Week 6

Coal, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Mountaintop Removal - Students mine chocolate chips from cookies in a simulation then discuss the benefits, drawbacks and complications in the process as they analyze modern mining techniques and the movement to change policy.

Five Years After the Levees Broke: Bearing Witness Through Poetry - A teacher’s reflection on the power of poetry to spark critical discussion and reflection on current issues of inequality surrounding disaster response in the United States

Take a look at the lesson attached to the video here: https://ed.ted.com/on/FGNRaGnF

You can customize your own lesson at TED-Ed or just use the one I've provided to facilitate a deeper discussion with students.

Thanks to Donor's Choose we were able to secure books for selected students over the Summer. We're also geared up for a beginning book study with every STEM upperclassman when classes resume in the Fall, whether that be online or in person.

Check out the titles below.

• Select a poem and share it on social media using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
• Simultaneously participate in the Shelter in Poems initiative, and select a poem that brings you solace during this time of distance and solitude. Share what it means to you and use the hashtags #pocketpoem and #ShelterInPoems.
• Print a poem from the Poem in Your Pocket Day PDF and draw an image from the poem in the white space, or use the instructions on pages 59-60 of the PDF to make an origami swan.
• Record a video of yourself reading a poem, then share it on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or another social media platform you use.

There is a public flipgrid available for students to post their poems. The link is below. I'll choose someone at random and send them a copy of Eve Ewing's "Electric Arches" as a thank you to those who participate.

Email: sxmiles@apsk12.org
Website: southatlantalibrary.blogspot.com
Phone: 5005
Twitter: @sahsmediacenter