Title: 04 - Cloning Responses
Course: English 4A SU15 > Section: Unit: That Couldn't Really Happen

Copy/Paste these questions into your submission. Answer each one with complete sentences.

1. What is cloning?

2. Is cloning morally right or wrong? Support your answer.

3. If you favor it, are there times when it’s wrong? If you don’t, are there times when it’s right?

4. Would you want to be cloned? Would you clone a favorite pet?

5. Does cloning a pet involve the same ethics as cloning a human?

6. How would the cost involved affect your decision as to whether you wanted to clone your pet?

7. What are the arguments against pet cloning? Are they similar to the arguments against human cloning?

8. Do religious beliefs affect beliefs about cloning? How so? Do those beliefs come into play in deciding to clone a pet? Why or why not?

9. Should pet cloning be legal? Should human cloning be legal? How are you arriving at those decisions?

10. How will society arrive at those decisions?

11. Are fertility treatments and abortion linked to the same issues that cloning involves?

12. What are your predictions for the future of cloning? Upon what are you basing your predictions at the moment?

Grading form:

Key Ideas & Details Rubric

This rubric is aligned to the MN Academic Standards for Language Arts in the area of Reading Literature: Key Ideas & Details.

Writing Conventions

- 0-2 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 3-4 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 5-6 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 7+ mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
Explicit/Implicit Support

- Cites 5 or more passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 4 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 2 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Does not cite passages from the book to support analysis.
Theme

- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors that can make the conclusion difficult to understand.
- Contains some reasoning errors that make the conclusion difficult to understand or inaccurate.
Author Choice

- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text and additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text or additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization.
- Does not demonstrate the impact of the author's choices.