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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 45

 

·         WARMUP: Number a paper 1 – 9 and answer the following fill-in-blank (make your best guesses):

o   The average home has at least ____1_______ TV sets and the average American watches ____2_____ hours of TV every day which is over _____3_______ over the course of one’s lifetime sitting in front of the tube.

o   It takes ______4________ cows to feed humans in the United States (annually). Each human (in the U.S.) consumes ___5____ pints of milk a week or ____6_____ pints a month or ____7_____ pints a year. We will each consume ___8___ pints of milk per person per lifetime.

o   But milk is only a tiny part of our diet. As a nation, we eat a total of ___9___ pounds of food every day.

§  Reviewed the answers

 

Began Human Footprint unit DAY1 - Watched half of documentary film today Human Footprint – approx. 55 minutes

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/human_footprint

 

As you watch the film:

  1. Write down 4 direct quotations (not statistics) from the film – that you will later use in your paper.
  2. Write down 4 examples (statistics) from the film that show how every human being impacts the earth.

 

After watching the video:

  1. Think of 2 specific examples from your own life (that were not mentioned in the video) that illustrate your personal understanding of impact. 
  2. Consider possible solutions.  What can be done?  Who should do what?  Why?

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) = dict ………therm

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