Wednesday, 11/20/13 - Due: Vocabulary defns. and blanks. Sentences are extra credit as always.
Warm Up. Copy. Use your roots sheet and your spelling*/vocabulary** list.
- * "loosen into two" =
- * "loosenable" =
- * "nature study" =
- * "with carry stuff" = ______
- * "together try for thing" = _____
- ** pull out : extract :: tempt : _____
- ** support : advocate :: control : _______
- ** middle : fringe :: polluted : ______
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. Write the word. You will use one word twice.
pristine, sustainable, fringe, relegate, seduce, foresight, regulate, epidemic, extract, advocate, bias
- "Is bottled water cleaner than tap water? Sometimes,
sometimes not; in many ways, bottled water is less _________(ed) than
tap water." (not pristine)
- Annie Leonard claims than the bottled water industry is not
environmentally _______; it can't go on doing what it's doing for long.
- When you read or hear something, remember to look for that person's _______. How they feel about the subject can affect what facts they present.
- One company claims their water comes from the untouched , __________ rainforests of Fiji.
- Annie Leonard calls bottled water a "_________ product." That's one that is sort of weird and "out there." Like oxygen bars or pet rocks.
- "When we're done," one top water exec said, "tap water will be _______ to showers and washing dishes."
- Before they can make plastic, oil must be ________(ed) from the ground.
- Bottled water companies claim they are helping to fight the obesity ________ with their product.
- (2) "Have you ever noticed how bottled water tries to _______ us with pictures of mountain streams and _______ nature?"
- "Yes, it takes a bit of ________ to grab a reusable bottle on the way out," but most of you can probably think that far ahead.
- Your lawyer is supposed to be your _________ in court, explaining your side of the story.
Bottled Water II. After the video. The bold-faced parts are the writing parts.
What was surprising and/or interesting to you? Why? (in notebook)
Read the script aloud.
Write one sentence that the essential who, what, when, where, and why of "The Story of Bottled Water." (in notebook)
Annie Leonard's speech is basically in three parts:
- The story of how bottled water came to be. Paragraphs 1 - ______
- How bottled water trashes the environment. Paragraphs ____ - _____
- What we can do (activism). Paragraphs _____ - 33
Skim the article again. Copy the three sections above and fill in the blanks where you think each section begins and ends.