Wahoo High School/Mr. Minnick's Classes 2017-2018



English 11Name ______________________________________________Mr. MinnickARTICLE OF THE WEEK“The Blindness of Social Wealth” David Brooks, New York TimesWhat quotation does Brooks use to introduce the main idea of his essay?What percentage of Americans say they are lonely in 2018? List four statistics Brooks gives to build upon his main idea in the first part of the essay.Define “pathology” as it is used in paragraph 5.What link does Brooks make between loneliness and illness?What percentage of young people suffered from severe mental health issues in 2012? In 2015? What does Brooks suggest is the cause for this increase?List the three effects smart phones are having on teenagers, according to the article from The Atlantic that Brooks quotes. Find the thesis in the article and write it below. (Hint: It is in either paragraph 8, 9, or 10.)The big issue surrounding Facebook and other social media companies is not privacy, according to Brooks. What is it? What are the three results of the “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation that Brooks describes in Paragraph 11?A British anthropologist observed that societies exist on three levels. What are the three levels?Where do the three levels stand in America today, according to Brooks?What are the two groups Brooks identifies in Paragraph 14?Explain what Brooks means when he says that “many of us who are socially wealthy don’t really know how the other half lives”? ................
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