MONDAY, 4/17
Easter Break!
TUESDAY, 4/18
Bell Work
Class
WEDNESDAY, 4/19
Bell Work
Class
THURSDAY, 4/20
Bell Work
Class
FRIDAY, 4/21
Bell Work
Class
Easter Break!
- One last day off!
TUESDAY, 4/18
Bell Work
- Meditative Moment
- 5 minutes of mindfulness
Class
- Water Wars
- Introduce next topic: Risk of Water Scarcity Increasing for 1,100 US Counties
- National Geographic: Why Care About Water
- Begin reading "Cadillac Desert"
- Guided Reading: Construct a KWL Chart
- Brainstorm what you know about the following topics:
- water scarcity
- water manipulation
- water exploitation
- water conflict
- water scarcity
- Determine questions you have over the topic(s)
- Share-out questions
- As we read, bullet point new information that you've learned
- Brainstorm what you know about the following topics:
- National Geographic: Why Care About Water
- Introduce next topic: Risk of Water Scarcity Increasing for 1,100 US Counties
WEDNESDAY, 4/19
Bell Work
- Meditative Moment
- 5 minutes of mindfulness
Class
- Water Wars
- Finish reading "Cadillac Desert"
- Review significant quotes from the reading:
- Alarming Facts/Interesting Details
- "... a place that receives seven inches or less-- as Phoenix, El Paso, and Reno do-- is arguably no place to inhabit at all." (we are inhabiting places that people aren't meant to live)
- "Trees... are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants." (Trees are our natural equivalent)
- Alarming Facts/Interesting Details
- Respond to questions that have been answered by the text.
- Review significant quotes from the reading:
- Finish reading "Cadillac Desert"
THURSDAY, 4/20
Bell Work
- Meditative Moment
- 5 minutes of mindfulness
Class
- Water Wars
- "Cadillac Desert" Review:
- What national concerns does Reisner expose in the Introduction of "Cadillac Desert?"
- Inhabiting the uninhabitable
- Sustaining the unsustainable
- Effects "water projects" such as dams, reservoirs and irrigation have on our natural surroundings
- Our depleting water sources
- What national concerns does Reisner expose in the Introduction of "Cadillac Desert?"
- "Cadillac Desert" Review:
FRIDAY, 4/21
Bell Work
- Meditative Moment
- 5 minutes of mindfulness
Class
- Water Wars
- Read and discuss connections; PBS: "Why Dams are Are at the Heart of California's Water Wars"
- Watch PBS Newshour: "To Build or Not to Build, That's the Dam Question"
- Discussion Points:
- How do you think the conflicts present in California and the Southwest will transfer to a Global Scale?
- What do the feuds between North and South California show us about potential global conflict over water?