Tuesday, 9/15

Starter #11
Watch this Video of the Gold King Mine spill  and react in writing.  What do you see in the videos?  Does watching this footage do anything to modify your perspective?

Riddle of the day: "The Dragon and the Knight"
There is a magical yet deserted island far far away from our quaint mountain hamlet of Durango, Colorado. On this (semi) deserted island live one Knight and one Dragon.  They have been living together on this island for hundreds of years and have finally grown quite tired of each other.  It is time for one of them to get to steppin'.  They decide that the most fair way to decide which one has to ship out is through a battle of wits.  On this island, there happens to be 12 lakes, numbered 1-12, all with poisonous water.  If you drink the water from any lake, you will die.  The ONLY antidote is to drink from a lake numbered higher than the lake you previously drank from.  So, if you drank from lake #1, you can drink from lakes 2-12 to survive.  The only catch is that lake #12 is located high up on a basin and only the dragon can fly to it.  

The battle of wits goes like this: The dragon and the knight show up at dawn and serve each other a cup of water.  Whomever survives, gets to stay, obviously, because the other will be dead.  Who wins and how so?

Class Biz
1. Gradebook is updated
2. Review dates

• Seminar: Thursday 9/17
• Janae-LINK/Chem Lab: Friday 9/18
• Final Reflection and Storycorps Interview uploaded to Storycorps.me: Tuesday 9/22
• Storycorps Interview deadline extension for those who need it

3. Audacity/Garage band help: Who are our in-class experts? 
4. If you missed class on Friday, be sure to complete the starter and the Orion reading + response questions posted on Friday's blog.

Agenda
1. 10 minutes to review your notes on Snowbarger's article in Orion from Friday's class and then we'll synthesize the article as a class:

• What is Jeff Snowbarger's bias about the Animas River?  
• Upon what has he formed that bias?
• Do you agree with his perspective?
• What does Snowbarger mean by the following quotation? "This was how a free people behaved. And this is what seems buried in our current disaster, the notion that decisions collectively made in the name of freedom almost always have detrimental consequences for those who follow."
• What commentary is Snowbarger making about the American West and America herself?  How does he extrapolate what has happened to the Animas onto his larger ideas about America?

2. WORK TIME TO-DO LIST

• Seminar Prep and Final Project Reflection  (sign up for a conference if you want help prepping for seminar!) (Seminar Group Assignments)
  
• Schedule your interview (conference with me for help)
  
• Produce your interview if you have already recorded it (see guidelines on page 2 of this document)
  
• Conference with me about any and all of these things