Welcome, Dan Olson!


Survey:  Junior's Journey


"Final" Draft Due tonight @ midnight!
Please submit:
1.  Writing
2.  Images that you will use
3.  Works Cited
4.  Self-Assess with Rubric
5.  In the body of the email, answer the following...

• The greatest strength of my project is....
• If I could keep revising, I would.....

Thursday

Finish Dam Nation

Seminar

Preview the work of Dan Olson

WORK TIME AGENDA

1.  Review SLC Guidelines 

2.  Send your prep to me and your advisor (if you have not done so already).

3.  If/when finished, you can work on your project revisions. 

REMINDERS:

Business Casual!

BEGIN DAM NATION.

Film notes!

THIS WEEK
1.  SLC's are tomorrow!  If you do not have Steve, please check in with him about your scheduled time TODAY!!

• SLC GUIDELINES 
• LINK DP requirements
• LINK PROJECT PROPOSAL INFO for EXHIBITION: (page 5 is the DP info). https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-rQ-0RxPd4ndGU1TEx6ckhOazQ&authuser=1

• Past Student DP LINK Examples:

1. http://ggianninydp.weebly.com/link-internship.html
2. http://inodp.weebly.com/link.html
3. http://tshdp.weebly.com/link-internship.html
4. http://saldp.weebly.com/link-internship.html
5. http://alloyddp.weebly.com/link-internship.html

2.  NAS Project Due Dates

• Today:  Sketch of Poster layout due @ end of hour
• Friday:  Images,Writing, Works Cited, and Self-Assessment turned into me (We will assemble the posters after LINK, unless you are itching to do so before hand.)

3.  HONORS:  

• Who has or can get a copy of the Monkey Wrench Gang?  I have some....  Take this with you on LINK:)
• Seminar Reflections due Today!  Please turn in prep also.
• Choice Project by Friday

WORK TIME AGENDA

1.  Starter:  Engage with my feedback and decide what your goal is for project work time today.  

2.  Consult the various resources in this folder for help with some of the issues.  Conference with me for direct help.

3.  Review MLA parenthetical citations.  

4.  At this point, your project needs a Works Cited page (which will be part of the poster).  The Purdue OWL is a great resource for determing how to cite your sources.  

• Electronic Sources
• Books
• Other Common Sources (Many of you will need this list for your multi-media sources.)

I am okay if you use a citation generator like Knight Cite, but you should double check your work against the OWL.  Don't be lazy and just throw a bunch of links on a page:  I will give you a zero for your Works Cited if you do this.

5. Conference with me if you need to.

6. SLC PREP!!!!!!  Be sure you are clear on your scheduled time.  You will not have lots of Work Time tomorrow, so please

7. Finish Quiz?

8. Exit Ticket:  Turn in a proposed sketch of the layout of your poster.

HOMEWORK:  Continue to revise your project!

The Lorax

Quiz!

Texts for Quiz

·         Rachel Carson.  “Man and the Stream of Time.”  Commencement Address at Scripps College (Claremont, CA), 1962

·         Aldo Leopold. “The Land Ethic.” Sand County Almanac. 1949.

·         Chief Seattle’s 1854 speech

·         Dr. Suess.  The Lorax

Today's Goal

• Understand some basics about environmentalism and environmental ethics
• Be able to define the following concepts
• Instrumental and Intrinsic Value
• Anthropocentrism
• Ecology
• Preservation
• Conservation
• Sustainability

Starter (verbal pair share):  React to the video from PEAK meeting.  How does this relate to our project?  What ideological assumptions is the speaker making?  Are her ideas problematic in any way?



Video:  The Overview Effect
Key Question: How has our relationship with Earth changed in the last 50 years?



Lecture:  Intro to Environmental Ethics, Part 1



Reading for Quiz:  Rachel Carson's Commencement Address from Scripps College, 1962.  ADVICE:  annotate for the concepts we learned about today, as well as any connections you see to her work to Leopold's land ethic and/or Chief Seattle's speech.

TO DO:
Read Rachel Carson
Review Chief Seattle speech
Revise Project (draft due Friday)
If you have a complete draft for me that has been revised since peer critique, go ahead and send it!

GUEST SPEAKER: Ty Churchwell from Trout Unlimited

Goal:  Take it in! Connect guest speaker to environmental ethics and Leopold's "The Land Ethic" 

Freewrite Quiz:  How can you relate ideas from Ty's presentation to Leopold's "The Land Ethic"?  What principles seem to guide Ty's environmental ethics?  Be specific, referring directly to the content of his talk


PROJECT CRITIQUE
Goal:  Give and receive specific, helpful, and kind feedback that will help each other improve projects
1. Group Sort:  Divide by annotation/essay; assemble random groups of three
2. Grab two critique sheets to put with your draft (grab the right genre)
3. Three-way rotation

• Specific, helpful, kind!

4. Critique Protocols:

• Annotated Analysis
• Analysis Essay

WORK TIME!
Revise Project
Draft due to me on Friday.
Poster board for tomorrow

Link to Google Folder full of resources for the writing part of this project!

Goals for the Day

• Be able to define and give the characteristics of Aldo Leopold's concept of "The Land Ethic"
• Determine the strengths and limitations of the Land Ethic
• Understand the Gaia hypothesis and be able to connect it to the land ethic

Starter 2.13:  Answer one of Discussion Questions 1-8.



Leopold's "Land Ethic"
Important Quotes:  React to each quote on the mini-whiteboard.  Sketch? Hashtags? Verse? Connection?

• "A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."
• "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
• "A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resource,' but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at lease in spots, their continued existence in a natural state."
• "We have no land ethic yet, but we have drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of biotic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us."
• "A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.  Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.  Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity."
• "Perhaps the most serious obstacle impeding the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from, rather than toward, an intense consciousness of land."

Discussion:  "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold
1.  Share starter answers
2.  What struck us?
3.  What are the strengths and limitations of the land ethic?

Helpful resource on "The Land Ethic" for your review.




What is The Gaia Hypothesis?

Everything is Connected:  Listen to the first segment
Freewrite:  (Everything is Connected)
What is your reaction to the ideas of this podcast?  Can you connect this to the concept of the Gaia hypothesis?  How does this connect to the land ethic?  Use examples from both the podcast and "The Land Ethic" to support your answer.


Work Time Options:
1.  PROJECT!  You have a draft due on Tuesday!
2.  Listen to the other segments of "Everything is Connected."
3.  Explore some of the other Stations that your group didn't get to yesterday.


HOMEWORK:  Draft for Critique due Tuesday!!

Starter 2.12
What do you consider to be your personal "environmental ethics"?  Where do you personally stand on issues of environmentalism?



STATIONS ACTIVITY:  An Intro to Energy and Place
In groups, work through 3 of the stations. 



From the Stanford Encyclopedia

• Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents.

"The Land Ethic":  see vocab sheet and Discussion Questions

Be prepared to discuss this tomorrow!

Work Time!

• Keep moving through the steps!
• Conference with me
• Finish reading "The Land Ethic" for tomorrow

Goals for the Day

• Research
• Refine thesis statement
• Begin to write analysis?

Center for Southwest Studies Researchers:
1.  Follow all library protocols.  Use your time wisely.
2.  Use historical thinking skills.
3.  Ask smart questions of the librarians.



Home-Base Researchers
1.  Read/Research.
2.  Begin to draft analysis?
3.  Refine thesis.
SEND ME AN EMAIL AT THE END OF THE HOUR ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• What progress did you make today?
• What step in the process are you on?
• What are your needs/strugs/issues?

Analysis Writing:

• Let your thesis be your guiding light.  If your research seems to be supporting another thesis, change your thesis.
• Think TEA paragraphs.
• Cite sources parenthetically in MLA.
• Analyze; don't just summarize.
• Elaborate on details.
• Develop Works Cited page as you go

Lunch Meeting Honors Book Club:  Cat's Cradle

Goals for the Day

• Write a working thesis statement
• Make progress on research

Analysis

• What is your thesis?
• How are you documenting your sources?

Project Work Time

• Develop thesis
• Project Conferences (those not going to Library)
• Project Work
• Read "The Land Ethic"

Exit Ticket to Break:  What is your "working" thesis statement?

"The Land Ethic" (due Thursday)

• Link to the reading: "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold
• vocab overview + discussion questions (to help guide your reading/comprehension of the essay)
• Annotation is highly recommended as we will have a quiz where you have to apply the ideas in this reading to a speech by another environmentalist and refer to specific concepts. 

Goals for the Day

• Begin to understand the basic elements of the Energy and Place project
• Make progress on your project

Starter 2.9:  How do you see Chief Seattle's message as relevant in the present day?  Quote at least one passage from the text to support your answer.


DISCUSS

• Which passages struck us?
• What ethics about the land are reflected in his words?  How does he show us the differences between the white relationship with the Earth and his own?  
• How does he use the word "savage" ironically?

Four Corners
1. Global warming has me extremely concerned right now.
2. We use too much energy in the United States.
3. Keeping energy cheap and plentiful should be one of our priorities as a society.
4. I would change my lifestyle and give up some luxuries and comforts in order to protect the natural environment.
5. The government should regulate the types and amounts of energy we use.
6. Protecting the environment should trump the need for cheap, abundant energy.
7. Individual actions can impact the health of the environment.
8. People overreact too much about things like pollution and climate change.  They aren’t as big a deal as people make them out to be.

Energy and Place Project Essential Questions

1. How does energy production impact[1] place?
2. How do your sense of place[2], your environmental ethic, and your understanding of our energy needs influence your perception of man’s use of Earth’s resources and your own lifestyle decisions?

• [1] In defining “impact” you can think about it in terms of the impact on the culture, the health of individuals, the land, the economy, technology and scientific progress, future generations, and/or the sustainability of the resources of a specific location or the planet as a whole.
• [2] **“Sense of Place” is a concept that describes the quality of people’s relationship with a place.  However, you will develop a definition of sense of place that most resonates with you.  Some questions you may consider include:  Does sense of place include a connection to the natural world separate from people? Does it include people? Does it include a local sense of place or global? Do you define your sense of place as one of economic positioning, social class, geographic location, and/or connection to community and people? Do you define it as very particular spot that holds special meaning to you? Does your connection to land shape your identity? Do you feel rootless or disconnected from community and/or place?

PAIR SHARE:  Talk to your neighbor about what our Energy and Place project Essential Questions might mean and what you think we will study in this project.





Work Time for NAS Project:
Sorry about the Google Form!  Please do it today!  Important so I can send a list to the library!
Plans for Wednesday:  Who is going?  Who can drive?

• Project 
• LINK to Google Folder with Resources and Rubrics

Honors Book Club Meeting this Wednesday:
You should be about 1/2 way through Cat's Cradle.  Come with questions and musings.



If you want to get a jump on the reading for this week, pick up a copy of "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold.  This will be due Thursday. 

Beloved Students:

Wish I could be there with you on this fine February Friday!  Alas, Luca is sick:(

Please give Janae your love and respect and work on the following today...

1. Keagan's Survey:  Take 2!

2. Project Work:  Native American Studies

Follow the process on the board.  Research!  Read lit!  Document your findings.  Analyze.  Synthesize.  Annotate.  Learn.  Create.  You guys are projecteers!!

At some point today, please fill out this Google Form.  Charles and Ellen, I realize you already did this yesterday.  I added two questions if you don't mind going back in to answer them.  You can rewrite your answers to the first two if you have made further progress.

3.  Transition Text:  Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech 

(Janae has hard copy!)

As you know, we will be starting the Energy and Place project on Monday.  Please read this short reading, annotate it, and be ready to work with its content on Monday.  Notice the relationship with the Earth that is reflected in his words, and think about how that contrasts with Western Civilization's relationship.

• For the curious:  Project Overview

4.  HONORS:  

I am SOOOOOO proud of you guys!  Exhibition last night was amazing!  I wish I were there to celebrate and appreciate you all individually.  Please update your DP with your Honors project and leave all pieces of it on my desk so that I can grade it.

Your DP update should include the usual:  a brief description, the project, imagery, and several paragraphs of reflection.

Here is a folder of images I captured last night.

For your reflection:  Reflect in a way that feels meaningful and appropriate for you.  Think about your take-aways, your enduring understandings, your realizations about your learning and research process, your difficulties and successes, and/or whatever else feels authentic.

• Send me a link to your DP when you finish.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND, EVERYBODY!!

Goal for the Day

• Make progress on your project

Starter:  A survey from Keagan Felker

WORK TIME
Follow the process!

Exit Ticket:  Google Form

Goals for the Day

• Process Mr. Naranjo's visit
• Focus your project

Starter 2.4:  Freewrite your reaction to yesterday's guest speaker.  

• Share Take-aways

Project Process
Step 1:  Research and brainstorm topic/text/central document
Step 2:  Preliminary Research
• Do some research to refine and narrow your topic.  See what is out there.  Make a plan.
Step 3:  Refine Topic and Establish Thesis (subject to change)
• Topic due Friday, February 6.  
• Working thesis due Tuesday, February 10.  (We will have a mini-tune on this day)
Step 4:  Focused Research/Close reading of texts
• During this phase, you should be researching in such a way as to accomplish your project goals. I am not going to mandate any particular format of note-taking and annotation, but you should be documenting your research! I am going to check your progress throughout.  Document in a way that feels authentic and useful to you.  Annotate?  Notes Page?  Post-its?  Comp Book?
• Your Works Cited should contain at least 5 sources (unless you are doing a lit analysis, in which case you may have fewer or more, depending on what you are analyzing).  Create your Works Cited page along the way!!!
Step 5:  Analytical Writing (in whatever genre you have chosen).
• Critique draft due Friday, February 13
Step 6.  Refinement/Critique

Step 7: Visual Display/Exhibition

Conference with me throughout as needed!!  

Center for Southwest Studies research
1. Search archives under Finding Aids
2. Quick Tutorial on searching the CSWS website for books.

• Go to FLC library Advanced Search
• Narrow your search, and select "Southwest Center" from the drop down menu that says "ANY"

History crew:  Preliminary research
1. Explore the CSWS website further?  Know what you need up there.
2. Explore the resources that are out there on your given topic.
3. Refine and narrow your topic and focus.
4. Field Trip plan?



Lit crew:  Read literature and do background research. 
1. Explore the poetry of Simon Ortiz and/or N. Scott Momaday.
2. Research the authors on the list.  Look in my anthologies.
3. Research background on the authors.  Check the Center for Southwest Studies library for books.
4. I have ordered some books of poetry that will arrive today.  Tomorrow you can spend reading and analyzing.

Honors:  Meeting today for logistics and troubleshooting.
1.  Research questions on table tents
2.  Documentation binders
3.  Artist Statements
4.  What else do you need for your project?

EXIT TICKET (post-it note):
1. Where are you in your process?  Which step?
2. Describe the work you did today.
3. What do you need to do tomorrow?

Goal for the Day

• Take it in, kids.

Starter 2.3:  What questions do we have for our guest speaker?  Write at least one question that you may want to ask.

Groups:  Question generation and review chapter 
What do we remember about the chapter from Bury My Heart that tells the story of the Ute?

In groups, work to review the events and details covered in the chapter.

Also, develop questions you may have for our guest speaker

Sign the Card!!


Welcome, guest speaker,  Alden Naranjo!

Time permitting?

Complete yesterday's exploration task!

Continue to research and refine your topic.

Goals for the Day

• Process our learning 
• Generate project ideas
• Explore primary sources that may be useful for our project

As promised:  Coyote Steals the Blanket

A Well-Traveled Coyote

BY NORA NARANJO-MORSE

John F. Kennedy

        New York City

            I saw him across the lobby

                 flight 161

                     St. Louis

                         Albuquerque.

Coyote looked in control

        cool

             fitting right into the city

                 smiling when a pretty woman passed him

                     figuring out his flight

                          making calculations from behind

                              the New York Times.

Slick

         right down to his Tony Lamas

             Coyote

                 I’d recognize him anywhere

                     Copenhagen

                          New York

                              Gallup.

People say

you can dress ’em up

        but once a coyote

             always a coyote.

Seminar:  

1.  Take-aways from Friday 

2.  Thoughts on Project Essential Questions

• 1. How do the historical experiences and ideologies of America’s indigenous tribes impact their contemporary identity?
• 2. How can an examination of multiple sources and perspectives lead to a more enlightened understanding of history AND contemporary social, cultural and political realities?
• 3. Where do history and creative expression intersect to reveal the human experience?

3. What project ideas do we have so far?  Brainstorm together.  Where can we take this?

Project Overview

LINK to Google Folder with Resources and Rubrics

Questions?

Research/Exploration Time

Spend some time exploring the resources that are out there.  Document the bold face blue and submit to me when you are finished.

1.  WHAT DO WE HAVE LOCALLY?  Explore Center for Southwest Studies website.  Find out what is there.  Browse the collections under "Finding Aids."  Browse the "Digital Images."   Make a bulleted list of project ideas that could possibly be born of the Delaney Library's archives.  How could the archives be useful for your project?

2.  LOOK AT IMAGES.  Explore the Edward Curtis collection of images documenting the indigenous peoples of North America.   Read about the work and explore the collections.  Browse the Denver Public Library Collection.  Click around.  What do you notice about these images?  How do they spark your ideas?

3.  EXPLORE OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE WEB.  Try keyword searches associated with your topic.  (It is helpful to add "primary sources" to your Google search.)  Can you find other sites that may be useful for our studies here?  Record what resources you found.  Send me links with a brief description.

Exit Ticket:  Fill out this Google Form.  

If need be, answer in writing:

1.  What project ideas are you having at this point?

2.  What questions or concerns do you have about this project at this point?

HOMEWORK:  

• Think about what you may want to research/analyze for your project!
• Think about questions you  may have for our guest speaker tomorrow.
• HONORS:  Refinement time!  (Meeting this week to prepare, troubleshoot)