Thursday, September 3rd

Rhetoric is all around us!

Today's Goals

• Continue to seek and develop answers to our DRIVING QUESTIONS!
  
• Evaluate perspective and bias in media and identify evidence that supports your claims around bias

Starter
Listen to the NPR story on the impact on Navajo farmers.  How does looking downstream further influence your perspective on the situation?

Announcement
Chaperons? Names/emails/phone #s
Power Lunch today in Lori's room

Agenda
1. Consume a couple bits of media on the #AnimasRiver Spill together as a whole class

• https://twitter.com/hashtag/animasriverspill
• Owner of Gold King Mine speaks
• Pair Share:  What is his perspective on the situation?  How does hearing his view modify your perspective?

2. Open research time OR More Sample StoryCorps Podcasts (depends on time)

• Seek out resources to provide you with a unique perspective to answer any of our driving questions
• Take notes using this template 
• Did you find a SUPER good resource? Add it to this document  pretty please!
  

Follow your own curiosity or click on some of the links below:  

Need further clarification on the Superfund dilemma?  Check out these resources during independent work time:

• See this Durango TV coverage on the Superfund issue
• EPA Superfund Info
• Summary of Clean Water Act
• Website of the Animas River Stakeholders Group
• History and Process of the ARSG
• Good Samaritan Info

Further perspective on Navajo impact

• Animas River Spill Unleashes Potential Disaster on Navajo Nation
• Navajo Nation President Angry with EPA
• Navajo Nation Prepares Lawsuit Against the EPA
• FEMA may deploy response team to Navajo Nation 

For historical context

• For a broad historical perspective:   History of mining in Colorado
• Silverton history
• More context:  Gold King: A long history of public risk for private gain  (What's the bias here?)

3. Share out findings to the whole class ("Whip-around") OR Exit Ticket depending on time

• Briefly summarize what you learned from your research
• What perspective on the river do you feel yourself developing? What leads you to that perspective?

4. StoryCorps Podcast Time

• Animation: "No More Questions"
• Interview: "I Never Said a Word to Anyone about Bambi"
• Podcast # 436: Listen Closely
  
• Podcast # 438: The Wind and the Rain
• Animation: "John and Joe"
• Animation: Traffic Stop

Exit Ticket (if time.....)

• What feedback do you have for me at this point about the project?
  
• What is one "Ah Ha" "Say What" or "I Wonder" from your research today?
  
• What perspective on the river do you feel yourself developing? What leads you to that perspective?