hey all, first off, congrats for getting paper #1 turned in! .
As we said in class, we are moving to a new project on Wed that invites you to work with a team to design a community garden.
To get started on this, I would like you to go through your Urban Gardening book and identify 5 ideas or concepts or examples that you think could be applied to your garden project. For each of the 5, mark the page number in the book, and write up a sentence or two about the idea.
Pls bring this to class on Wed. thx!
Monday, September 30, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
M/W Eng 1 class--info for next week...
hey all, if you were not in class today, I need you to email me your draft ASAP...like now... I will get back to you with advice etc...
If you were in class today and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Friday or Sat so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Wednesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
If you were in class today and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Friday or Sat so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Wednesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
Wed English 7 nite class ---info etc for next week. ...
hey all, if you were not in class tonight, I need you to email me your draft ASAP...like now... I will get back to you with advice etc...
If you were in class tonight and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Friday or Sat so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Wednesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
If you were in class tonight and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Friday or Sat so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Wednesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Tues nite English class ...what is due next week, OCt 1
hey all, if you were not in class tonight, I need you to email me your draft ASAP...like now... I will get back to you with advice etc...
If you were in class tonight and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Thurs or Friday so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Tuesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
If you were in class tonight and your draft was short or needed work, pls do the revisions, and email it to me by Thurs or Friday so I can get back to you with advice.
Meanwhile, the final essay is of course due next week... You need to bring a paper copy to class on Tuesday.
Your essay needs to have a 3 paragraph introduction. Here is a link to some advice how to do that.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
You need to also bring your Urban Farming book to class next week. ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Links to Scholarly Research in support of FRESH/ KNOWLEDGE GARDEN PBL PROJECT
This post includes supporting research for the FRESH/ KNOWLEDGE GARDEN PBL PROJECT. It is organized under 3 areas: Impact of Food Insecurity on Student Success, Garden/Nature Based Learning, Project Based Learning.
Impact of Food Insecurity on Student Success:
https://sicchabot.wixsite.com/thesic/current-initiatives
This links to a PDF that offers an overview of FRESH Food and Life Pantry--the nature of their work, their successes, and more
https://journals.sagepub.com/
This study examines how food insecurity among college students is a public heath crisis that has implications for academic performance, retention, and graduation rates.
This California Community College's Survey highlights how many students are food insecure at the community college level. 50% of students were food insecure out of the 40,000 students who participated in the survey.
Garden/Nature Based Learning:
Garden/Nature Based Learning:
A metastudy on the research conducted on the benefits of Garden-Based Learning. Studies demonstrate garden-based learning positively increases students’ grades, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes.
This study demonstrates the impact garden-based learning has on at-risk students. Results of the study demonstrate that a two-year garden-based learning program can increase an at-risk student’s academic performance, improve student behavior, and significantly increase retention rates of at-risk students.
This essay argues that garden-based learning increases academic and social equity through culturally responsive teaching.
This paper demonstrates how a garden-based learning curriculum where students are working on a daily basis in school gardens can be effective for improving academic success and can improve students’ scores on standardized tests and accountability measures.
Project-Based Learning Literature Review by Colleen McHugh
The development of critical consciousness in students increases achievement, especially in basic-skills students (Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018). When students have a stake in a co-creative process and design their own learning, their motivation—and engagement—increase (Toshalis & Nakkula, 2012; Hethrington, 2015). The student learns to make meaning of their own place in a global context and finds new frameworks to understand an increasingly heterogenous society (Taylor, 2017; Miller & Schwartz, 2016; Rittel & Weber, 1973). Taylor describes three types of barriers to critical practice in the college classroom: developmental, social, and pedagogical (2017). Developmental barriers might include achieving a degree of self-regulated learning when students may not have previously developed these skills (Toshalis & Nakkula, 2012). When students engage with real-world problems, which are naturally more complex than academic problems, students develop skills around social inquiry and community responsibility (Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018; Miller & Schwartz, 2016). Tactile learning, through problem-solving, failure, and iteration, is successful in building deep knowledge and is generally preferred by students who were able to design their own learning environments (Hethrington, 2015). Social barriers include developing the dynamic interpersonal relationships necessary for learning in group learning context (Taylor, 2018).
The instructor becomes a facilitator and co-creator of the student-driven curriculum, necessarily challenging the teacher/student power differential (Taylor, 2017; Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018). This requires that the instructor understands the social and political structure of the institution and further, they must reject their commonly perceived role as information provider (Scales, 2009). The curriculum, and the instructor, need to be dynamic and adaptable to the students’ experience
(Hethrington, 2018) and, unlike traditional programmatic curriculum will not produce identical results across different classes and may occasionally include some “blunders” that are difficult to anticipate
(Thelin, 2005). Further complicating the instructor experience, evaluation and grading become less clear-cut and the facilitation and feedback necessary to do so are time- and resource-intensive (Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018). Teachers that engage in this critical pedagogy find the experience transformative to their teaching experience (Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018). When instructors believe that the students could fail, that perception is passed on to the students in their class (Thelin, 2005).
Institutional policy can support critical consciousness by encouraging educational dialogue around the “wicked problems” implicit in social policy (Taylor, 2017; Rittel & Weber, 1973; Miller & Schwartz, 2016). One approach to a critical pedagogy is to build empowered “temporal” spaces that give students the mental and emotional space to make connections between the present and history through the study of literature (Scales, 2009; Miller & Schwartz, 2016). In this process, the educator plays a key role as the designer, facilitator, and supporter of critical consciousness among the students (Taylor, 2017; Hethrington, 2015; Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018). Because the short timeframes of a semester-based university calendar are prohibitively short and interrupt deep engagement, a multi-disciplinary approach that facilitates a project that may extend over several classes and semesters could be a key to engaging students in that deep learning necessary for critical consciousness (Hethrington, 2015). Further, the rooms that support this collaborative learning style are fundamentally different, with students describing traditional classrooms as “wholly inadequate” in supporting their learning (Serrano, O’Brien, Roberts & White, 2018, p. 16). Our research supports not only building a new environment to facilitate this critical pedagogy but also significant institutional support for instructors in the form of consultants to help guide their pedagogical transition, programming across disciplines and departments, and instructional classroom aides to fully support students with feedback throughout the process.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
HW for M/W Eng 1 classes
If you havent emailed your draft to me, please do so ASAP....
For next MONDAY, here is the HW:
first off you should revise Questions 1, 3, and 4--based on my advice or fellow students advice.
In addition you should do Q#2. (Please do Rule of 3 for the question... so that makes 3 paras for Q2.)
On MONDAY, this means you will be bringing in 12 body paras.... !
(9 revised paras, and 3 new paras....)
For next MONDAY, here is the HW:
first off you should revise Questions 1, 3, and 4--based on my advice or fellow students advice.
In addition you should do Q#2. (Please do Rule of 3 for the question... so that makes 3 paras for Q2.)
On MONDAY, this means you will be bringing in 12 body paras.... !
(9 revised paras, and 3 new paras....)
HW for TUES NIGHT eng 1 class...
Hey all, next week is Draft day (nite) . You need to bring 2 copies of your essay. It can be digital on a computer or paper.
The goal is to have 15 body paras. (Dont worry about an introduction. We will deal with that in classs next week.) The body paras need to have 2 quotes whenever possible. For sure you want keyword phrases (taken from the essay questions) at the start of each para.
see you next week!
HW for Wed night Eng 7 Class--- this is due next Wed the 25th...
Hey all, next week is Draft day. You need to bring 2 copies of your essay. It can be digital on a computer or paper.
The goal is to have 15 body paras. (Dont worry about an introduction. We will deal with that in classs next week.) The body paras need to have 2 quotes whenever possible. For sure you want keyword phrases (taken from the essay questions) at the start of each para.
If you didnt have a pre-draft in class on the 18th, I think you need to send me 4-5 body paras by Fri or Sat so we can see if you are on the right track. If you DID have some paras, you can still send revised paras on Fri or Sat if you like as well.
see you next week!
The goal is to have 15 body paras. (Dont worry about an introduction. We will deal with that in classs next week.) The body paras need to have 2 quotes whenever possible. For sure you want keyword phrases (taken from the essay questions) at the start of each para.
If you didnt have a pre-draft in class on the 18th, I think you need to send me 4-5 body paras by Fri or Sat so we can see if you are on the right track. If you DID have some paras, you can still send revised paras on Fri or Sat if you like as well.
see you next week!
Thursday, September 12, 2019
HW for Mon /Wed Eng 1 classes---due on Monday...
Hey Mon /Wed Eng 1 classes! so we have some HW to do...
here is what you are doing:
pls read Chapter 2 from Urban Farming. ---after you read it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the chapter that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Now check out Chris Jordan's website. ---after you check it out (go through the ARTWORKS tab), your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, lets do Q#3 Why do we allow these consequences to happen? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, please REVISE Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3 for each question... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...also, what is your relationship to consumption....
On next Monday you will be bringing 9 total paras to class.
here is what you are doing:
pls read Chapter 2 from Urban Farming. ---after you read it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the chapter that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Now check out Chris Jordan's website. ---after you check it out (go through the ARTWORKS tab), your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, lets do Q#3 Why do we allow these consequences to happen? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, please REVISE Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3 for each question... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...also, what is your relationship to consumption....
On next Monday you will be bringing 9 total paras to class.
HW for Eng 7... this is due next Wed the 18th. ....
Hey Wed nite 7 class! so we have some HW to do...
here is what you are doing:
Please watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
NEXT, pls read Chapter 2 from Urban Farming. ---after you read it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the chapter that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, lets do Q#3 Why do we allow these consequences to happen?
and Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3 for each question... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...also, what is your relationship to consumption....
On next Wed you will be bringing 9 total paras to class.
here is what you are doing:
Please watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
NEXT, pls read Chapter 2 from Urban Farming. ---after you read it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the chapter that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, lets do Q#3 Why do we allow these consequences to happen?
and Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3 for each question... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...also, what is your relationship to consumption....
On next Wed you will be bringing 9 total paras to class.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Tues nite English 1 class .. .HW...
Hey Tues nite class! so we have some HW to do... --I would like you to email this all in to me by this Friday or Saturday at the latest. I want to see if you are on the right track. I will get back to you with comments.
here is what you are doing:
Please watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, .lets do Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...
Please email all this to me by Friday or Saturday at the latest.
here is what you are doing:
Please watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
Next please review this blog post about how to write LONG paragraphs.
http://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Now you are ready to answer question 1 from the essay.
HOW did Oil make modern life possible? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
Next, .lets do Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use? (do Rule of 3... which means, do 3 paragraphs.)
As we said in class, question #4 is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...
Please email all this to me by Friday or Saturday at the latest.
Monday, September 9, 2019
HW for M/W Eng 1 classes.... this is due on Wed... the 11th...
hey all, so we want to get started on the essay #1....lets do Q#4: What is your own relationship to energy use?
As we said in class, this question is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...
ALSO, pls watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
See you on wed....
As we said in class, this question is pretty general....SO, you are welcome to think about more specific questions ...you can address how you save energy, how you use energy, how you think about energy (if at all) etc...
ALSO, pls watch this amazing 20 minute long movie "The Story of Stuff"
---after you watch it, your assignment is to identify and write down 3-5 concepts in the movie that you think could perhaps be used to answer the questions on the essay assignment #1.
See you on wed....
Essay #1 --Fall 2019
For this essay we will be investigating issues related to our book, Urban Farming, and to the movies, Crude Awakening and Before the Flood. One of the intriguing arguments that gets built into both the book and the movies is that this contemporary life that many of us take for granted, is actually the result of specific events in history, especially including the discovery and rise of Oil. And of course this same Oil, which has made modern life possible, is also seriously threatening life on this planet.
For this paper you will be examining this claim and taking a stand about whether or not you think this is true. The following questions are intended to offer some guidance to you as you build your paper. It is OK to argue more than one side of a question if that is how you feel.
1. HOW did Oil make modern life possible?
2. What are 3 negative consequences of burning so much Oil on this planet?
3. Why do we allow these consequences to happen?
4. What is your own relationship to energy use?
6. What are 3 possible solutions to this problem? (You should include at least one idea from Urban Farming in this question.)
In order to support your points, you need to use the ideas found in the book, the movies, your research, and in any other handouts, books, 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.
The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages…(BNDJTM…) Be sure you do Rule of 3 for each question that you pick. That will help you reach the page minimum.
Be careful that you don’t simply retell the history of the how humans have used energy over the years. Use these moments in history to SUPPORT the analytic points you want to make. Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the essay assignments tasks.
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Rule of 3
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/rule-of-3.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Typical Academic Paragraph.
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do a 3 paragraph Introduction.
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Rule of 3
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/rule-of-3.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do Typical Academic Paragraph.
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2014/01/features-of-typical-academic-body.html
Here is a Link to discussion of how to do a 3 paragraph Introduction.
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2018/06/3-paragraph-intro.html
Below are due dates for each class... make sure you have the right class ....
The paper is due Sept 30 for the M/W English 1 classes ...First draft is due Sept 25.
The paper is due Oct 1 for the Tues nite 1A class ...First draft is due Sept 24.
The paper is due Oct 2 for the Wed nite Eng 7 class ...First draft is due Sept 25.
Of course we will also be doing pre-drafts along the way as well.
The paper is due Oct 1 for the Tues nite 1A class ...First draft is due Sept 24.
The paper is due Oct 2 for the Wed nite Eng 7 class ...First draft is due Sept 25.
Of course we will also be doing pre-drafts along the way as well.
Best of Luck!!
Friday, September 6, 2019
HW due for the Eng 7 class... due next wed....
hey all,
sorry I had to cancel class last Wed...
here is the HW that is due next week -Sept 11
...you are going to be watching 2 documentaries that offer big picture insights. into climate. change and the. impact of fossil fuels. on the planet
for each movie you will answer this question:
What are 3 things that surprise you or that you did not know before watching this movie? (do a para for each thing)
That means you will have 6 paras total bc you are watching 2 movies... here is the link to them.
A CRUDE AWAKENING
BEFORE THE FLOOD
HW due for the English 1 classes...
hey all,
here is the HW that is due next week --due on Monday for the M/W classes, and due on Tues. nite for the Tues nite class
...you are going to be watching 2 documentaries that offer big picture insights. into climate. change and the. impact of fossil fuels. on the planet
for each movie you will answer this question:
What are 3 things that surprise you or that you did not know before watching this movie? (do a para for each thing)
That means you will have 6 paras total bc you are watching 2 movies... here is the link to them.
A CRUDE AWAKENING
BEFORE THE FLOOD
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