Daily Agendas
Week 1 - September 1 - 5, 1997
Monday - Labor Day, No School
Tuesday - Freshmen Only, No School
Wednesday -
Welcome to class
Please make your name tag and fill out the index card with your name, phone number, and parent’s name(s). On the back of the card, please explain why you are taking this course.
Announcements
Schedule distribution/Roll call
Explanation of class schedules - (4X4, A/B, traditional)
Dismissal to assembly in gym
Thursday -
Welcome - Please pick up your name tags
Announcements
Roll call
Name game interview
Pairs reading -
Please read one of the two essays: "The Potential of Environmental History" or "The Human Factor in Environmental Change" by William Cronon (1983). Both are from Roderick Frazier Nash’s American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, 1990 (pp.1-8, pp.17-24). Pairs share main ideas in selection you read.
Homework:
Read the selection you did not read in class. On your own paper, write three paragraphs; one for the main ideas of each essay, and one about what you think this tells you about the study of Environmental History. Due at the beginning of the period tomorrow, Friday. Written assignment worth 25 points.
Friday -
Welcome - Please pick up your name tags.
Announcements
Roll call
Small group activity-
In groups of four or five please review your homework and as a group write a single topic sentence for each of the three paragraphs you wrote last night.
Whole-class activity - Board share
Have a representative write your three topic sentences on the white boards under the appropriate paragraph heading. Class discussion will follow about the topic sentences in each list. Be prepared to defend your group’s topic sentence.
Small group activity -
In groups of three or four, draw a graphic which represents the relationships among humans, nature (animals, plants, etc.), and their environment (land, air, water, etc.). Show where each element impacts the others and how they do so.
In a second drawing, construct a poster which advertises the Environmental History class. Try to show others what we will be learning about. These posters will be displayed outside the classroom, so be neat!
Direct instruction/notes -
Introduction to Worster (pp. 2-9) and Crosby (pp. 14-22) essays in Major Problems in American Environmental History edited by Carolyn Merchant, 1993.
Homework:
Read and be ready to discuss both essays in class on Tuesday.
