Starter:  Pair share yesterday's journal entry.  After reading your partner's entry, try to identify how they are characterizing their relationship with place.  Have a brief discussion about your project ideas thus far.


Goals for Today

• Understand the four elements of nature writing
• Define (and practice!) the "Grand Style" of rhetoric
• Critique Edward Abbey's personal place essays for the elements of Nature Writing

1. Nature Writing Lesson and Examples

2.  INSPIRATION JOURNAL:
Call this entry "The Grand Style"
Write a passage to describe your place (or any place) using the Grand Style.
"Strike the Senses!"  Sensory Images!!  Figurative Language!! Rich Details!!

3. Assignment for today and tomorrow:
Edward Abbey's Personal Non-Fiction Essays
Here is an optional template for organizing your notes for parts 2 and 3.
My advice is to try to get done with the readings and Part 1 (annotation) today and tonight to buy yourself time to start drafting your essay tomorrow after doing Parts 2 and 3 with a partner.  Does this mean you might have HOMEWORK?  Your choice.  Assignment due at the end of the hour tomorrow.


WORK TIME for Friday

• Finish Abbey assignment, partner discussion
• Writing:  Start drafting your essay, catch up on journal
• Read essays and examples of nature writing and other genres of place (photography, short film, etc.) to get inspired

Starter:  Why stay in Chernobyl?  Because it's home.


Goals for today:  

• Familiarize yourself with some frameworks of "sense of place" as characterized by relationships to place and community attachments. 
• Continue to define sense of place for yourself.
• Generate ideas and creative thoughts!
• Learn about the nation’s largest and oldest river conservation organization, Trout Unlimited,  through the presentation of Ty Churchwell. 

"A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” —Rebecca Solnit

1. Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments

2. Sense of Place Essays from Orion Magazine

TOGETHER:  Read "Traverse City, MI" 

• PAIR SHARE:  Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here?  What sort of relationship to the place does the author have?  How would you characterize is his community attachment?  

READ AT LEAST 3 MORE (PERHAPS YOU ALREADY DID SO?) yourself, asking the same questions of each. Note your connections and observations in your journal.  For each, quote the text where you see these elements.  (Label the entry "Orion Essays" and indicate which essay you read.)

• Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here?  
• What sort of relationship to the place does the author have?  
• How would you characterize his/her community attachment?  
• Does the author reveal his/her environmental ethic?  

Suggested reads:

Sioux Falls, SD

The Backcountry

Chunky, Missippissippi

The Bluffs: Pacific Palisades, CA

Oakland, CA

INSPIRATION JOURNAL:   Expand on yesterday's entry in an attempt to characterize further your relationship with that place and/or your community attachment.   Use rich details!

3rd period
Guest Speaker, Ty Churchwell from Trout Unlimmited

•http://www.tu.org/

•TU is America’s oldest and largest river conservation non-profit organization:  54 years as an org and 150,000 members across the country

•Ty is on the staff with our public land division, the ‘Sportsmen’s Conservation Project’ (SCP)

•SCP is headquartered in Durango with staff of 30 in all eleven western states

•He represents hunters/anglers in discussions of our public lands and riversrs

2nd period

BONANZA LESSON!  Welcome, Craig!

3rd period

Goals for today

• See how others establish their sense of place.
• Continue to define sense of place for yourself.
• Generate ideas and creative thoughts!

Sense of Place Essays from Orion Magazine

READ AT LEAST 3 OF THE ESSAYS ON orionmagazine.org.  Think about how the authors establishes sense of place in ways that are personal and authentic.  Each has his or her own style and distinct connection to place.  

Suggested reads:

Sioux Falls, SD

The Backcountry

Chunky, Missippissippi

The Bluffs: Pacific Palisades, CA

Oakland, CA

INSPIRATION JOURNAL:  Name the journal entry after a place, such as in the titles of the Orion essays.  Write about that place with details that attempt establish your connection to that place.  

2nd period
Learning Goal:  
Evaluate the various issues (economic, social, environmental) at stake in making decisions about energy development as applied to Naturita, Colorado and the Pinon Ridge Mill. 

1. 15 minutes with groups to prepare for Pinon Ridge Town Hall Debate!

2. 45 minutes:  Town Hall Debate and Vote


3rd period
Goals for today:

• Understand upcoming creative writing assignments and get questions answered
• Define SENSE OF PLACE 
• Begin to generate ideas for your sense of place essay

UPCOMING CREATIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
1.  Inspiration Journal Assignment
BRING JOURNAL STARTING TOMORROW!
2.  Sense of Place Essay
BEGIN THINKING ABOUT WHICH PLACE YOU MAY WANT TO CENTER YOUR PROJECT ON!

Defining Sense of Place

Freewrite:  Where is your place?  Describe it in detail.  Let your ideas flow....

No starter!

Finish Powerpoint.

Response Writing:  Call it "4.11" on your Energy and Place Starter Google Doc:  Answer one of the "Food for Thought" questions on the last slide of the PPT in writing.

Town Hall Debate Meeting prep with groups.

NO Homework if your group is ready for the debate!

Starter 4.10:  Watch "Cancer Alley" and "Uranium Drive-in" and discuss how these videos relate to the concept of environmental justice.

Lecture:  Innovation and Mutation:  Adapting to a Changing Ecology


HOMEWORK:  
Town Hall Debate prep!  (due tomorrow)
Get Inspiration Journal! (bring Monday)

Goals for the Day:

●     Understand the difference between two types of environmental ethics: Environmental Justice and Sustainability and consider if either of these are elements you would incorporate into your personal ethics.

●     Know what “NIMBY” means

●     Evaluate the tension between environmental preservation and environmental justice.  Can we protect pristine wilderness areas AND make sure low-income communities are safe from environmental injustices/health hazards? 

1. Starter 4.9:  Watch this video on the concept of NIMBY-ism.  What is your reaction?  How did this video expand your thinking on the intersection between energy production and one's sense of place?

2. Review definitions for "environmental justice" and "sustainability"
3. Follow the directions for the activities

Case Studies in Environmental Justice and Sustainability
(You need to make this up if you are absent today!)
4. Submit by email a document with all three activities completed.  Put "Justice and Sustainability" in the subject line.
Add to document:  4. Synthesize your thoughts after your partner discussion.  Discuss your thoughts on at least 2 of the questions.  

HOMEWORK:  
1. Finish Case Studies and submit by tomorrow.  If you didn't have time for a partner discussion, try to find another 11th grader to talk to before tomorrow about the readings/questions.  If you can't do so, answer 2 of the questions in part for in writing to the best of your ability.
2. Town Hall Debate prep for Friday!
FOR FRIDAY'S HOMEWORK:  
***CHANGE THE 3rd LINK to THIS ONE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/fukushima-cancer-rates-risks_n_2779729.html (This article discusses the cancer risks after the Fukishima nuclear power plant explosion)
***Use this source to figure out how health risks will be controlled:
http://pinonridgemill.com/operations.html