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1. + COMMON BOOK AY 2011-2012 “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”

2. + MVC’s QEP include broad based involvement be tied to student learning address a college need be sustainable, and include a plan for assessment To meet the expectations of our accrediting agency, the Commission on Colleges - Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the QEP must:

3. 2008 -20009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2007-2008 2011 -2012 MVC’s Common Book Project Satisfies those criteria.

4. Writingthrough the Common Book + Presenters: Prof. Nathan Cole and Dr. Janice Franklin

6. “I barely have time to cover the required material. I do not see how this fits in with my course(s).”

7. “Will I need to write more Student Learning Outcomesfor this? I don’t have time.”

8. “Writing is not one of the competencies for my course.”8/17/2011

9. + question: How might I use this book in my course(s)? 8/17/2011

10. STEP1: Read the book +

11. Who was Henrietta Lacks? Henrietta Lacks - CBS Sunday Morning + CBS Sunday Morning Interview with Rebecca Skloot

12. STEP2: If not the book in its entirety, identify sections that you can assign for reading by your students. +

14. Establish broad and multiple perspectives on the individual in relationship to the larger society and world in which he or she lives, and to understand the responsibilities of living in culturally and ethnically diversified world; Stimulate a capacity to discuss and reflect upon individual, political, economic and social aspects of life in order to understand ways in which to be a responsible member of society; Recognize the importance of maintaining health and wellness; Develop a capacity to use knowledge of how technology and science affect their lives; Develop personal values for ethical behavior; Develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments; Use logical reasoning in problem solving and Integrate knowledge and understand the interrelationships of the scholarly disciplines. Review the Perspectives in the CORE STEP3: + Which of these perspectives attaches to your course? What sections of the text can be useful toward incorporating one of these perspectives? 8/17/2011

15. + example: Use logical reasoning in problem solving 8/17/2011

16. Examples of Programming Around this Text + Colleges/Universities

17. Michael Hester, M.D., Medical Ethicist + University of Arkansas Medical Ethics “history of ethics in research and the difficult ethical issues in this year’s One Book selection: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

19. #2: Create a DISCUSSION BOARD ASSIGNMENT around this topic- What are the ethical issues embedded in this story? 8/17/2011

20. The photographs are part of the Biomedical Collection of London’s Wellcome Trust. In chapter 29 of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot describes a gift sent by Johns Hopkins cancer researcher ChristophLengauer to the children of Henrietta Lacks, a fourteen-by-twenty inch print of Henrietta’s chromosomes. Lengauer developed the technique known as fluoresence in situ hybridization, or FISH, which involves applying dyes to chromosomes and exposing them to ultraviolet light. When chromosomes fluoresce under such light, researchers may discover important DNA trait information. Fluorescent HeLa cells, while cancerous, are often strikingly beautiful. Skloot describes Lengauer’s photograph as resembling “a night sky filled with multicolored fireflies glowing red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and turquoise.” + Human cell in early cytokinesis: Matthew Daniels, Wellcome Collection

21. Henrietta’s Immortal Cells + These HeLa cells were stained with special dyes that highlight specific parts of each cell. The DNA in the nucleus is yellow, the actin filaments are light blue and the mitochondria—the cell's power generators—are pink. Palomar.edu

22. + Whose Body Is It Anyway? New Short Plays by Arkansas Playwrights One Book, One Community and Bob Ford, visiting instructor in the University of Arkansas Drama Department, present Whose Body Is It Anyway? New Short Plays by Arkansas Playwrights, 11 a.m. Saturday, October 16. The Fayetteville Public Library hosts the event featuring five 10-minute plays inspired by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

24. #4: This text is being translated into a film this fall. Prepare a SHORT ESSAY on the considerations involved in this process. What changes might occur during the process of moving this story into the film realm?8/17/2011

25. POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES + MVC Academic Divisions

27. -- Cell research, tissue, cancer, AIDS research, marrying cousins, genetic disposition, syphilis experimentation, tuberculosis experimentation, etc .

28. Art

29. -- Description of row houses, general store, hospitals, statue of Hopkins. Artistic detail in photos.

30. Humanities

32. Create a spreadsheet that reflects the revenue HeLa Cells have generated over a determined amount of time.

33. Calculate the profits generated throught the distribution of HeLa and the possible earnings that should be awarded to the Lacks family.

34. Business

35. -- Manufacturing, patent process.

36. Math/Economics

38. -- curriculum in grade school, research institutions

39. English

40. -- Storytelling, writing, genres, biography, qualitative research, genealogy

41. History

42. --Timeline of events including segregation, states of Virginia, Baltimore, tobacco production, medical testing on the disadvantaged.

43. Government

44. – Nuremberg Code, Hippocratic oath, Institutional Review Board, Federal Law, Nixon National Comm. Act, Judge Wapner verdict, Supreme Court resolutions, declarations.

45. Sociology

47. RESOURCES +