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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to structure the three thesis points. Your reading this week includes Chapters 17-20, and a summary of one of those chapters is due Friday, also. Be sure to practice quoting in MLA format by including direct quotes with attribution and a citation. See Purdue Wise Owl (link in Websites tab on left of Blackboard screen), for aIDitional help if you need it. We are going to continue sentence combining using conjunctions and proper punctuation, and learn about denotation, conotation, and inferences. See RWACI for further definitions of each. Instructions: MLA I need a summary Due on January 25, 2016 I need a thesis due January 27, 2016

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks READING GUIDE                                    Chapters 1-5

Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph

1. The author uses several similes to describe cells. What simile does she use to describe

the way a cell looks? What simile does she use to explain the functions of the different

parts of a cell? What do these similes suggest about biology?

2. What is mitosis? What beneficial biological processes involve mitosis?

3. What simile does Donald Defler use to describe mitosis?

4. What happens when there is a mistake during the process of mitosis?

5. According to Defler, how important was the discovery of HeLa cells?

6. As a high school student, Skloot began researching HeLa cells to find out more about

Henrietta Lacks. Examine pages 5 and 6 and write down each step that Skloot took to

begin her research.

Chapter One: The Exam

1. How long did Henrietta wait between first telling her girlfriends that “something didn’t

feel right” and going to the doctor?

2. Why does Sadie think Henrietta hesitated before seeing a doctor?

3. What did Henrietta’s first doctor assume the source of the lump on Henrietta’s cervix

was? What stereotype or bias might this assumption be based upon?

4. Why did David Lacks take Henrietta to the public wards at Johns Hopkins instead of a

closer hospital?

5. Explain what the Jim Crow laws were.

6. Who was Henrietta’s gynecologist?

7. Review the notes on Henrietta’s medical history found on page 16. Based on the

objective details in her medical chart, what can you infer about Henrietta’s life and

personality?

8. Based on her medical chart, how would you describe Henrietta’s feelings about

doctors?

9. What did Howard Jones find “interesting” about Henrietta’s medical history? What does

this finding suggest about Henrietta’s cancer?

Chapter Two: Clover

1. Why did Henrietta end up being raised by her grandfather, Tommy Lacks?

2. What are the connotations of the term “home-house”? What does this term suggest

about the values of the Lacks family?

3. How was Day related to Henrietta?

4. Skloot uses vivid imagery and details to describe Henrietta’s childhood in Clover.

Locate a passage that you found particularly effective or memorable, and explain why

you selected it.

5. Describe the relationship between Crazy Joe and Henrietta.

6. How old was Henrietta when she had her first child with Day?

7. What was different about Henrietta’s second child, Elsie?

8. Compare the medical terms describing Elsie’s condition with the terms used by

Henrietta’s friends and family. What are the connotations of the two sets of terms?

9. How did Pearl Harbor change life in Turner Station?

10. Contrast the working conditions of black workers and white workers at the Sparrows

Point Steel Mill.

Chapter Three: Diagnosis and Treatment

1. How are different types of cancer categorized?

2. Summarize Dr. TeLinde’s position in the debate over the treatment of cervical cancer.

3. Explain how the development of the Pap smear improved the survival rate of women

diagnosed with cervical cancer.

4. How did doctors justify using patients in public hospital wards as medical research

subjects without obtaining their consent or offering them financial compensation? Do

you agree or disagree with their reasoning? Explain your answer.

5. How did TeLinde hope to prove that his hypothesis about cervical cancer was correct?

6. What was George Gey’s position at Johns Hopkins?

7. Explain what an immortal cell line is.

8. Explain how TeLinde and Gey’s relationship led to Gey obtaining a tissue sample from

Henrietta’s tumor.

9. Analyze the consent statement that Henrietta signed on page 31. Based on this

statement, do you believe TeLinde and Guy had the right to obtain a sample from her

cervix to use in their research?

10. Do you think Henrietta would have given explicit consent to have a tissue sample used

in medical research if she had been asked? Do you think she would have understood

what was being asked of her? Explain your answers.

11. Were cells taken only from black patients? Were black patients generally treated

differently from white patients in the early 1950s? Explain your answers.

Chapter Four: The Birth of HeLa

1. Summarize the main obstacles Gey and his assistants faced in their effort to grow cells.

2. Where did the name “HeLa” come from?

3. Based on the descriptions of Gey found on pages 38–39, offer three adjectives that best

describe his personality.

4. Explain how Gey’s roller-tube culturing technique works.

5. What happened to the HeLa cells that Mary cultured?

6. Gey chose to give away samples of HeLa to his colleagues almost immediately. Do you

think this was a good decision? Explain your answer.

7. Once HeLa started growing, was Henrietta informed that her cells were being used in

Gey’s research?

8. What is the implication of the author’s decision to use the term “birth” to describe the

initial growth of HeLa cells?

Chapter Five: “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside”

1. After her diagnosis and treatment, how did Henrietta behave? What can you infer

about her personality based on this behavior?

2. According to Ethel’s cousins, why did she dislike Henrietta?

3. What was Elsie’s early life like?

4. Why did Henrietta and David (Day) Lacks decide to place Elsie in the Hospital for the

Negro Insane?

5. What specific details let the reader know that sending Elsie away was difficult for

Henrietta?

6. Why do you think Henrietta initially chose not to tell people about her cancer

diagnosis? What does this decision suggest about Henrietta’s personality?

7. What important information did Henrietta’s doctor fail to give her before starting her

cancer treatment? How did she react when this information was eventually shared with

her?

Writing Assessment One:

20% of your Final Grade

Assignment/ Writing Prompt:

Although the right to privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the Supreme Court has established that it is inherently protected by the Constitution.  In a two-page typed essay, discuss three specific ways that the Lacks family’s right to privacy was violated.  Discuss the importance of the right to privacy.

OR

Skloot begins the book with the following quote from Elie Wiesel: “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”  In a two-page typed essay, discuss three ways that Henrietta lacks and the members of her family were treated inhumanely, as objects, not people with families and feelings, by doctors and other medical professionals.

Guidelines for Writing:

 

Cover stories or people that relate to your thesis. Do not get bogged down in covering all details or chapters in this book.

Write your paper in your own words. Do not rely on summaries, book reviews, online sources, or friends/classmates.

Use MLA formatting to set up your paper. (This includes having one-inch margins, reasonable type/font size, double-spaced lines, proper page numbers, in-text citations, etc.)

Revise your writing for clarity and conciseness. Avoid clarity issues that come from excessive wordiness, parallelism errors, mixed grammar errors, and modifier issues.

Introduce your textual references and quotations appropriately. Use effective signal words—such as asserts, believes, explains, contends, etc.—after the author’s name to set up a quote, summary, or paraphrase of the ideas in the book.

Use clear transitions. Always use transitional words—such as next, however, consequently, etc.—between each idea.

Check your grammar, spelling, and mechanics.

Make sure your paper is at least 2 pages in length and sticks to the writing prompt

 

 

Grading:          Refer to the attached grading rubric to see how your paper will be graded. (All DRE 098 students will be graded the s