Monday, December 1, 2014

English 10; Performance Task for the excerpt from "Simplexity"

In a one page essay response to the following prompt from page 134 in Collections 3.  

Performance Task

Writing activity: Analysis

What does Kluger's analysis of response durng an evacuation tell you about human nature?  Write an analysis using evidence from the text as well as your own experience.


  • Reread Simplexity, making notes about how humans behave in crisis situations and why.
  • Add to your notes your own thoughts about how you might react as well as evidence from other real-life events.
  • Use your notes to draft a one-page analysis of why people act as they do during a crisis.
  • Organize your ideas in cause-and-effect order to make your points clear to readers.  
  • Type the assignment in MLA format.

The assignment is due December 2, 2014.  

Hermione Nickens