Monday, April 18th

Random giphy of the day: "Revenge of the buxom pink dung beetle"?  (I predict you all will knock this week's tests out of the park like this buxom pink dung beetle transformer knocked the van off the cliff)

​Starter #32
Podcast: "Freakonomics Podcast: Why Bad Environmentalism is such an easy bad sell" (Just the parts on Bamboo:  0:00-7:00 and San Francisco: 17:25-End)

• How can thinking exclusively locally about environmental impact have global environmental impact?
• How could NIMBY-ism be related to environmental justice?  

Class Biz
1. Test Corrections

• If you got under a 90% or less you may do test corrections.
• For all the questions you got wrong or incomplete, write down why you got the answer wrong and then what the correct answer is for 1/2 credit.

​2. Camping trip info

• Final head count (and driving needs)
• Packing list (take off utensils/plate-- I have all that for y'all-- but ADD camping chair!)
• $10 deposit due Wed. at latest
• Where are we going? (Muley Point, in Cedar Mesa west of Blanding, UT) Google map of directions
• Dietary restrictions/needs?
• Group gear needs (bring to school on Wednesday!)
• Tents/stoves for cooking and camping groups

3. Honors: Turn in Cat's Cradle proposals if you're doing a project on this book.

4. This week's assignment:

• Read and prepare for the Edward Abbey seminar on Wed. 2nd period.
• Complete the inspiration journal assignment #1 that will be posted on Wednesday's DP blog (due Monday-- those on camping trip will complete it ON our trip overlooking the lovely gooseneck formations of the San Juan River!)

AGENDA
1. 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.
(POWERPOINT ON NATURE WRITING: Helpful additional source if you need it)

2. Get a sense of the aura that is Edward Abbey (his tone of voice, his mannerisms, his essence): Watch this video!

3. Edward Abbey seminar prep work time

• The  purpose of these readings is for you to begin to get a sense of one type of nature writing as well as to analyze and critique Edward Abbey's environmental ethics.
• "Freedom and Wilderness" is from a book of his called The Journey Home, published in 1977. It is more of a politically-focused essay.  The other reading contains excerpts from his book, Desert Solitaire, published in 1967, and is more about his  sense of place and environmental ethics as influenced in part by his time as a park ranger in Arches National Monument.