Pep Talk from Kid President to get us amped about this week of making history!  LET’S MAKE AWESOMENESS!!!

Starter 9.8          

• To which of our driving questions do you have the most answers? Which do you expect to be able to find answers to in Chemistry? On which do you want to focus your research in Humanities the most?
• Which question can you see yourself trying to answer in your in-class essay?  If you had to develop a claim (thesis statement) today, what might it be?

Business
1. Honors application essays due next Monday, September 14. Let me know if I can print out any sources for you.
2. Permission Slips!!!  Please bring these back tomorrow!
3. Important Dates

Seminar:  Thursday, September 17

In-class Writing:  Tuesday, September 22

Storycorps Interview produced and published:  Tuesday, September 22

·         4.  Please take this survey if you have not done so! (Kyle, Garrett, Evan, Maxwell, Sophia (unless you are Sopapilla?), Brynn, Eno, Izzy, Eli Crispin, Gabe, Berrigan, Calvin, Alessandro, Piper)

Agenda

1. Storycorps Interview Task Statement and Guidelines

2. Interview Scheduling Logistics

• How do we ask for interviews?  Email and phone etiquette!
• Those of you on the Silverton list, try to make contact with some of the people on Steve’s list today.  Please note the times on the board that your group is scheduled for interviewing.  If your interview subject needs to make it a different time, we can work with that by switching up your groups a bit.
• If you don’t have a contact at all, brainstorm who you might reach out to.  Make calls, send emails, decide who you want to interview.  Think about people that may have been mentioned in different sources?
• If you are not scheduled to interview in Silverton on Thursday, you may be tasked with going around and asking people about their perspectives.  What should be we asking on the street?
• When you have your interview, let Jessica know!

3. Brainstorm interview questions for your interview. Try to be as specific to your desired interview as possible.  If possible, get with a group that has similar stakeholders and Even if you don’t know your exact interviewee, come up with questions designed for your intended audience.  Additionally, brainstorm questions that we might ask the folks on the street in Silverton.

4.  Read:  Eulogy to the Animas River.  Annotate it for a spirit read tomorrow!

5. Continue with your independent research.  Look at today’s starter and follow your own interests down the rabbit hole.  Continue to take notes and build up your evidence for seminar and essay.  At this point, it might be advisable to begin to develop your thesis statement and do some research to support it. 

• Here is another interesting (and biased!) article that attempts to put the river situation in context.
• Please share any great resources in the Google classroom stream.

HERE IS A LINK TO THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION IF YOU WANT TO SHARE IT WITH POTENTIAL INTERVIEWEES.

Homework:

• Finish “Eulogy” if you did not do so in class.
• Brainstorm interview questions if you did not finish in class
• GET PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED!!
• Optional:  more research!  More Storycorps!  Make interview contact!