Jewish Americans

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Jewish Americans

ELO: Intercultural Knowledge and Competence

Learning Target: The student will develop an understanding of cultural differences and similarities.

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Key terms and notes on the topics are available through canvas assignment.
Watch Religions of The World: Judaism (video) – Library Media Reserve.
Write an essay of your understanding of the topic
Length: At least two pages long.  Introduction, body and conclusion
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Add title page and an abstract page.
Double Space
Add References and Citations. At least three
Diversify the references. Britannica and Wikipedia are not accepted as references.
Times New Roman, 12 font size
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Holistic Assessment of Critical Thinking

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Holistic Assessment of Critical Thinking
Essay Directions:
Read the passages below and write an essay that addresses the following:

What is the position in each passage?
What evidence or reasons are given in support of each position?
Which position is more convincing and why?
Do no additional research on the topics other than using a dictionary.

The Controversy:  Does buying green products improve the environment?

Passage 1.  Con:  from Buying Green Products Is an Inadequate Environmental Remedy by Monica Hesse

“When wannabe environmentalists try to change purchasing habits without also altering their consumer mind-set, something gets lost in translation.”

Buying green is a sign that people recognize the need to protect the environment, claims Monica Hesse in the following viewpoint. However, she argues, consuming green products is not the solution. Consumption will not solve the nation’s environmental challenges, Hesse explains. To be truly green means to buy less, not green, she maintains. Replacing products thought to be environmentally unsound increases consumption, which in turn increases environmental problems, she reasons.

In satiric fashion, she admonishes the green consumer:

Congregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy.

Let us buy Anna Sova Luxury Organics Turkish towels, 900 grams per square meter, $58 apiece. Let us buy the eco-friendly 600-thread-count bed sheets, milled in Switzerland with U.S. cotton, $570 for queen-size.

Let us purge our closets of those sinful synthetics, purify ourselves in the flame of the soy candle at the altar of the immaculate Earth Weave rug, and let us buy, buy, buy until we are whipped into a beatific froth of free-range fulfillment.

And let us never consider the other organic optionnot buyingbecause the new green consumer wants to consume, to be more celadon than emerald, in the right color family but muted, without all the hand-me-down baby clothes and out-of-date carpet. 

Passage 2.  Pro:  from Buying Green Products Will Improve the Environment by Jenny Shank

“There’s a certain thrill, that you get to go out and replace everything,” says Leslie Garrett, author of “The Virtuous Consumer,” a green shopping guide. “New bamboo T-shirts, new hemp curtains.”

Garrett describes the conflicting feelings she and her husband experienced when trying to decide whether to toss an old living room sofa: “Our dog had chewed on itthere were only so many positions we could put it in” without the teeth marks showing. But it still fulfilled its basic role as a sofa: “We could still sit on it without falling through.”

They could still make do. They could still, in this recession-wary economy, where everyone tries to cut back, subscribe to the crazy notion that conservation was about … conserving. Says Garrett, “The greenest products are the ones you don’t buy.”

There are exceptions. “Certain environmental issues trump other issues,” Garrett says. “Preserving fossil fuels is more critical than landfill issues.” If your furnace or fridge is functioning but inefficient, you can replace it guilt-free.

Ultimately, Garrett and her husband did buy a new sofa (from IkeaGarrett appreciated the company’s ban on carcinogens). But they made the purchase only after finding another home for their old coucha college student on Craigslist was happy to take it off their hands.

The sofa example is what Josh Dorfman, host of the Seattle radio show “The Lazy Environmentalist,” considers to be a best-case scenario for the modern consumer. “Buying stuff is intrinsically wrapped up in our identities,” Dorfman says. “You can’t change that behavior. It’s better to say, ‘You’re a crazy shopaholic. You’re not going to stop being a crazy shopaholic. But if you’re going to buy 50 pairs of jeans, buy them from this better place.’”

Then again, his show is called “The Lazy Environmentalist.”

Source Citations

Hesse, Monica. “Buying Green Products Is an Inadequate Environmental Remedy.” The Environment, edited by Louise I. Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Shank, Jenny. “Buying Green Products Will Improve the Environment.” The Environment, edited by Louise I. Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Point of View Presentation on Fifth Business

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Step 1: Choose a character from the following list:  Boy
 Leola  Paul  Fiona Ramsay
 Reverend Dempster  another major character approved by the teacher
Step 2: Do a thorough job of researching and analyzing this character’s major character
details, including personality traits, goals, fears, and anything else that would be relevant to
portraying the character accurately. You might also want to represent the way a character
exemplifies a theme, depending on which event in the text you are discussing.
Step 3: Write a 500 word piece presenting the point of view of the character on a single key
event in the story. It may either be written (a) in the third person, as a formal, academic
discussion of the character’s thoughts and feelings, or (b) in the first person, as a dramatic
monologue, a diary entry or a letter to an acquaintance or relative.
Either way, it must be presented orally in a video recording no more than 5 minutes
long. (You only need to be on camera for a few seconds at the start to identify yourself.
After that, the screen can be blank. It’s only necessary that I hear you clearly.)
(Remember that, if you are writing this piece in the first person voice, as the character, this
doesn’t mean you need to write like exactly like Robertson Davies, but you should try to
sound like the person you have chosen, in terms of personality and psychology.)  Please remember: your writing should only discuss one specific event, not the entire
story up to that point.  You are not to spend much space describing the event. Most of your time should be
devoted to discussing the character’s feelings, intentions, hopes, fears and reactions
regarding the event.
Step 4: To assist me in following and understanding your PoV Presentation, you must also
submit a brief, point form, written Character Outline wherein you will clearly list the
character details that your presentation has included, in addition to an explanation of how each
character detail is represented in your speech.
Evaluation:
Knowledge – accurate depiction of the character through your presentation (10 marks)
Thinking – clarity and thoroughness of explanation in the Character Outline (10 marks)
Communication – diction, pace and formal presentation tone (third person)

  • diction, pace and dramatic tone (first person) (10 marks)

Sample Solution

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Humanitarian aid

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Proposal or Grant- Do you want to start a club, raise money for an event, or launch an initiative? You might
want to write a proposal. Proposal and policy briefs are similar, but proposals are more action-oriented, and
policy briefs are more theoretical. If you go into the corporate workplace, you will write tons of proposals. If
you end up in an academic field, education, medicine, humanitarian aid, or science, prepare to spend a lot of
time writing grants. You might even write a grant to fund your salary someday.
Chapter 12 in your textbook, Everything’s an Argument, details types of proposals, and how to develop your
ideas. A grant is a type of proposal. Sections of a proposal might include:
• Introduction
• Assessment of the Current Situation
• What you Propose
• Whom it Benefits and Why
• Counterarguments
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Works Cited

Sample Solution

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