Genie #2

Please read the rest of the Genie packet Chapters 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 & 14 and answer the following questions.

1. What was so significant about Chomsky's argument?
2. What do you make of Chomsky's bird argument on p. 36?
3. Do you agree with Chomsky's claim about the island at the end of Chapter 7? Please explain your answer.
4. In Chapter 10, why were Genie's observers pleased to see her hitting other children?
5. Describe how Genie's language was developing.
6. After reading Chapter 11, what are the primary differences between the reading and the film?
7. How did the film, Wild Child impact the symposium members? What is meant by: "all of us saw in the movie what we were prepared to see to confirm to our own biases."?
8. What do you think of Dr. Elkind's quote on p. 59? How do you feel about Dr. Freedman's suggestion on p. 59-61
9. Why was it important for Itard to teach Vistor to "imagine the needs of others (p. 73)"? Does CAS do this? Why or why not?
10. After reading Chapter 14, do you agree that Truffaut's film ending was too optimistic?

For full credit, please post these questions to your blog by March 22nd.