Sunday, October 11, 2009

Hoaxes and Tall Tales

This week, each of you will do a brief investigation on one of the following either Hoaxes or Tall Tales. First of all, let me explain what a hoax is. It kind of like a big, elaborate lie; for example, the three naufragos. A tall tale, on the other hand, is an exaggerated story told by people who were beginning to inhabit The United States.

Each option can only be used once! So if you see two comments on one hoax or tall tale, choose another one. There should be enough choices, I think.

Click on one of the following links to investigate, then read the instruction on the bottom.

Hoaxes
Loch Ness Monster (Feel free to look elsewhere for
Bigfoot/Yeti information, but these sites are
Chupacabras well-founded coming from
War of Worlds international newspapers)

Tall Tales

After investigating about one of the above, write two to three sentences about what you learnt using the following verbs in a reporting clause:
argue assert claim report
admit agree assume believe doubt explain feel
ie. Many people assume (that) Robert is the smartest person in Mexico.

Don't forget you can use some new vocabulary, too.
believable convincing dubious fishy misleading
plausible conceivable far-fetched iffy phony

12 comments:

  1. I really believe that Robert Garcia is the best techer, you know it teacher jjajaja.
    Many people admit that you make the classes so interesting an funny and that is important for be a good tacher.
    I feel like you are not only a teacher, you are a good friend too, that's nice. Thank for all teacher you are the best you know it!!! n_n

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  2. Hi...!! I read about War of Worlds...

    I think it is very interesting how pople can react to things that they heard, I believe in aliens also I like SciFi but I think that peolple were very exaggerated in the way they react.
    Also I like it... very interesting... (lol)...

    see u robert... thankx ttl...

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  3. OMG!! I am always 2nd lol... well see u :S

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  4. Many people believe the chupacabras relly exist.
    I agree with the people who said that the chupacabras is the ex-president Salinas.
    Some people claim that they ever saw the chupacabras.

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  5. BBC report that the loch ness monster is just a big hoax. I agree! Because the BBC reporters assert one thing that is pretty bealivable: "People just see what they want to see"
    That is part of the human nature,humans tend to create things on their minds when they are bored.

    Many people admit that "nessi" is real but i think is far-fetched.

    See ya!!!!! n_n

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  6. its believe that robert is a happy teacher,and he make his classes funny but his exams are a little bit difficult jejejejeje!!!!¡¡¡
    you are a very convincing teacher, that´s what i think good luck¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ bye

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  7. It''s 3:03. You can turn comment but it will be counted as late and you will get points taken away from your exam.

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  8. Damn... I'm doing school homework!!! :(

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  9. HeLLOOOO!!!

    rObErT i´m so sorry ups.. =(

    Ok i opinion that chupacabras is a really good invention for the humans some people
    assert that it exits but i think it isn´t true why because get this if it appered in some time in tha past why it isn´t appers actuallly it is so dubious...

    ok see you !!!!!

    I need to go to english class..

    ups...

    =)

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  10. ok,...what I've learned about The loch ness monster is, that a BBC team claim that it doesn't exist because they used a satellite and none of the monster was founded, BBC argue that information about this myth was misleading. Although, many people assume that they have seen a "misterious thing" over the water but because of the distance their opinion is not well-founded. Personally I'm dubious about the existence of the monster

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  11. i`m so sorry; ok i read about The crop circles.

    in american continent, many people believe that the crop circles are made by extraterrestres, others argue the crop circles are just a hoax made by the goverments similar to the chupacabras.
    i argue this article is convincing to me, becuse i asssert the crop circles are msde by humans

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  12. hi robert! i'm really sorry that i couldn't sign before , but I had some problems....
    i read about the loch ness monster..
    it was believed that the beast that lived in the lonch was a plesiosaur, and it was assumed that the plesiosaur was able to survive in the cold waters of the lonch ness, it was said that the myth of the loch ness monster was invented by people because they just see what they want to see, and at the end researches find out thet the monster doesn't exist....

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