Wednesday, March 6, 2019

HW for the Wed nite English 4 and for the Thurs nite English 4


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…you will answer these 2 questions...
A. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
B. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)

the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...
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

2. Find an article or statistics that offer 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

3. pls go to this website--Chris Jordan--
and spend about 30 minutes or more looking at his work.
Then pls answer these questions... these should be typed
A.  Which work of art is your favorite and why? (one para minimum)
B.  What is one thing that you learned from his art that surprised you?  (one para minimum)
C. What is Jordan trying to say with his art?  (one para minimum)

4. Watch Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard . Here are a couple of question for you to write a 2-3 paras about: What is something in the video that you did not know? What do you think of her strategy of explaining things by analyzing "systems"?

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