Sunday, September 8, 2013

Week 04














Week 04
Tu 9.10
  • Read: HEART—Preface-p. 43 – 76; eR—“Climate Change: Key Data Points from Pew Research” (Pew Research Center), “News Agencies Begin Ignoring Climate Change, Because America Doesn't Care” (PolicyMic), “Climate Change: 'Hoax' or Crime of the Century?” (Forbes), “Al Gore: Climate of Denial” (Rolling Stone), “Climate Change: How Do We Know?” (NASA)
  • Class: Watch: “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow” from South Park (2005) and “Brian Skerry: The Ocean's Glory—and Horror” (TED Talks); Lecture—“MLA Style: An Introduction”
Th 9.12
  • Read: HEART—p. 77 – 122; eR—“Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority of Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Crisis” (Forbes), “Winter 2013 Freezes Growth of American Acceptance of Global Warming” (Brookings Institute), “Poll: Majority of Republicans Believe Global Warming a Hoax” (The Hill), “No Need to Panic about Global Warming” (Wall Street Journal
  • Class: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ESSAY
  • Due: REFLECTION 02

Week 05
Tu 9.17
  • Read: HEART—p. 123 – 150; eR—““Why on Earth Do We Listen to Those Who Cry Wolf?” (OnEarth), “The Climate Crisis Hoax” (Forbes), “How Green are Millennials?” (NewGeography), “Why Republicans Doubt Global Warming” (The Week), “We Are All Climate Change Deniers” (Time), “Global Warming & Climate Change Myths” (SkepticalScience)
  • Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations
Th 9.19
  • Read: HEART—p. 151 – 238
  • Class: Watch—American Experience: Into the Deep—America, Whaling & the World (2010) 
  • Due: INFOGRAPHIC (DRAFT 1, BRING THREE COPIES) 
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Due by Tu 10.1:
LEARNINGCURVE GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1 & 2:
  • ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
  • COMMA SPLICES AND FUSED (RUN-ON) SENTENCES
  • PARALLELISM
  • FRAGMENTS
  • PRONOUNS
  • SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

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