Class Agenda: 12-3

1. Quiz. Choose from any of the three readings from The Global Warming Reader that we've been reading on our own the past week. Once you're selected the reading, find a passage that you marked with interest and return to the passage. Practice two forms of critical thinking on that passage.

Reader: “Global Warming Twenty Years Later,” 275-284

Reader: “from The End of Nature,” 293-298

Reader: “The Darkening Sea,” 377-400 

2. Announcements

All Revisions due Dec 10th.

Extra Credit: Watch this film and blog about its connections to our course discussions (400 words).

3. Twitter: let's check on the conversation.

Naomi ‏@NaomiRam14

Jean Li and I came up with an idea that Zeitoun is responsible for the way he looked after comin out of prison :/ 

Andrea Villalobos ‏@villaloboslagcc

I see critical thinking as a good way to view the things in other aspects. Thinking rationally or objectively ;) 

Abraham ‏@loko526

Were the people who tortured zeitoun punished in the end or they just lived happily ever after? 

Vince Li ‏@vincemin2012

The rates species "disappearing" are much faster than normal because human think they are "domination" and over-haunt animals (Bingham 300). 

jellymei-climate ‏@jellymei123

But i think Kathy as a wife, she didn't do enough to make Zeitoun recover from the being hurt mantal health. 

mahanaj ‏@mahanajeng101

The safe level co2 is 350 ppm but now co2 existing already 385ppm.(Mckibben 278) 

4. They Say I Say

Review quote sandwich templates on page 47. 

Three ways to respond: page 55.

Templates page 60: disagreeing with reasons. 

Templates for agreeing with a difference: 62. 

Agreeing and Disagreeing at the same time!? pages 65-66.

NAYSAYING - Discuss objections (82-83). 

5. Groupwork: Creating Keywords ("ideas") from texts, defining them, and raising objections

For this next activity we will practice two skills: creating a keyword, or key idea, that helps communicate something important to a reader, and also raising an objection, or naysayer, in a discussion. Groups will see what passage they found, read it together, and discuss the creation of keywords (we'll model one first a a class). They will also attempt some "Naysayer" objections. Each group should have readers and writers, because as a group someone should post their response as a blog.

Group One: "From the Darkening Sea," page 379, pgh: "Since the start..."

Group Two: "From the Darkening Sea," page 380, pgh: "When CO2 dissolves..."

Group Three: "From the Darkening Sea," page 390, pghs: "Coral Reefs are dying..." to the end of the page.

Group Four: "From the Darkening Sea," page 394, pghs: "Carol Turley..." and "It looks like..."

Group Five: "Global Warming Twenty Years Later," page 276, "Changes needed..."

Group Six: "Global Warming Twenty Years Later," page 277, "Climate can reach points"