Monday, April 8th

TOPIC: Environmental Justice and Sustainability

Starter

Read "Celebrity 'fractivists" from The Durango Herald

• ‘What does “NIMBY” stand for?
• What is the tone of this article- pessimistic, uplifting, discouraging, critical, etc....?
• Is NIMBY-ism an ethical approach to environmental activism?

Colleen's Survey!  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/86SZTRF

Definitions:

• Sustainability:  Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
  
  
• Environmental Justice: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines Environmental Justice as "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies"
  
  

Cancer Alley Trailer

AGENDA

1. Case Study on Justice and Sustainability (2 short readings and responses)

2. Class Discussion 

3. Explanation of the week's homework 

Announcements

• Honors Proposals due today
• Maureen meeting sign-up
• Camping trip meeting today at lunch
• Honors meeting tomorrow- guest speaker Kat Hollis on gender equality in Myanmar
• Bring in old sporting goods
• Masquerade tickets!
• Turn in stations activity, please.

Homework

Read the 4 article links and complete the note-taking form found HERE in preparation for Thursday's town hall meeting/debate on the Pinon Ridge Uranium Mill.  This is meant to help you evaluate the various issues (economic, social, environmental) at stake in making decisions about energy development as applied to one specific community.  

Friday, April 5th

Today's Topic:  Environmental Ethics and Creative Writing!

Announcements:

• Honors Proposals for Half the Sky are due on Monday.
• Sign-up for a meeting with Maureen for next year's schedule
• Camping Trip- fill out the link on edmodo if interested in going. Lunch meeting next Monday to go over logistics.

Learning Goals

• Determine the strengths and limitations of “The Land Ethic” and Tim DeChristopher’s sense of environmental ethics.
  
  
• Begin to tap into the creative writer within you!
  
  

Agenda
1. Starter: Review The Land Ethic Discussion Questions in preparation for discussion. Jot down your thoughts to 4-5 questions. 

Helpful resource on explaining "The Land Ethic": Click Here

2. Finish the powerpoint lecture on environmental ethics.

3. “The Land Ethic” Class Discussion + "Bidder 70" Discussion

4. Creative Writing Exercises

Homework:
Honors:  Half the Sky Proposals are due Monday

Thursday, April 4th

Environmental Ethics

Starter: Bidder 70 Film Trailer

What questions or reactions do you have to this film trailer?

Agenda:

1.  Finish  Ashley's power point lecture on "Introduction to Environmental Ethics"

2. Watch Bidder 70

3. Go over "The Land Ethic" Vocab and discussion questions
4. Independent Work Time

• Refine Affirmative Action Essay
• Read "The Land Ethic" and think about the discussion questions 
• Finish the Stations Activity (you need to have done 3 out of the 5)

Announcements:
Desert Camping Trip Meeting at lunch

Homework Reminder:

• Affirmative Action refinements are due tomorrow
• Finish "The Land Ethic" for tomorrow's discussion

Wednesday, April 3rd

Starter:  Complete one more STATION 
Save your station responses with your starters.

Agenda:
1. Read the first page of the powerpoint note-taking form and follow the directions to complete page 1.
2. Ashley's powerpoint lecture on "Introduction to Environmental Ethics"
3. Discussion of homework assignment "Bakken Business": QUESTION: Is this progress?
4. Introduction to homework reading: "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold, vocab overview + discussion questions

Homework:
Read and annotate "The Land Ethic" by Friday

Images of the Badlands and Bakken, North Dakota

Fire aftermath in Elkhorn Ranchlands, ND (oil well in left corner)

Oil and Natural Gas Horizontal Fracking

Tuesday, April 2nd

Starter:

"This is the most beautiful place on earth.  There are many such places.  Every man, every woman, carriers in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.  A house-boat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near Hoboken waterfront, or even possibly for those of less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome- there's no limit to the human capacity for homing sentiment" -- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, pages 1-2. 

Starter Task:  Free write or draw a place that you find beautiful or that holds significant meaning to you. Think about why you find it beautiful or why it is important to you.

Agenda

1. Energy and Place Project Overview + Time for Q and A

+ Organization of project process work

2. Stations Activity to introduce various concepts/subject areas related to Energy and Place

3. Ashley's read-aloud of her example personal sense of place essay
4. Critique: does or does not my essay meet the project task description?

Announcements:
Yearbook! Buy them because they are radical and you want to be too.  $60 due tomorrow!
Honors lunch meeting today

Homework:

Finish reading "Bakken Business" and coming up with 3-5 clarifying questions for tomorrow's class discussion

Welcome Back! Monday, April 1st

Objective:  Process my feedback on your midterm essay

Agenda:
1. Announcements and a note on midterm essays
2. Read and summarize my feedback
3. Work time options:

• Refine your essay
• Begin the assigned reading

Directions for Summarizing my Feedback:

• Open the document I emailed you over LINK that contains my feedback on your Affirmative Action midterm essay.

• Re-read my feedback (end comments and margin-comments)

• Roses: Summarize what went well in your paper

• Thorns:
• Writing Mechanics: Summarize my feedback for ways to improve your writing mechanics (organization, sentence structure, clarity of wording, grammar, spelling, wordiness, etc..)

• Content: Summarize my feedback for ways to improve the content or argumentation in your paper (did you have too many generalizations, if so what were they? Did you misinterpret events/ideas?  Did you not provide enough evidence to back up your claims? Did you not connect the dots clearly between your ideas, etc...)

• What is your current grade and what is your goal for your improved grade if you plan on refining it?  If you are not refining, please explain why.

• Do you have any questions about my feedback? 

Announcements

• Half the Sky/Honors Lunch meetings:
• Tomorrow, April 2nd
• April 9th,
• Half the Sky Seminar TBD (DOODLE)
• Refinements on midterm due this Friday
• Missing books
• Junior Deadlines calendar reminder

Homework

• Read "Bakken Business" by Wednesday (paper copy version only) and come up with 3-5 clarifying questions (about the basic facts/details of the article).

• Affirmative Action Essay refinements are due Friday, April 5th.

Missing Book List

Missing Book List Document