Bell Ringer _______:

  1. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge sees the ghost of Jacob Marely.  He refuses to believe that he is seeing a ghost.  He explains it by saying:

    “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

    The words in bold face and black type are an example of:

    a. Situational Irony
    b. Allusion
    c. Metaphor
    d. Pun

    1. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Getting people to work well in teams is crucial to accomplishing ambitious goals. Teams work a kind of magic in developing important ideas and getting hard work done, and they give us the close human contact and shared purpose that we all need. But there’s a dark side to teams too: group identity can be too powerful. The desire to be an accepted member of a group can prevent individuals from forming their own moral judgments.

     Adapted from Peter S. Temes, The Power of Purpose

Assignment: Are teams or groups beneficial for individuals, or does group membership prevent individuals from forming their own moral judgments? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.