Having the New Idea “on the Bar”

LESSON 2.12
What Statements – New on the Bar

Sometimes the New variable will be in the relationship. 

Let’s say it is the year 1928.  You have chocolate in one hand (Old information) and peanut butter in the other (Old information). You excitedly clap your hands together. 

What have you just produced?

You have produced a New variable: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.  They are Old information now, but back then Reese’s New. It made the man a fortune.

Individual or Small Group Activity

Determine if the following What Statements are O+O, O+N, N+O, or “New on the Bar.”

    1. The guillotine helped scientists study if the brain in a decapitated head can think.
    2. Most of Greenland is an enormous ice sheet.
    3. I held the school record for the most pushups.
    4. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa uses the sfumato painting technique.
    5. The ancient Aztecs practiced cannibalism.
    6. I was once lost in the Empty Quarter (the world’s worst desert) for three days).
    7. Jesus is my personal Savior.
    8. Sauerkrat and Canadian bacon made Papa Joe’s a major pizza chain.
    9. Randulph Fiennes ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.
    10. The roller coaster was invented to keep teenagers from having sex.

What Statement

Variable 1

Relationship (verb or verb phrase)

Variable 2

Where does the New information occur?*

1.      The guillotine helped scientists study if the brain in a decapitated head can think.

 

 

 

 

2.      Most of Greenland is an enormous ice sheet.

 

 

 

 

3.      I held the school record for the most pushups.

 

 

 

 

4.      Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa uses the sfumato painting technique.

 

 

 

 

5.      The ancient Aztecs practiced cannibalism.

 

 

 

 

6.      I was once lost in the Empty Quarter (the world’s worst desert) for three days).

 

 

 

 

7.      Jesus is my personal Savior.

 

 

 

 

8.      Sauerkrat and Canadian bacon made Papa Joe’s a major pizza chain.

 

 

 

 

9.      Randulph Fiennes ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.

 

 

 

 

10.  The roller coaster was invented to keep teenagers from having sex.

 

 

 

 

*i.e. in Variable 1, in Variable 2, or in the relationship between them?  Or is there no New information?

Individual or Small Group Activity:

Complete the exercise:    Virgin Islands

Optional Activity