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AHS * HUMANITIES 11

Tuesday, April 29th

4/29/2014

WEDNESDAY: Be prepared to spend half the class brainstorming or beginning your exhibition visual piece!

THURSDAY: Email Ashley your revised draft with the rubric at the bottom AND submit evidence of a peer-critiqued draft by the beginning of class for 10 process points
Be sure your draft has the following in place:

1,500 words
Abstract:Your essay must include an abstract that explains how you are defining sense of place according to the categories of sense of place (what type of relationship and/or community attachment do you show in the essay) and what your environmental ethic is. Your abstract should include a quote from your essay that best shows both of these components.
Title: Give your essay a creative title! Center it at the top of your essay.
Name: Write your name underneath the title.
Font: Size 12

Starter:

Copy and paste the rubric to the end of your draft.

Highlight TWO "Content" categories you'd like your critiquers to focus on.

Copy and paste this on the top of your draft:

A focus question for both Ashley and your peer critiquers: What are you most struggling with? What do you think you are missing? Etc...
"Before emailing this to Ashley for feedback, I must include my first draft with evidence of 1 peer critiquer's feedback (i.e. as additional attachment in email). I must have the rubric at the END of the document after my refined draft"
"Highlight my use of elements of nature writing (metaphor, simile, analogy, writing with sound, etc..)"
"Email my draft to Ashley by Thursday at 8:15 am for 10 process points"
Save evidence of peer critique and make refinements before emailing to Ashley for feedback
Is it a min of 1500 words?
Do I have an abstract?

PEER CRITIQUE PROTOCOL: Peer critique groups

1. Author: State your focusing question and the 2 content areas of rubric you'd like the group to focus on

2. Critiquers: Track changes on one document together. Focus on 2 content areas and focusing questions. Also, look out for sentence structure and spelling/grammar errors.

3. Critiquers: Discuss your feedback with the author and ask any clarifying questions you may have.

Monday, April 28th

4/28/2014

Agenda + Essay Draft Deadline Review

Mini-lessons Stations
Work Time- Manage your time according to these objectives:

Peer critique is tomorrow. Bring a printed copy if you prefer that, otherwise, your critiquers can track changes electronically
I'll return your draft on Monday morning, May 12th for you to refine Monday-Wednesday before Wednesday's Exhibition.
You'll need to work on your visual/exhibition deliverable this week and over Osprey Week!
You must submit evidence of 1 peer critique to me BEFORE I will critique your draft on Thursday (10 point process grade). EMAIL ME YOUR REFINED DRAFT + CRITIQUED DRAFT
Last day I'll accept drafts for feedback: Monday, May 5th

Important Resources

Friday, April 25th

4/25/2014

STARTER
Skim through the two exhibition rubrics listed below in "Important Resources" (Visual Piece and Happiness and Meaning project rubrics) and fill out this document with which project you think you're doing to do for exhibition and roughly what medium (collage, painting, video, etc...) you're thinking of.

Quinn's Edmodo Post:
http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/has-durango-sold-its-river-and-its-soul-to-recreation

Important Resources

AGENDA

Let it flow like a turtle in the riptide!

But not like this guy. He's not going anywhere!

But if you're feeling particularly amped about your essay, maybe like these guys?

Tuesday, April 22nd

4/22/2014

TODAY'S GOALS

Understand the guidelines for the Sense of Place writing p iece
Critique student example sense of place writings
Generate ideas and creative thought for your own writing!

REMINDERS

Missed seminar on Friday? Meet me during lunch today!
Book club proposals due Friday for honors

Starter: Silently read the Sense of Place Writing Task Statement and Rubric and write down questions you have about it in your journal.

AGENDA
1. Go over the Sense of Place Writing Task Statement + Class of 2014 Guest Speakers to share their experience with this project

2. JOURNAL # 12: Critique student examples from the Class of 2014

Read 2 of the 4 student examples and as you do, jot down notes in your journal that answer these questions:

What is this student's environmental ethic?
Does he/she use elements of the “Grand Style” to SHOW the place to the reader? (at least two of the following should be present: metaphor, simile, analogy, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, sensory images like sight, taste, touch, sound, smell). QUOTE the lines from the writing and explain which element of the Grand Style it uses.
Overall, what is your reaction to this piece? Do you like it? What specifically do you like? What questions did it raise for you?

3. Turn in your journal (be sure each entry is numbered): LIST OF JOURNAL REQUIREMENTS

4. Begin brainstorming/drafting your written piece

Stuck? Look through the list of examples and inspiration I provided on the task statement document

Friday, April 18th

4/18/2014

STARTER:

Review your partner seminar prep and make sure you have three solid seminar questions to draw from today.
If I didn't check your annotations, please get those out.

HOMEWORK:
Don't forget about the inspiration journal! See the homework page for necessary links.

AGENDA

Seminar or structured work time

Seminar Groups

Structured work time requirements (complete in this order):

1. Read this Example Student DP Reflection from class of 2014 and in an email to Ashley, write a reaction to this student's reflection and explain to Ashley whether or not this example helped you better understand the goals of this project and what I hope you may get out of it.

2. Take the survey linked below

3. If time, work on any one of the four inspiration journal entries

Thursday, April 17th

4/17/2014

Learning Goals

Analyze and critique Abbey's use of the Elements of Nature writing, including the Grand Style, as well as his sense of place and environmental ethic.

AGENDA
1. Reminder on Homework + Elements of Nature Writing Review

Inspiration Journal (4 entries) + caught up on all in-class journals by Tuesday, 4/22 (See the homework page)
Test corrections due tomorrow
Notes from Elements of Nature Writing handout
If you miss seminar (or are not prepared) you'll have to make it up with me during lunch next week.

2. Work time: Seminar Prep on Abbey reading and partner responses

Template for organizing Part II and III responses

3. Parkour, Sense of Place: The Environment and Inner Peace: Check out this documentary on parkour. We may watch the first 7 or so minutes.

Wednesday, April 16th

4/15/2014

Learning Objectives
1. Understand the 4 elements of nature writing

2. Critique writing by Edward Abbey in his description of sense of place, perception of the relationship between man/technology and nature and his environmental ethics.

3. Learn about the nation’s largest and oldest river conservation organization, Trout Unlimited, through the presentation of Ty Churchwell.

STARTER
Read the handout on elements of nature writing (page 1 and 2 only for online version) and answer the questions on the backside at the bottom of page #2.

AGENDA
1. Edward Abbey: Reading assignment for Friday's seminar- Last major reading assignment of the year!

Scroll down on this website to listen to a short reading by Abbey from his essay "Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom"

Read the instructions and summarize them to your neighbor for each of the three parts of this assignment.

Template for organizing Part II and III responses

2. EXIT TICKET: Write down the requirements for Friday's seminar:

What do you have to annotate for?
Why am I making you annotate so specifically?
What components are partner work?
When should you finish PART 1: Reading and Annotating by?
Should you have your partner notes printed for seminar?

2. Guest Speaker: Ty Churchwell with Trout Unlimited (2nd period) or Chemistry (6th period)

Tuesday, April 15th

4/15/2014

LEARNING GOALS
1. Understand what sense of place means and see examples of how writers and filmmakers define and describe sense of place.

2. Familiarize yourself with some frameworks of "sense of place" as characterized by relationships to place and community attachments.

3. Generate ideas and creative thoughts!

AGENDA
1. Intro to Sense of Place powerpoint
LINK TO THE ARTICLE ABOUT SENSE OF PLACE THAT IS IN MY POWERPOINT

2. Sense of Place Essays from Orion Magazine
"A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” —Rebecca Solnit

A. Read the Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments and circle the attachments/relationships that most connect to your relationship/attachment to place and community.

PAIR SHARE: Explain your selection(s) and why you chose it/them.

B. Sense of Place Essays from Orion Magazine

TOGETHER: Read "Traverse City, MI"

PAIR SHARE: Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here? What sort of relationship to the place does the author have? How would you characterize his community attachment?

JOURNAL #7 complete C and D below:
C. READ AT LEAST 2 MORE yourself, asking the same questions of each. (Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here? What sort of relationship to the place does the author have? How would you characterize his/her community attachment?) Does the author reveal his/her environmental ethic? Note your connections and observations in your journal.

Suggested reads:
Sioux Falls, SD
The Backcountry
The Bluffs: Pacific Palisades, CA
Oakland, CA

D. Name this portion of your journal after a place, such as in the titles of the Orion essays. Write about that place with details that attempt to reveal either the nature of your relationship with the place, your community attachment to the place, or both.

Monday, April 14th

4/14/2014

LINK TO IMAGES FOR TODAY'S WRITING PROMPT

Learning Goals

Get your creative juices flowing!
Understand the concepts of Innovation and Mutation (both forms of ADAPTATION) to the way we've changed nature

See examples of how artists perceive and react to nuclear energy

Starter:
Journal Prompt #5 (see slide # 3 of the Intro to Creative Writing powerpoint linked below)

Announcements:

Environmental Ethics Tests (I have your grades, will pass tests back tomorrow)
If you get lower than an A-, you can do test corrections: Explain why you got the answers wrong, and rewrite them correctly. You'll get half of the points back. If you are confused, please conference with me at lunch or during office hours on Tuesday or by appointment.
Test corrections are due by this FRIDAY beginning of class.
Letter of recommendation requests: I accept 15 total. First come first serve. I already have 3 requests in. See Rachael Sands for guidelines for requesting these. Please submit requests via email.
Article linking small-scale earthquakes to fracking (thanks to Rachel Gonzales for sharing)

Agenda:
1. Introduction to Creative Writing and Journal Prompts

2. Go over Inspiration Journal Requirements (due Tuesday, April 22nd) and review homework for the week

Reminder on Journal Prompts (that is the link to all journal prompts)

3. Innovation and Mutation: Powerpoint

Friday, April 11th

4/11/2014

Proposed site for the Pinon Ridge Mill

Learning Goals
Evaluate the various issues (economic, social, environmental) at stake in making decisions about energy development as applied to Naturita, Colorado and the Pinon Ridge Mill.

Google Images of Uranium Mills

Agenda
1. Get into your assigned interest group and prepare for the Town Hall Meeting on the Pinon Ridge Mill

2. Town Hall Meeting

3. Continue Innovation and Mutation powerpoint (JOURNAL #4 take notes on this powerpoint following the Lecture Roadmap slide)

RESOURCES FOR PINON RIDGE MILL TOWN MEETING http://pinonridgemill.com/This is the website for Energy Fuel, the nuclear power development company in charge of building and running the proposed mill.

http://www.examiner.com/article/pinon-ridge-uranium-mill-one-step-closer-to-special-use-permit: This article summarizes a town meeting in 2009 to hear from opponents and proponents to the mill. It summarizes pros and cons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/fukushima-cancer-rates-risks_n_2779729.html This article discusses the cancer risks after the Fukishima nuclear power plant explosion

http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-uranium-mill-makes-no-sense-in-western-colorado: This is an article in High Country News by a Telluride resident who argues against the mill.

Colorado Government Report on Health Risks of the Pinon Ridge Mill: Additional source for tomorrow's town hall meeting

Homework: None!
Use this weekend to make up any journals you may have missed (SEE THIS LINK) and get caught up on any missing work if you were absent from school this week.