Welcome Back!

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Welcome Back!

• Semester 2 here we go!

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• Standards

• Objectives

• 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational
  Materials) Students read and understand
  grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze
  the organizational patterns, arguments, and
  positions advanced. The selections in Recommended
  Literature, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve
  illustrate the quality and complexity of the
  materials to be read by students. In addition, by
  grade twelve, students read two million words
  annually on their own, including a wide variety
  of classic and contemporary literature,
  magazines, newspapers, and online information.
• 2.3 Write reflective compositions a. Explore the
  significance of personal experiences, events,
  conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical
  strategies (e.g., narration, description,
  exposition, persuasion). b. Draw comparisons
  between specific incidents and broader themes
  that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or
  generalizations about life. c. Maintain a balance
  in describing individual incidents and relate
  those incidents to more general and abstract
  ideas.

• Students will be able to
• read and identify the details of the class for
  the second semester by reading, discussing, and
  signing the syllabus.
• Create goals for themselves and a plan to achieve
  these goals by defining their goals and coming up
  with specific steps to follow.
• discuss and describe their own ideas on the
  politics of food.

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Semester 2 Syllabus

• After we go over the second semester syllabus as
  a class, please take it home and read through
  with your parents or guardians, sign the second
  page, and return it next class. If you turn it in
  next class then you will not only escape from a
  call home everyday until it is turned in, you
  will also receive points!
• If you lose the copy given to you in class, it is
  on the class website so you can simply print out
  another one!

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Goals

• Goals from last semester
• Did you accomplish your semester goals?
• If yes, how? If no, why not?
• Have you made progress towards your goals for the
  year?
• If yes, how? If no, why not?
• New goals
• Create two new goals for this semester. One needs
  to be about this class or academic in nature, the
  other can be whatever you wish. Also create two
  specific steps you can take to achieve each goal.
• Come up with two additional steps to continue
  towards achieving your goals for the year.

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Senior Project Career Interests

• Even though it is early, it is important to start
  thinking about the career you want to focus on
  for your senior project.
• Keep in mind
• It is possible to focus on and complete your
  shadowing for ANY career, whether there are
  confidentiality, clearance, time, schedule, or
  availability issues. What you need to combat
  these obstacles is TIME!

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Senior Project Career Interests

• For example
• Some places, like hospitals or child care
  facilities, require you to have some sort of
  background check before you are allowed to be
  there. This may take a few weeks, so if you wait
  until a week before your shadowing should be
  complete and then try to shadow somewhere and
  they require a check, you will not have enough
  time and be forced into a situation where you are
  stressed and maybe even have to choose a whole
  new career.

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Senior Project Career Interests

• Other examples
• Scheduling can be an issue, when youre free you
  cant find a mentor in your career choice who is
  free or they only work during school hours and
  then you are forced to try and get an excused
  absence from school and then fall behind in some
  of your classes.
• Your career of choice might be difficult to
  shadow a mentor because of confidentiality issues
  and thus you will need to see me to work out a
  comparable assignment, which usually involves
  finding several mentors with whom you can
  interview and discuss the realities of your
  chosen career.

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The Politics of Food

• Word association What is the first thing that
  comes to mind when you hear/see the following-
• food
• fast food
• vegetables
• meat
• from scratch
• high fructose corn syrup
• trans fat
• mad cow disease
• E. coli

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The Politics of Food

• Class discussion What do we know about the
  politics of food? What issues do the media
  present? What issues do you have?
• Personal response/quickwrite Describe your
  relationship with food. What does it mean to you,
  how involved in preparation are you, what are
  your views?

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Homework

1. Go over syllabus with parents/guardians, sign,
   and return next class
2. Bring ERWC Articles The Politics of Food (2
   articles, one by Wendell Berry and the other by
   Michael Pollan)
3. Begin thinking about your outside reading book
   for this semester.