Final Presentations

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom. Please abide by this today during final presentations. 

*FINAL PRESENTATIONS -- Volunteer to present for extra credit!  Today we will move swiftly because this might take us to the very end of the period.

Dear Future Generations

Climate Change 

Final Presentations

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom. Please abide by this rule for the remaining days of school.

*FINAL PRESENTATIONS -- Volunteer to present for extra credit!  Listen to your classmates present and think of questions to ask.  This helps the presenter speak with more knowledge on their topic.  However, we will move swiftly because this is taking more time than anticipated.

Climate Change 

Final Presentations

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom. Please abide by this rule for the remaining days of school.

*FINAL PRESENTATIONS -- Volunteer to present for extra credit!  Listen to your classmates present and think of questions to ask.  This helps the presenter speak with more knowledge on their topic.

Climate Change 

Final Presentations

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom. Please abide by this rule for the remaining days of school.

*Ten summaries of ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES due today.  They will be collected at the start of class.

*FINAL PRESENTATIONS -- Volunteer to present for extra credit!  Listen to your classmates present and think of questions to ask.  This helps the presenter speak with more knowledge on their topic.

Final Presentations

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom. Please abide by this rule for the remaining days of school.

*FINAL PRESENTATIONS begin today -- Volunteer to present for extra credit!  

HOMEWORK:  Summaries on ten environmental topics are due tomorrow.

Textbook Return

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  

*NOTE: BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due today by midnight tonight. 

*NOTE: Textbook return today. 

*Environmental Issues --  We will begin final presentations tomorrow on your selected environmental topic.  We will begin with volunteers for extra credit.  If there are no volunteers, then I will start at the top of the class roster.

* Due Wednesday -- Ten completed assignments on environmental topics.

Homework:  Final presentation on environmental issue

Environmental Issues

Good Morning!
Please get your ASSIGNED netbook when you arrive.

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  

*NOTE: BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due Monday, June 8th.  

*NOTE: Textbook return on June 8th.  Start bringing your texts to school.

*Environmental Issues -- today you will continue researching topics and completing the assignments on the selected topics.  One of your topics will be shared with the class in a Powerpoint presentation which you will share with me or another format that includes visuals.  Name the Powerpoint Presentation as follows:  Period __ Environmental Issue and share with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

HOMEWORK:  Book review is due Monday, June 8th.  I am ready to start receiving them.  Final presentations begin on Tuesday.  I will collect your 10 fully completed summaries on environmental issues on Wednesday, June 10th.

Environmental Issue

Good Morning!
Please get your ASSIGNED netbook when you arrive.

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  

*NOTE: BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.  

*NOTE: Textbook return on June 8th.  Start bringing your texts to school.

*Environmental Issues -- today you will continue researching topics and completing the assignments on the selected topics.  One of your topics will be shared with the class in a Powerpoint presentation which you will share with me.  Name the Powerpoint Presentation as follows:  Period __ Environmental Issue and share with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

HOMEWORK:  Book review is due Monday, June 8th.  I am ready to start receiving them.

Environmental Issues

Good Morning!
Please get your ASSIGNED netbook when you arrive.

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  

*NOTE: BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.  

*NOTE: Textbook return on June 8th.  Start bringing your texts to school.

*Environmental Issues -- today you will continue researching topics and completing the assignments on the selected topics.  One of your topics will be shared with the class in a Powerpoint presentation which you will share with me.  Name the Powerpoint Presentation as follows:  Period __ Environmental Issue

HOMEWORK:  Book review is due Monday, June 8th.  I am ready to start receiving them.

Environmental Issue

Good Morning!
Please get your ASSIGNED netbook when you arrive.

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.  

*NOTE: Textbook return on June 8th.

*"Island Civilization . . ." -- I will collect your completed questions today.

*Environmental Issues -- today you will continue researching topics and completing the assignments on the selected topics.  One of your topics will be shared with the class in a Powerpoint presentation which you will share with me.  Name the Powerpoint Presentation as follows:  Period __ Environmental Issue

HOMEWORK:  Book review is due Monday, June 8th.  I am ready to start receiving them.

Island Civilization

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.  

*NOTE: Textbook return on June 8th.

*"Island Civilization . . ."  -- You have read and responded to this article up through paragraph #20.  We will resume reading at paragraph #20.  Once we are done with this article, we will continue researching 10 environmental issues through the rest of the week.  Your final will be a presentation on one of the issues. We will begin presentations on Tuesday, June 9th.

Climate Change 

HOMEWORK:  Book Reviews are due June 8th.

Island Civilization

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th. 

*"Island Civilization . . ."  -- we will continue reading this article and responding to the questions.  For today, however, you will read each paragraph in groups of three and respond to the questions.  Quietly read the paragraph and then discuss the question with the two other students in your group.  Begin with paragraph 14 and read to paragraph #20.

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading with an eye toward writing a book review which is due June 8th

Island Civilization

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.

*"Island Civilization . . ."  -- we will continue reading this article and responding to the questions.  
Planet Earth

HOMEWORK:  Book Review is due June 8th.

Island Civilization

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  BOOK REVIEW on Goodreads is due June 8th.

*"Island Civilization . . ."  -- we will continue reading this article and responding to the questions.  

HOMEWORK:  Book Review is due June 8th.

Environmental Issue

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  

*TODAY -- Quietly work on an environmental issue article to read and summarize.  All ten articles are due on June 10th.
A Wonderful World

 HOMEWORK:  Independent reading.  Be mindful of submitting a final book review.  Due date: Monday, June 8th.

Safe Driving

Good Morning!

*NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  

*TODAY -- Presentation on Safe Driving

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading -- keep an eye on writing a book review for this final grading period. 

Environmental Issue

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  

*Tomorrow there will be a presentation on SAFE DRIVING. It will take the whole period.

*Today you will work on researching an environmental issue.  Remember, the ten article summaries and responses are not due until the end of the grading period.  I will be supplying to you the forms as we go along.  

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading and environmental research topic.

Environmental Visions

Good Morning!
Please get ONLY your assigned netbook when you arrive.

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.  ESPECIALLY, have your book during testing so you have it to read if you finish the test early.

*TODAY:  Today you will begin locating an article on an environmental issue.  You already have recorded information in your English Journal on an article.  Today, I am giving you an assignment that will take us to the end of the year.  We begin today. (HANDOUT).  At the end of the semester, you will be turning in all ten article summaries and responses.  I will be giving you sheets as we go along. It would be a good idea to create a NEW document in your Google docs for recording URL's of an article that you want to come back to and for other notes that you might want to take.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading.  Bring your book to class!

Practice Test

Good Morning!
Please get ONLY your assigned netbook when you arrive.

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester. 

*PRACTICE TEST for Smarter Balance Test Thursday and Friday of this week.  I will be passing out to you your passcode in order for you to log-on.  It is important for me to collect this passcode from you after you log-on.  Please listen for instructions today.  I will be giving you a code to enter.

HOMEWORK: Independent reading book.  Please bring to class each day.  

Island Civilization

Good Morning!
I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

Please get ONLY your assigned netbook when you arrive.

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.

*ENGLISH JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT: On Friday you completed Activity #2 and #3 and you defined 15 vocabulary words for the reading of "Island Civilization: A Vision or Human Occupancy of Earth in the Fourth Millennium."  TODAY, respond to Activity #4, "Making Predictions and Asking Questions."   THEN, add the following words to the words you defined on Friday:  (copy into your English Journal)


Activity #4:

* “The new third millennium we are entering affords an excellent opportunity to think big about the history and future of wilderness and civilization on planet Earth.”

* “opportunity to transcend our species’ characteristic myopia.”

* ”So my mission here is to review the history of human-nature relations and to extend our concern to the big picture.  What could the human tenure on Earth be like a thousand years from now – at the start of the Fourth Millennium?  My proposal involves some really major changes and will be controversial.”

16.  untempered
17.  primeval
18.  frontier
19.  scarcity theory
20.  angst
21.  anthropocentric
22.  utilitarian
23.  biocentric rationale
24.  intrinsic
25.  manifested
26.  reverence
27.  dominion
28. theological holism
29.  articulator
30.  land ethic

NOTE:  Tomorrow we will be taking a practice test for the Smarter Balance Test on Thursday and Friday of this week.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Environmental Visions

Good Morning!

Please get ONLY your assigned netbook when you arrive.

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester.

*ENGLISH JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT:  Island Civilization
Respond to the following statement:  "'Wilderness' and 'civilization' can coexist in harmony."  Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement -- or why you are unsure about your response.  (This is Activity #2 on the handout that you received yesterday.  In your English Journal label it as follows:)

Island Civilization

Activity #2: "'Wilderness and 'civilization' can coexist in harmony.

Activity #3: Surveying the Text -- Respond to the questions in your English Journal.  Write complete sentences.

THEN, in your English Journal) define the following terms:

1. millennium            
2. wilderness
3. civilization
4. transcend
5. myopia
6. legacy
7. tenure
8. advent
9. unencumbered
10. pastoral
11. mandate
12. antipode
13. intellectual baggage
14. bias
15. irony

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Environmental Visions

Good Morning!

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day. I am expecting to see it with you, and I will be asking you.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester. 

*As a further introduction to our next unit of study, Environmental Visions, today we are watching a TED talk on the environmental issue of climate.  Record a minimum of ten important points from this talk.
The State of the Climate

*HOMEWORK: INDEPENDENT READING BOOK

Environmental Visions

Good Morning!

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester. 

*ENVIRONMENTAL VISIONS:  An introduction -- Our heritage of how we have viewed nature:  "Song of the Sky Loom" (Handout)

*We need to log-on to our netbooks this week.  As we begin our last unit of study which is ENVIRONMENTAL VISIONS, we are considering a range of relevant topics.  Today your assignment on your netbook is to locate an article on an environmental issue, and then briefly summarize the article in your English Journal. This is due by the end of the period. 

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book

Environmental Visions

Good Morning!

 *NOTE: Cell phones are to be put entirely away when you enter this classroom until you leave this classroom.  At no time should they be out once you are present in THIS class.  This includes plugging them into an electrical outlet.

*NOTE: Please bring your independent reading book each day.  Be sure to select from the recommended list if you have not done so yet this semester. 

*ENVIRONMENTAL VISIONS:  An introduction -- Our heritage of how we have viewed nature:  "Song of the Sky Loom" (Handout)

The State of the Climate

*We need to log-on to our netbooks this week.  As we begin our last unit of study which is ENVIRONMENTAL VISIONS, we are considering a range of relevant topics.  Today your assignment on your netbook is to locate an article on an environmental issue, and then briefly summarize the article in your English Journal.  

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book