Learning target:
We're going to return to the two articles on the river spill that you read on Tuesday for the starter today. There's two reasons I asked you to read these articles. First, it has a lot of good, basic information about the river and the spill. Second, I want you to practice looking deeper at how the language in the article shapes our understanding of the issue.
I will ask you to use this worksheet to breakdown the article for your starter. This might be challenging, and I welcome questions that start with, "Marcus, what do you mean by...." We're going to get great at this kind of analysis over the next week. My goal is for you to really think critically about political discourse. Those of you who did the rhetoric project with Jessica will likely recognize what we're doing. But our analysis will specifically connect rhetoric to political strategy.
We'll debrief the starter once you're done. Then I'll break you down into groups: economics, politics, legal, socio-cultural. Your task before Monday will be to read an article about the spill related to your assigned group's perspective. Analyze your article with the same worksheet you used for the starter. Bring the worksheet on Monday. Your group is going to put the information you discover into a story about the problem that you'll share with the class. We'll discuss these four different stories and what they solutions they suggest we should pursue for the river.
After break, Steve will take over and answer your questions about the chemistry of the spill and the river more generally. I've prepared this handout with some suggested questions and a place on the back to put together the "scientific story" on the river. I want to invite another scientist to our class later on to understand the issues on the Lower Animas, so save this handout. We'll use it later on.
I will return toward the end of class, to run our weekly feedback session. I have some questions about how to facilitate reflection in the class and want to present this handout on grades.
Homework due Monday, September 29th
Finish reading your article for your small group assignment and fill out the worksheet
- We can identify different ways writers can influence our understanding of an issue
- We can tell a scientific story about the Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill
We're going to return to the two articles on the river spill that you read on Tuesday for the starter today. There's two reasons I asked you to read these articles. First, it has a lot of good, basic information about the river and the spill. Second, I want you to practice looking deeper at how the language in the article shapes our understanding of the issue.
I will ask you to use this worksheet to breakdown the article for your starter. This might be challenging, and I welcome questions that start with, "Marcus, what do you mean by...." We're going to get great at this kind of analysis over the next week. My goal is for you to really think critically about political discourse. Those of you who did the rhetoric project with Jessica will likely recognize what we're doing. But our analysis will specifically connect rhetoric to political strategy.
We'll debrief the starter once you're done. Then I'll break you down into groups: economics, politics, legal, socio-cultural. Your task before Monday will be to read an article about the spill related to your assigned group's perspective. Analyze your article with the same worksheet you used for the starter. Bring the worksheet on Monday. Your group is going to put the information you discover into a story about the problem that you'll share with the class. We'll discuss these four different stories and what they solutions they suggest we should pursue for the river.
After break, Steve will take over and answer your questions about the chemistry of the spill and the river more generally. I've prepared this handout with some suggested questions and a place on the back to put together the "scientific story" on the river. I want to invite another scientist to our class later on to understand the issues on the Lower Animas, so save this handout. We'll use it later on.
I will return toward the end of class, to run our weekly feedback session. I have some questions about how to facilitate reflection in the class and want to present this handout on grades.
Homework due Monday, September 29th
Finish reading your article for your small group assignment and fill out the worksheet