G. Willow Wilson
Resources & Discussion
Kamala Khan Comic and Lesson
Now You Try
Show story with an arc. You might consult the following resources:
From Wiki: Consider the following:
- What different kind of powers do superheroes have?
- Why do they fight?
- How do they secure their secret identity?
- Where do they usually seek shelter?
- How do we get to know what happened to them?
- When did most of their ‘exciting’ lives usually begin?
- What are core values of you and hero? See list https://jamesclear.com/core-values.
You will need:
- Extraordinary powers
- A distinctive costume
- A strong moral code
- A headquarters or base of operations
Student Model "A"
By Charles Superphage
Back Story:
Tired of explaining the intricacies of cell biology to his bored high school students, a teacher responds to an off-topic question about his superhero preferences. He describes a ‘superphage’. This concept/character necessitates a description of viruses and more specifically a type known as a bacteriophage. Lacking the ability to reproduce on their own, these viruses invade bacteria to use the bacterial cellular equipment to multiply. The bacterium is killed in the process. Since each bacteriophage type only invades a particular bacterial species, they might be used to combat certain bacterial infections, thus avoiding the shotgun attack taken by current antibiotics that kill good bacteria along with the bad. The teacher thus sneaks in a lecture on how bacteriophages function and speculates about this ‘superphage,’ a virus that has been altered by the gene-splicing technique called CRISPR. ‘Superphage’ has been tailored to attack specific cancerous cells, avoiding the wider destructive influence of traditional chemotherapy. His descriptions accurately cover real biology, where research is poised at the brink of exciting discovery.
Student Model "B"
Frederick Griffith: Almost Superscientist
By Lauren
Wikipedia:
Frederick Griffith (1877–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith’s Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function.He showed that Streptococcus pneumoniae, implicated in many cases of lobar pneumonia, could transform from one strain into a different strain. The observation was attributed to an unidentified transforming principle or transforming factor. This was later identified as DNA. America’s leading pneumococcal researcher, Oswald T. Avery, speculated that Griffith had failed to apply adequate controls.A cautious and thorough researcher, and a reticent individual, Griffith’s tendency was to publish only findings that he believed truly significant, and Griffith’s findings were rapidly confirmed by researchers in Avery’s laboratory. His discovery was one of the first to show the central role of DNA in heredity.
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.The lunar crater Avery was named in his honor.
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