Week 1 - Correction

This is a change in your assignment.

Autobiography of the Earth - due Monday by 12PM.

It is to be 3 pages, double spaced, with normal font and margins.

You may turn in hardcopy during the day on Monday, or send it to my email: ebetts@richmond.k12.va.us

I will send another message with more information about next Thursday's class about FOOD!

Check this blog, your email, and the white board!

-Emily

Week 1

Your first assignment is to think about, talk about and write about your relationship with the Earth. Pick 4 of the following questions that interest you most to write about. After you post, I would also like you to read and respond to two of you classmates posts. Your posts are due Monday, September 8th.

Pick 2

1. Has your relationship with the earth been a relationship with a friend or foe? Or sometime friend and sometime foe?

2. How do you "see" the earth? Is it beautiful or ugly or somewhere in between?

3. What do you "feel" about the natural world? Do you feel joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure about animals or sunsets or white-capped waves?

4. Do you "understand" the natural world and the way that it works? Or are its ways a mystery?

5. Do you "love" the earth - or hate it? Do you care for its well-being, feel for its suffering, want to heal its wounds? Or does thinking about the earth in such terms seem inaccurate and far-fetched?

6. Do you have "faith" in the earth? Perhaps this is a religious faith? Or perhaps this is faith in the sense that you count on the earth to provide well for your life? Or perhaps the earth is faithless, a fickle friend at best?

Pick 2

7. What is your most significant experience of nature? An experience undertaken in the course of work or recreation or other? Are there one or two experiences of an encounter with the natural world that stand out in memory?

8. How has your relationship with the earth been affected by your family history? By the experience of your parents, grandparents, and forebears? By how they came to own and to use property? Did your family go on camping trips? Or did your family hunt, garden or farm? Was your family vegetarian and, if so, why? Has an environmental crisis ever affected you or your family?

9. Has there been a book, movie, song, or course you have taken that has affected deeply how you think about the earth? Has religion played a role - positive or negative - in how you experience your relationship with the earth?

10. What have been some of the most significant economic, social, cultural, or political developments that have affected how you experience the earth?

WELCOME!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to This Planet's For You, a new format for Environmental Science class at Open High School. You will be actively participating in the topics of the class, including field trips, activities, readings and discussions. Part of this is also actively participating in this blog, since class is only once per week.