Monday, 5/2

Today's Goals:  
1. Understand what sense of place means and see examples of how writers 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. 

STARTER #36
This starter is meant to get you brainstorming for our sense of place writing assignments.  Choose which of the following three elements you need to most brainstorm/reflect on:

• Option 1: What is a place that holds significant value to you? It can be inside or outside, urban, rural or mountainous, etc...  What does this place mean to you? Why? How do you feel when you're there?
• Option 2: Check back in on your environmental ethics.  Have they changed since starter #31? If so, how would you define your ethics now? What caused that change?
• Option 3:  Journal about your perspective of energy production and which energy schemes you think we need to most pursue/develop as nation.  

Class Biz

• Homework this week will be to continue working on your sense of place essay (the requirements for which we'll be going over thoroughly in class today) as needed.  Drafts for peer critique are due next Monday, May 9th, B.O.C. 

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• It's kindness week! (Shouldn't every week? Well, yes, but sometimes we need a little push to ramp it up.  So, ramp it up, eh?)

• We have two guest speakers (the last of our Energy and Place speaker series) this week.  On Wednesday, Gregg from Shaw Solar will be here to speak about solar energy and on Friday, Luke Mehall, a professional writer and dirtbag climber, will be here to read an excerpt from his most recent book and share writing tips for y'all.  Yeeeeeeehaw for adult-world connections and relevant learning!  

​AGENDA
1. Group share-out on either your inspiration journal or research 

2. Turn in your assignment!

3. Transition to SENSE OF PLACE!   Ted Talk "Why Stay in Chernobyl? Because It's Home" (8 min.)

​4.   Intro to Sense of Place powerpoint

5.  Sense of Place writing assignment rubric/description! 

6.  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.

7. Let's look at some examples of 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?  

8. IN YOUR GOOGLE DOC of STARTERS....
READ AT LEAST 1 MORE essay 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
Silverton, CO

 
***Sense of Place Writing Assignment Resources***

• **Minilessons Stations (good examples of excerpts from student writing focused on specific skills)
•  Sense of Place Essay Task Statement, Rubric + Examples and Sources for Inspiration 
• Google Doc Folder to all project resources
• Quick link to writing mini-lessons folder 
• Elements of Nature Writing handout + Metaphors/Similes/Analogies/Alliteration/Assonance
• List of poetic devices
• Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments
• Past Years' Student Examples linked  on Ashley’s DP