Annotation Directions: EMHS 9TH SUMMER READING 1. Make a point of underlining the two most important ideas in each “column” of reading. Each year, students at EMHS do summer reading. You can underline a single phrase or a couple Reading over the summer keeps one’s mind “awake” of sentences, but please choose your selections and provides your class with an immediate platform carefully. to work on from the first day of school. The material for this packet was selected for its subject matter and 2. Of the two ideas you underline in each column, relevance to you. select the most important one and rephrase it at the bottom of the page in your own words. Please make a point of reading all six of the articles 3. When you finish an article, review your contained in this packet. Since there are several annotations. On a separate sheet of paper, different pieces, you can break this reading up as write down the “takeaway points” for each your summer schedule allows. All articles should article—the most important ideas. be read and annotated by the first day of school. Please bring this packet with you on There are many online sources to further explain the first day of school. how to annotate a text. When you come to school on the first day, this packet should be completely read This packet should be printed out and read carefully. and annotated. In addition, you should have You should always read with a pen or pencil and use your takeaway points on a separate sheet of annotation strategies to help yourself make sense paper completed. These materials will be used for of the text. To annotate a reading means to mark it the first week or two of class to begin work. up as you go, making notes of important ideas. You will be graded on your annotations. This Scientific Test Will Tell You How Addicted connectedness, not being able to access information and giving You Are to Your Smartphone up convenience. Then, they tested the questionnaire on 301 undergraduate students. by Carolyn Gregoire Are you a smartphone junkie? Rate each item on a scale of 1 Smartphone addiction is no joke, and now there’s a scientific (“completely disagree”) to 7 (“strongly agree”) and tally up your way to measure it. total score to find out. Be honest! A new study from Iowa State University has identified some of 1. I would feel uncomfortable without constant access to the central aspects of nomophobia — that’s “no mobile phone” information through my smartphone. phobia — with a handy new 20-question survey measuring iPhone codependence. Scroll down to take the quiz. 2. I would be annoyed if I could not look information up on my smartphone when I wanted to do so. “Nomophobia is considered a modern age phobia introduced to our lives as a byproduct of the interaction between people and 3. Being unable to get the news (e.g., happenings, weather, etc.) mobile information and communication technologies, on my smartphone would make me nervous. especially smartphones,” Caglar Yildirim, one of the study’s authors, told The Huffington Post in an email. “It refers to fear 4. I would be annoyed if I could not use my smartphone and/or of not being able to use a smartphone ... [and] it refers to the its capabilities when I wanted to do so. fear of not being able to communicate, losing the connectedness that smartphones allow, not being able to access 5. Running out of battery in my smartphone would scare me. information through smartphones, and giving up the convenience that smartphones provide.” 6. If I were to run out of credits or hit my monthly data limit, I would panic. The research builds on a University of Missouri study published in January, which found that being separated from 7. If I did not have a data signal or could not connect to Wi-Fi, your iPhone can have a real psychological and physiological then I would constantly check to see if I had a signal or could effect, including impaired thinking. find a Wi-Fi network. “iPhones are capable of becoming an extension of our selves 8. If I could not use my smartphone, I would be afraid of getting such that when separated, we experience a lessening of ‘self’ stranded somewhere. and a negative physiological state,” Russell Clayton, a doctoral candidate and the study’s lead author, said in a statement. 9. If I could not check my smartphone for a while, I would feel a desire to check it. To develop the questionnaire, the Iowa researchers interviewed nine undergraduate students about their relationships with If I did not have my smartphone with me ... their smartphones, identifying four basic dimensions of nomophobia: not being able to communicate, losing 10. I would feel anxious because I could not instantly communicate with my family and/or friends. your phone at home for a day or get stuck somewhere without WiFi, but the anxiety isn’t too overwhelming. 11. I would be worried because my family and/or friends could not reach me. 61-100: Moderate nomophobia. You’re pretty attached to your device. You often check for updates while you’re walking down 12. I would feel nervous because I would not be able to receive the street or talking to a friend, and you often feel anxious when text messages and calls. you’re disconnected. Time for a digital detox? 13. I would be anxious because I could not keep in touch with 101-120: Severe nomophobia. You can barely go for 60 seconds my family and/or friends. without checking your phone. It’s the first thing you check in the morning and the last at night, and dominates most of your 14. I would be nervous because I could not know if someone activities in-between. It might be time for a serious intervention. had tried to get a hold of me. 15. I would feel anxious because my constant connection to my Gregoire, Carolyn. “Are You Addicted To Your Smartphone? This family and friends would be broken. Scientific Test Will Show You.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 18 May 2015. 16. I would be nervous because I would be disconnected from my online identity. 17. I would be uncomfortable because I could not stay up-to- date with social media and online networks. 18. I would feel awkward because I could not check my notifications for updates from my connections and online networks. 19. I would feel anxious because I could not check my email messages. 20. I would feel weird because I would not know what to do. 20: Not at all nomophobic. You have a very healthy relationship with your device and have no problem being separated from it. 21-60: Mild nomophobia. You get a little antsy when you forget “Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for GROWING UP DIGITAL, WIRED FOR DISTRACTION jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate by Matt Richtel professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — On the eve of a pivotal academic effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired bedroom desk: book or computer? differently.” By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have But even as some parents and educators express unease about finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer students’ digital diets, they are intensifying efforts to use reading assignment. But he has managed 43 pages in two technology in the classroom, seeing it as a way to connect with months. students and give them essential skills. Across the country, schools are equipping themselves with computers, Internet He typically favors Facebook, YouTube and making digital access and mobile devices so they can teach on the students’ videos. That is the case this August afternoon. Bypassing technological territory. Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an It is a tension on vivid display at Vishal’s school, Woodside improvement in his grades, but without having completed his High School, on a sprawling campus set against the forested only summer homework. hills of Silicon Valley. Here, as elsewhere, it is not uncommon for students to send hundreds of text messages a day or spend On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he hours playing video games, and virtually everyone is on explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate Facebook. gratification.” The principal, David Reilly, 37, a former musician who says he Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But sympathizes when young people feel disenfranchised, is computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli determined to engage these 21st-century students. He has they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and asked teachers to build Web sites to communicate with learning. students, introduced popular classes on using digital tools to Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects record music, secured funding for iPads to teach Mandarin adults too, is particularly powerful for young people. The risk, and obtained $3 million in grants for a multimedia center. they say, is that developing brains can become more easily He pushed first period back an hour, to 9 a.m., because habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — students were showing up bleary-eyed, at least in part because and less able to sustain attention.