LESSON #14 - A World in Crisis

  • LESSON #14 - A World in Crisis

    IN THIS LESSON YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

    1) develop your speaking and expository writing skills

    2) integrate your learning by working in several peer interactions

    • Glossary of words for the song

      These are very common English words and phrases. If they are new to you, please record them in your Portfolio.

      Abuse: (verb) 

      Abusive: (adverb) 

      Abused: adjective

      Mercy (verb: to have mercy)

      Merciful: (adjective)

      Mercury: (noun)

      Overcrowded: (adverb)

      Radiation: (noun)

    • Activity 14.1: Personal Reflection on the State of the World Assignment

      After listening to the song, watching the video, and studying the lyrics (see below), write a 25-50 word personal reflection on the state of the world as you see it. Do you share the narrator's (singer's) opinion? If not, why not? If you agree, what can you do in your own life to become an "agent of change?"

      MERCY, MERCY, ME (THE ECOLOGY SONG) BY MARVIN GAYE

      Ah, mercy, mercy me
      Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
      Where did all the blue skies go?
      Poison is the wind that blows
      From the north and south and east.

      Woah, mercy, mercy me, yeah
      Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
      Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas
      Fish full of mercury.

      Oh mercy, mercy me, ah
      Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
      Radiation underground and in the sky
      Animals and birds who live nearby are are dying

      Oh, mercy, mercy me, oh
      Hey, things ain't what they used to be
      What about this overcrowded land?
      How much more abuse from man can she stand?

      Oh, na, na, na

      Na, na, na,
      Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
      Hey, ooh, woo

      Source: Musixmatch / Songwriters: Marvin Gaye

      Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) lyrics © Nmg Music, Mgiii Music, Fcg Music, Jobete Music Co Inc

    • Activity 14.2: CARFACE - animation by Claude Cloutier Assignment

      https://www.nfb.ca/film/carface/

      In this animated short, a Chevy Bel Air 1957 offers an ironic-take on the iconic American ballad “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”.  The film is a satire of our Big Oil-based civilization, and pokes at our ignorance about the environmental perils that threaten Planet Earth

      With your pair partner discuss the alternatives you are aware of to fossil fuels such as oil and gas. Then, go online, and do deep research together on Green Alternative (non-fossil fuels) Sources of Energy.

      Working together, write a minimum of a one-page, double-spaced report on your research findings. Think about your report as something you could read to a class of young children in grades 4-6. 

    • Activity 14.3: The Alaska Pipeline and multiple-choice questions Assignment

      Read the OSSLT selection entitled THE ALASKA PIPELINE and answer the six multiple-choice questions that follow.

      Indicate the Question Number and your Answer "letter"

    • Asynchronous Activity 14.4: Sentence Errors and multiple-choice questions Assignment

      Answer the six multiple-0choice questions on page 158 of the OSSLT Study Guide.

    • Asynchronous Activity 14.5: THE LEGEND OF THE PANDA Assignment

      Read The Legend of the Panda and answer the six multiple-choice questions that follow. Also, write a carefully composed short answer response to the question:

      Explain why fewer than one thousand pandas remain living in the wild in China today? (2009 statistic)

    • HOMEWORK: Hatfield Is Out of This World Assignment

      Read the article "Hatfield is Out of This World". Astronaut Colonel Chris Hatfield is a famous Canadian jet-fighter pilot and astronaut.

      Time yourself as you read the article and answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.

      Upload your answers with Question # and Letter and indicate the speed with which you completed the assignment