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STICKY LESSON - Supplemental Exercise

Establishing An Anticipatory Set I received lots of fun input about the first mini-lesson. So, ok, we haven't really started to peel the whole onion yet…but let's try something called Establishing an Anticipatory Set. By way of reminder, an anticipatory activity is simply an activity that engages attention and focuses thoughts on the learning objective. Good anticipatory activities, in my opinion, set the stage for new learning (i.e. whets the appetite), "baits the hook", and builds a level of "hmmmm I wonder what comes next?" So here's a quick Anticipatory Set Activity designed to keep us focused and maybe a little curious and wanting to learn more about STICKY LESSONS:

To help you become familiar with how Urban Legends are born, and why some "stick", read each of these and decide between two options: Is this a Potential Urban Legend or This Event is Not True and Won't Stick. Analyze each one and defend why your choice might or might not become an Urban Legend that sticks.

This is a self-directed lesson. I would love to provide you feedback if you care to send me your answers, but even if you don't, we'll be referring to these later.

Remember: Generally, ideas/stories/legends stick because they are

SIMPLE UNEXPECTED CONCRETE CREDIBLE EMOTIONAL STORY FORMAT

We'll be learning about each of these in detail in the weeks ahead…in the meantime, see how you'd apply them to these: In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, always on Sunday mornings, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. every Sunday. So a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 am, all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about.
 * __Scenario #1__**
 * Just when the clock struck 11:00, the part-time Sunday sweeper,**** e****ntered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.****

Does It Stick? Why or why not?


 * __Scenario #2__**
 * The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00.**
 * At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.**
 * A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.**


 * Does it Stick? Why or why not?**


 * __Scenario #3__**
 * A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle.** I**ntending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places.**
 * Up to that moment, he had been happily listening and dancing along to his Walkman.**
 * Does it Stick? Why or why not?**