Read, Watch, and Do: Introduction to Environmental Justice
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- Points 14
- Submitting a website url
Overview
In this activity, you will learn about the environmental justice movement. The goal of reading and watching the video is for you to pull out information from both the text and the video that resonates with you (made you think or made you feel). Keep track of information that surprises you or that you feel is important to share.
Directions
- Review the response questions located in the Write section.
- Read the Executive Summary on pages 2 & 3 and timeline on pages 12 & 13.
- Watch the video.
- Open a Google Doc and type your answers to the response questions in a Google Doc.
- Submit your answers using the Google Link.
Read
Read from the beginning through Chapter Four, p. 43, in the article Who's in Danger: Poverty, Race and Chemical Disasters
Watch
The TED talk by Major Carter called Greening the Ghetto which details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx.
Write
Respond to the questions below on a Google Doc. Submit your answers using a Google Link
- Based on the reading, listening and thinking you have done for this section of the module, define environmental justice in your own words.
- List 3 points from the Executive Summary that you feel are significant. Explain why you feel they are important to share.
- List 3 main points from Greening the Ghetto that you feel are significant. Explain why you feel they are important to shareli>
- Make two connections between the text and the video.
- List 4 questions you have in response to the video and text.
Licenses and Attributions
- The reading: "Who's in Danger?" by Coming Clean is © 2014. All Rights Reserved.
- The video Greening the ghetto by Majora Carter is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Rubric
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CCR Language Anchor 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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CCR Anchor 2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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CCR Reading Anchor 1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. (Apply this standard to text of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)
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CCR Anchor 2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. (Apply this standard to texts of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)
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CCR Reading Anchor 9: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
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