Thursday, April 18th

PROJECT WORK TODAY....

Meal Planning (guidelines here)

By the end of the hour, you should submit to me the following information on a Google Doc

1. All group members' names
2. Date, time, location of your meal (to the degree that you have it figured out at this point)
3. A guest list and an explanation how they were/will be invited. (Hey, are your teachers invited?)
4. A full detailed menu with complete ingredient list and task delegration (who does what?)
5. An estimated budget for each piece of your menu, including a $ amount that you might request from us
6. An explanation of how your theme will be manifest at your meal

Submitting your Food Ethic Essay (due tomorrow!)

1. Double spaced, 11 or 12 point font

2. Give it a clever title! Centered, bold, 14 pt font

3. Name centered under title (normal font formatting)

Philosophy Project Submission (for All-School Exhibition)

We need to be ready to critique our work and get ready for an exhibition in a few short days upon your return from LINK! So, please help me facilitate this!
DUE at midnight Sunday May 12th
IF YOU WANT MY FEEDBACK ON YOUR WRITTEN PORTION, SUBMIT IT TO ME AT THE LASTEST BY SUNDAY, MAY 5TH!!!

What you need to turn in:

The written component, even if it is the script to your movie

1. Annotated for intertextuality (see Jessica’s example)
2. Submitted by email to Jessica!

The visual component

1. Video - a universal video file I can open
2. Image - jpeg
3. Artifact - if you created an original piece of work bring it in and send me a professionally taken photo of it 
4. Other - check in with me to make sure you have turned in a digital format for all school exhibition 
5. Email me your visual component, with your name in the file title

Monday, April 15th

FOOD ETHIC ESSAY:  Peer Critique Protocol
Groups of 3


WORK TIME

1. Conference with Me about Philosophy Project AND/OR Food Ethic Essay
2. Revise Essay
3. Meet with your group for Meal Planning?
4. HONORS:  Essay due before LINK!  (Did you turn in Cat's Cradle reflection?)

Thursday, April 11th

Journal 4.11 Field Trip Reflection: 
What were your main takeaways from yesterday's field trip?  What new understandings and/or questions do you have?  Did you pick up anything valuable that relates to your food ethic or your chemistry knowledge?

TO-DO!

1. Finish Journal 4.11 AND JOURNAL 4.8 (SEE Monday's post)

2. Initial Planning Meeting for your group's meal

3.Personal Essay: Your Food Ethic (Draft due for CRITIQUE next Monday, April 15th)

• Re-read your journal and/or brainstorm your essay’s content in any way that works for you.  Begin drafting.

4.CONFERENCE with me about your philosophy project ideas and progress.

MY BOOKS!

Turn in The Omnivore’s Dilemma if you are done with it!

Do you have Into the Wild or any other of my books?  Please turn it in ASAP!

Monday, April 8th

Starter 4.8:  Sure, the local sustainable (and/or Do-it-Yourself) food chain(s) sound wonderful.  But what problems arise when we think about feeding 7-9 billion humans this century?  What solutions or approaches might we consider in the bigger picture of the global food crisis?

Video: Feeding Nine Billion

React/Discuss:  How does this information impact your emerging food ethic?

TO-DO!

1. JOURNAL 4.8 (upon completing Part 4 of The Omnivore’s Dilemma):  REACT TO SECTION 4 of POLLAN’s FOOD ADVENTURES and REFLECT ON THE DIY FOOD CHAIN.  What role might hunting and/or foraging play in your own food ethic?  What about for the human community? What makes this particular ethical approach special?  Why might it be a part of someone’s ethic? What makes it challenging in today’s world?

2. FIELD TRIP PREP:

Come up with a short list of questions you might have for the folks giving us tours on Wednesday.

3. Personal Essay: Your Food Ethic (Draft due for CRITIQUE next Monday, April 15th)

• Re-read your journal and/or brainstorm your essay’s content in any way that works for you.  Begin drafting.

4. CONFERENCE with me about your philosophy project ideas and progress.

MY BOOKS!

Turn in The Omnivore’s Dilemma if you are done with it!

Do you have Into the Wild or any other of my books?  Please turn it in ASAP!

Friday, April 5th

WORK TIME:
Finish yesterday's Written Response and turn it in by the end of today.
Finish Part 4 of the book by Monday
Begin drafting your Food Ethic essay
Work on Philosophy Project (Conference with ME?)

Thursday, April 4th

Written Response: “Local Sustainable”

Synthesize Fresh and Part 3 of The Omnivore's Dilemma

If you finish early, read Part 4 of the book and/or brainstorm your Food Ethic essay!

Wednesday, April 3rd

Written Response: Local Sustainable

Film: Fresh

Take notes in such a way that it sets you up to do the response writing!

Tuesday, April 2

Starter 4.2: How have you engaged with food for the last two weeks?  How has your thinking changed since you have been studying this topic in both classes?  Do you find yourself contemplating your food differently?

UPCOMING!

Food Ethic Essay Assignment

Meal Planning Guidelines

Field Trip next Wednesday!

Please take this survey to express interest in where you would like to go.

Drop back in to The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Check out this interesting piece from the Rational Optimist about the misguided superiority complex of industrial organic (Thanks, Simon!)

Reading Time, Part 3 due tomorrow (or Thursday, but this is the only class time you will have to read)

HONORS: Let's meet up and chat about what is left!