a new unit of Climate / Nature

 I think that it is –by far– the most important topic that anyone should  learn about. Climate / Nature issues impact EVERY other issue on the planet, including issues  that at first glance might not seem to be related–for example, Covid 19. (Climate Change and encroachment on Nature is a LEADING reason why pandemics are more likely these days.)  

 

1. This HW assignment is a little different. You are being asked to go out to nature  / Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…after you spend the time out there, you will answer these 2 questions…
2. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…notice the DETAILS that are  around you. 
3. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 3 with this question)

the goal is 2 pages of writing…

how to do this:   dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree… you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, —find the nature where you find it… dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with yourself in nature…turn off your phone

1. Find an article that offers insight into the state of Nature in the Bay Area. You can focus on a system, like the Bay, or a river. You can investigate some  development, like maybe an organization that is addressing issues in Nature.    Briefly summarize the article and give a link to it.  You will be sharing your research with classmates.

3.  Please go to this website–

Chris Jordan– (Links to an external site.)

and spend about one hour looking at his work.    

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#carbon

 

Then pls answer these questions…

1. Which work of art is your favorite and why? (one para minimum)
2. What is one thing that you learned from his art that surprised you?  (one para minimum)
3. What is Jordan trying to say with his art?  (one para minimum)

4. Watch

Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard.  (Links to an external site.)

 

The Story of Stuff

 

Here are a couple of questions for you to write a 2-3 paras about: What are some ideas or issues in the video that you did not know?  What does this film have to do with Climate Change? (She does not really talk about Climate Change explicitly, but the ideas still have strong connections to Climate / Nature issues.)

9/9/2020 Passion and Equity :

RULE OF 3

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RULE OF 3

RULE OF 3

A crucial part of college involves coming up with and then shaping/controlling an idea or concept.
When students �irst try to answer questions posed in class or on essay prompts, almost always
their ideas are too big, too general–with the result that it appears clichéd. Students can’t handle
these big ideas—they get over whelmed or lost or jumbled. Our job is to help them take control of
their own mind. (One thing I do is to let students know it is GREAT that their ideas are too big.
Because Student Capacity can be honored and put into play.) Like Goldilocks trying to �ind the right
bed, we talk about an idea being too big/too small/just right. By “just right” we mean an idea that is
just right for dealing with inside of one single paragraph. Soon this becomes a mantra type question
in the class. A student offers a response to a question or raises an idea and we ask “too big/too
small/just right?”

As we said, most of the time a student’s �irst concept choice is TOO BIG. The “Rule of 3” is one very
powerful way to get a handle on an idea, carve it into smaller more easy-to-handle ideas that can
then be turned into a paragraph. “Rule of 3” means when you have a concept, you should see if it
can be broken into 3 (sometimes 2 or 4 can work too) smaller concepts. Similarly, when you are
asked a question, see if you can give more than ONE answer by offering 3 (sometimes 2 or 4 can
work too) concepts in response. When students practice doing this they are amazed how powerful
their brain is and how much content is really IN THERE! Why do Rule of 3? Doing so gives students
more ideas to work with. Doing so allows students to see that that bigbigbig paragraph probably
has a bunch of smaller ideas jumbled inside. That is a problem because we want only ONE speci�ic
concept per paragraph.

(Below are notes from a class discussion—the underlined concepts were “too big” and so the class
did “Rule of 3” on them.)

Relationship: love, family, friend Responding to mistakes: Repent, Move on, Try it again

NOT Responding to mistakes: Regrets, Do it again, People angry, Punishment

Analysis of mistakes: Why did I make the mistake, Why am I still making mistake, How to stop,
Lessons learned
Areas in my life where I am making mistakes: Of�ice, social world, school

This Rule of 3 exercise below came out of a discussion around “Into the Wild.” We were talking
about Chris and what he values in life and someone said “Nature.” The class quickly realized that
Nature is too big of a concept—-how can we RULE OF 3 it?

Living off the land

Spiritual connection with nature
Push himself and be tested by nature
Nature as place for Adventure
Nature’s rhythms effect Chris: Emotionally, Mentally, Physically (You can Rule of 3 a
concept that was already created by a previous Rule of 3 exercise!)

Of course 3 is just a number. In this case the class generated 5 or so smaller concepts.
These concepts were much more “handleable” for students when it came time to write
paragraphs. Once students get a right sized idea, they need to know how to talk about it,
how to spend time developing it inside an academic paragraph. Below is a paragraph
template that can help them “package” the concept…

► ► 2020 (30)

► ► 2019 (100)

► ► 2018 (96)

► ► 2017 (72)

► ► 2016 (70)

► ► 2015 (78)

▼ ▼ 2014 (52)

► ► December (3)

► ► November (2)

► ► October (2)

► ► September (3)

► ► August (4)

► ► July (4)

► ► June (4)

► ► May (7)

► ► April (3)

► ► March (10)

► ► February (7)

▼ ▼ January (3)
All the Homework assigned so

far….through end of…

RULE OF 3

Features of Typical Academic Body
Paragraph

► ► 2013 (36)

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adsfgdasfgfgf June 24, 2015 at 10:41 AM

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adsfgdasfgfgf June 24, 2015 at 10:41 AM

this shit is wack
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Wahida January 27, 2019 at 9:58 PM

I really like the idea about rule 3, it is very helpful and i agree with the idea to be specific
about the concept and talk about the actual topic.

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xchristyyl January 29, 2019 at 10:32 PM

I think the rule of 3 is very beneficial to those who can sometimes get stuck on how to get
started. Instead of remaining stuck on one big idea, you can have 3 (or 2 or 4) topics about
it to help you get unstuck. It can also help generate more ideas and get the brain flowing in
order to write better. It sounds like a good idea, in my opinion. -Christy Leong

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