Assign:  Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill Town Hall Debate Prep (due Friday)


Get Inspiration Journal by next Monday


Please TURN IN your answer to #9 from the Land Ethic Discussion Questions!
(9. How would you characterize your own environmental ethic and how did you come to hold these beliefs? In other words, what childhood experiences or works of literature inspired these beliefs?  Think about whether or not your ethic comes from self-interest or from a true interest in non-human elements.  Or does it come from an interest in sustainability (using enough of the land for what we need while preserving as much as possible for future generations) or justice (ensuring that all people have access to clean environments).)

Environmental Ethics Quiz
Extra Credit (3 points: attach a sheet of paper):  How would Also Leopold respond to the ideas presented by Patrick Cummins in yesterday's talk?  For full credit, you will need to make specific references to ideas from both Leopold and Patrick!


When you finish the quiz, you may begin to work on PR Uranium Mill assignment and/or read through Inspiration Journal assignment.  There is nothing specific due tomorrow!

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
• Gain some perspective and wisdom from our guest speaker!

2nd Period

Starter 4.7:  Listen to this segment of the TED Radio Hour episode, "Everything is Connected."  What is your reaction to the ideas of this podcast?  Can you connect this to the concept of the Gaia hypothesis?  What might be the implications in terms of "The Land Ethic"?

Whole Class Discussion:  "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold

TURN IN: Three discussion questions answered in writing

Discussion Questions

Exit Ticket to Break:  Answer question #9 in writing.  Send it to me by email.  Put "Land Ethic #9" in the subject line.


Third Period

Guest Speaker: Patrick Cummins from Western Climate Initiative


HONORS:  Turn in The Monkey Wrench Gang.  Sign out a copy of The Omnivore's Dilemma.  Study Guide can be found on the Honors tab of my DP.

HOMEWORK:  Study for Quiz tomorrow!  
Get Inspiration Journal by next Monday!!!

1st period 

HONORS:  With me to Stephen's room for MWG seminar!

1. Starter 4.4:
Watch and react to Leyla Acaroglu's TED talk.   How does her talk relate to environmental ethics?  
How do her ideas make you think more deeply about our current content? 

2.  Read and annotate Aldo Leopold's "The Land Ethic."  Here is a helpful resource for understanding it better.

3.  Review Vocab and Discussion Q's.  Answer 3 of them by Monday.

2nd period

1. Finish yesterday's Environmental Ethics lesson

2. Take India Waller's Senior Project Survey

3. Turn in your narrative reflection if you haven't already done so!

4.  Scholarship Opportunity for all Juniors!  For more information, there will be a lunch next week where details will be clarified, date and time TBA.


HOMEWORK:
Read and annotate "The Land Ethic" and answer 3 discussion questions of your choice.

Quiz Tuesday on "The Land Ethic" and Environmental Ethics

HONORS:  Seminar Reflection (due Monday) and Choice Project (due Tuesday)!

Starter 4.3:  Freewrite a reaction to yesterday's Supreme Court decision.

Powerpoint:  Introduction to Environmental Ethics, Part 1

Check for Understanding

•Come up with a scenario involving an environmental issue and decide the most ethical way of solving it from a consequences, virtue and duty perspective. 

•Examples: recycling, energy/natural resource consumption (electricity, gasoline, water etc..), animal testing, etc…

Introduction to homework reading: "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold, vocab overview + discussion questions

Homework:
Read and annotate "The Land Ethic" by Friday, familiarize yourself with discussion questions
QUIZ Heads Up! (/Monday/Tuesday of  next week)

Goals for today:

• Critically discuss the arguments outlined in "Bakken Business" and determine if you think drilling in the Bakken is progress.

• Begin to understand the field of environmental ethics

***Get out your "Bakken Business" readings for me to check annotations***



AGENDA

1.In your groups, do one more Station from yesterday's activity.

While still in your groups, discuss the questions on the first page of this handout.

2. Whole class Discussion of homework assignment "Bakken Business": 


3. EXIT TICKET TO BREAK:
Answer the BIG QUESTION: Is the oil extraction in the Bakken progress?  What is your emerging opinion on fracking?  Is this an energy option that the US should continue to use?

4. Show of hands:  Who wants to take notes on paper?  Otherwise, download the Environmental Ethics Lecture Notes Form

5. Read the first page of the notes form and follow the directions to Starter 4.2.  (Complete starter 4.2 on your Energy and Place Starters Google Doc!)


For further reading....
IMPORTANT DETAILS ABOUT BURNING NATURAL GAS (as mentioned in "Bakken Business")
NEW TOWN, N.D. — Across western North Dakota, hundreds of fires rise above fields of wheat and sunflowers and bales of hay. At night, they illuminate the prairie skies like giant fireflies.
They are not wildfires caused by lightning strikes or other acts of nature, but the deliberate burning of natural gas by oil companies rushing to extract oil from the Bakken shale field and take advantage of the high price of crude. The gas bubbles up alongside the far more valuable oil, and with less economic incentive to capture it, the drillers treat the gas as waste and simply burn it.

Every day, more than 100 million cubic feet of natural gas is flared this way — enough energy to heat half a million homes for a day.

The flared gas also spews at least two million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, as much as 384,000 cars or a medium-size coal-fired power plant would emit, alarming some environmentalists.

All told, 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste. No other major domestic oil field currently flares close to that much, though the practice is still common in countries like Russia, Nigeria and Iran.

"This is the most beautiful place on earth.  There are many such places.  Every man, every woman, carriers in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.  A house-boat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near Hoboken waterfront, or even possibly for those of less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome- there's no limit to the human capacity for homing sentiment" -- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, pages 1-2. 

Starter 4.1 (on google doc!):  Free write about a place that you find beautiful or that holds significant meaning to you. Think about why you find it beautiful or why it is important to you.  Try to describe the beauty of the place.

Goal for Today
Understand the basic elements of our last project, "Energy and Place"

Project Overview:  Q&A

Stations Activity (in groups)

Introducing Ashley Carruth, everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ashley’s read-aloud of her example personal sense of place essay. 

• As you listen, mark a line that seems to reveal her environmental ethic. 
• Mark a line that reflects her perception of energy production. 
• Mark a line that seems to capture her connection to place. 

Critique: Does her essay meet the project task description? How so?

Homework:
Finish reading and annotating "Bakken Business" for tomorrow

Welcome back!! We sure did miss you guys!

Goals for today
1. Ease back into life at school:)
2. Wrap up Narrative History project
3. Preview Energy and Place project

HOW WAS LINK?  Share with your neighbor the most interesting or incredible story or lesson from your LINK experience.   

Honors Announcements

• Wednesday lunch check-in meeting
• Click here to review Book Club requirements!
• Project proposal due Wednesday.
• Seminar on The Monkey Wrench Gang on Friday!  Prep due at the beginning of the seminar!
• Choice Project and Seminar Reflection:  Due Monday

Narrative Project Wrap

Resend your narrative project TODAY with self-assessment and cover letter!

1. Read your story and self-assess with rubric.  For each category, explain why you deserve the grade you are giving yourself.  (due today)

2. Revisit your Reflection.  Finish it up and submit it by Wednesday.

Set up new starter system: 

·        1.  Start a google doc:  Call it FirstName LastName Energy and Place Starters

·         2. Share with jessicaahs11@gmail.com

·         3. Label starters by date

Let's start now!!

Starter 3.31:  What do you think is meant by the phrase “environmental ethics”?  Where do you personally stand on issues of environmentalism?

Four Corners:  Energy and Environment

Project Overview

Homework:

Read project description in detail.  Jot down any questions you may have.

Read and annotate "Bakken Business" for Wednesday.