird Things.
There will be an open book exam on this chapter in the lab on Wednesday at 4:00pm.