Description
For this first essay we will be investigating an important issue related to our semester together. Climate Silence. The following questions will guide you as you build your paper. You must answer all 5 of the questions.
1. What is your own attitude about talking about climate issues? How often do you do it? Who do you talk to? IF you do NOT talk to people about climate issues, why don’t you?
2. What is your own relationship to energy use, to making a difference about the environment, to materialism?
3. What is “Climate Silence”?
4. What are 3 reasons why colleges should take responsibility towards breaking Climate Silence?
5. What are some ways that colleges CAN make a difference about the Climate Crisis? (At least one of your answers to this question needs to be a discussion of creative ways that teachers can “climatize” their curriculum.)
Even the personal questions can take quotes
In order to support your points, you need to use the ideas found in our sources, movies, your research, and in any other handouts, etc. that we have access to.
You should try to include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible, two is good! Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. EVERY body para needs at least one quote. Even the personal questions (Q1 and 2) need to have quotes. We will be talking about why and how to do this.
The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages. Be sure you do Rule of 3 for each question that you pick. That will help you reach the page minimum. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the essay assignments questions.
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Rule of 3
(Links to an external site.)
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/rule-of-3.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Typical Academic Paragraph.
(Links to an external site.)
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Links to other sources related to the topic required:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiC_9RHTvsAhttp://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-passion-project-full-transcript.html (Links to an external site.)
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-passion-project-full-transcript.html
https://vimeo.com/104907956 (Links to an external site.)
Here are links to the written transcripts of the movie.
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/09/recycling-gift-full-transcript-part-1.html (Links to an external site.)
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/09/recycling-gift-full-transcript-part-2.html
http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#carbon
. https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/