Reflection Weeks 11&12

Week 11

This week, we watched the documentary "Unnatural Causes". This showed a city and it's different neighborhoods. It showed the education level of the people living in the areas and their standard of living. It showed that the higher the education, the higher the standard of living usualy is. It was sad to see some of the problems some of the people living in the poorer areas faced.


Week 12

This week, we had Shar as a guest teacher. It was a really fun class and I think she did a great job. I think we had a really interesting discussion about the hole in the ozone closing. After reading chapter 20 in our books, we discussed how the information might not be accurate.

Reflection: Weeks 9& 10

Week 9
This week in class we discussed taking pictures. We talked about the basics of picture taking like how to use your camera, getting the right angle, and watching the background so that a person in the picture dosen't look like they're wearing a hat. something else we discussed was getting permission to use people in your pictures. I confused me a little bit.

Week 10
NO CLASS

Reflection: Weeks 7& 8

Week 7

This week we watched the documentary "Green". This documentary was about an area on the Mississippi river known as "cancer alley". This is a stretch about 100 miles long with many chemical factories located along the river. It showed some of the people living in the area and some of the problems that they face. One of the biggest problems is cancer. This is how the area got its name.

Week 8

This week we watched the documentaty "Thirst". I was gone for the first day of the video, and the second day didn't go so well either. What I did see is that this video focused on the privitization of water. It also showed that people are trying to treat water as more of an asset that a right to life.

Reflection: Weeks 5& 6

Week 5
One thing we did this week was the CSPI eye opener. I toured the food supply for this eye opener. The website I visited had a lot of interesting and hard to think about facts. Another thing we did this week was watch the Documentary "Diet for a new America". After hearing all of the facts from the documentaries and activities, it's really making me think a lot more about what I eat. I have even been trying to eat a little healthier and eat fast food less.

Week 6
This week we watched the documentary "Future of Food". this video showed some of the effects that farming can have on the environment and our health. This video was especialy interesting to me because I come from a small farm town. It made me mad to see the people from Monsanto sueing farmers for having thier seeds in their fields when they couldn't do anything to stop it from happening. I was also very surprised to learn that there is no law requiring products to be labled that contain genetically modified crops. I really think that more people need to have their eyes opened to this information.

Reflection: Weeks 3& 4

The last two weeks have been getting better. I think I finally have a better handle on the blogging. We have done a few reviews, with some good discusions. The class is now a lot more fun and more interesting now that we're covering more of the book content and not just playing on the computers. I also really like the Eye Opener post that we did. It really put into perspective the amount of resources we all use. In weeks 3& 4, we watched the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth". I thought this was a very good video. I think that the weeks to come will be even better.

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