Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like Today — in 2014 Painting of Asimov on his throne by Rowena Morill When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence — assuming the world survived the nuclear threats of the Cold War. Writing in The New York Times, Asimov imagined a world that you might partly recognize today, a world where: “Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on. “[M]en will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. Isaac Asimov wasn’t the only person during the 60s who peered into the future in a fairly prescient way. Arthur C. Walter Cronkite Imagines the Home of the 21st Century … Back in 1967
The davinci code tokillamockingbird-LitChart Author Bio Full Name: Nelle Harper Lee Pen Name: Harper Lee Date of Birth: 1926 Place of Birth: Monroeville, Alabama Brief Life Story: The youngest of four children born to Amasa Lee and Frances Finch Lee, Nelle Harper Lee earned a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1949 and spent a year at Oxford in England, but in 1950 moved to New York to focus on writing. Key Facts Full Title: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Coming-of-age novel (bildungsroman); social novel Setting: The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression Climax: The trial of Tom Robinson; or when Bob Ewell attacks Scout and Jem Protagonist: Scout Antagonist: Bob Ewell Point of View: First person; Scout is looking back at the events of the novel from some unspecified future time. Historical and Literary Context When Written: 1950-1960 Where Written: New York City and Monroeville, Alabama When Published: 1960 Literary Period: Modernism Extra Credit Descendant of General Lee. "Dill" Capote.
5 Myths about Introverts and Extraverts at Work Foldables & Study Guides Lose a foldable? All foldables & study guides that we have made in class are available below. If you need help filling in the blanks, please see the completed foldable or study guide in the classroom. Remember, many of these files were copied back-to-back, so a two-page file is the front and back of the foldable. 6th Grade Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 11 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 12 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Decimals Foldable (PDF 43 KB)Four-door foldable for decimal operations 6th Grade Ratio, Rates, and Proportions (PDF 46 KB)This foldable gives definitions and examples of ratios, rates, and proportions. 6th Grade Proportions (PDF 32 KB)This foldable shows the steps needed to solve a proportion. 6th Grade Percents (PDF 70 KB)This tabbed-book is a great overview of percents. Mrs.
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