Welcome to Walden Week! We'll enjoy excerpts from the highly influential and still-relevant book by Henry David Thoreau. We will also go over outlines in response to the space exploration prompt. I'm excited to go through this new Nature/Environment mini-unit with you.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Go over space exploration outlines and sources. View outline samples from the class. Discuss how to formulate a synthesis essay. Read actual student essay responses to the prompt and evaluate them. Intro to Henry David Thoreau and Walden. Listen to Walden and enjoy an in-class extra credit opportunity.
Due: Read the sources and create an outline response to the Space Exploration synthesis prompt.
Homework: Finish reading Walden excerpt. Study vocabulary.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Take quiz covering Walden reading and vocabulary. Discuss Walden. Go over Sustainable Foods: The Future of Meat synthesis prompt. (For more complexity, students may select Option 2, Sustainable Foods as National Policy essay prompt instead.)
Due: Finish reading Walden excerpt.
Homework: Carefully read, annotate, and perform a SOAPS analysis for the rest of Source 2 and Source 3 from the Sustainable Foods essay prompt packet for Monday (Option 1). (For those that chose the more complex prompt, Option 2, please read, annotate and SOAPS Sources D and E and read and annotate the other articles except Source G by Specter and Source A.) We'll discuss these articles and two more sources, and you'll be writing a full synthesis essay on the topic.
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