Teaching reading.

Keyla Castro /Rolando ContrerasMethodology II

Teaching Reading

Environmental sound

Patchwork Lesson: An Ecology of Houses

Predictions: Advantages and disadvantages of living in the countriside.

Instructions: describe advantages and disaddvantages according to you kwnoledge about the theme.

Living in the countryside

Advantages Disadvantages

According to the text, identify the statement if it is and advantage (A) or disavtanges (D).

1. When I think of nature, I conjure up an image of a landscape unadulterated by human presence.

2. The image doesn't include people in either their make-shift encampment or permanent residence the same way we might picture a bird in its nest.

3. We are currently facing enormous environmental problems.

4.  Native Americans were forcefully removed from the landscape and put onto reservations.

5. Since the 1980s, the primary cause of the changing landscape in the United States has been suburban sprawl

6. Selection in this environment has been for increasing profits and economic growth as opposed to a strict biological interpretation of fitness.

7. Americans fled the cities for the suburbs. 8. Globally, sprawl has contributed to global warming due to

increased emissions from cars, which are the primary mode of transportation outside of urban areas, and increases in energy consumption for the heating and cooling of spacious suburban houses

9. A more contemporary version of nature makes humans an integral part of it.

An Ecology of HousesGuest blog post by Kevin Burke.

1 When I think of nature, I conjure up an image of a landscape unadulterated by human presence. In my mind, I am standing in an open grassland with a pristine forest in the not-too-distant background and I hear birds chirping and mosquitoes buzzing in my ear. Others may picture thick tropical foliage where bright flowers pop out against a background of varying greens, set to a soundtrack of running water that snakes through seemingly uncharted territory. The exact image probably varies from person to person, but I think it's a safe bet that humans are conspicuously absent from these landscapes, or, at most, they are visualized as a few hunter-gathers roaming a forest in search of food. The image doesn't include people in either their make-shift encampment or permanent residence the same way we might picture a bird in its nest. Nature, it is thought, is not our houses, nor does it exist in our backyards or along the banks of a polluted or drying-up river.

2 Despite the fact that we are currently facing enormous environmental problems, we have inherited an image of nature invented by 19th century American romantics, who were writing not long after Native Americans were forcefully removed from the landscape and put onto reservations. This is one way in which nature has been constructed - in our imagination. However, nature is (and always has been everywhere humans have ever lived) at least partially constructed by human activity in a very real sense, and this process has (and has had) implications for human evolution by altering the process ofnatural selection.

3 This process, which is called ecological niche construction, views an organism as embedded in an environment that the organism itself is capable of altering. These modifications then change selection pressures on that organism, and they change selection pressures on other evolving organisms too. Since the 1980s, the primary cause of the changing landscape in the United States has been suburban sprawl - i.e. the construction of strip malls, roads, and, particularly housing along the outskirts of cities in a seemingly haphazard and unplanned fashion]. Selection in this environment has been for increasing profits and economic growth as opposed to a strict biological interpretation of fitness. In many ways, it is Darwinian, but is itnatural (in terms of ‘Natural Selection')?

4 Whenever construction of this sort is mentioned, the word economics is usually mentioned in the same breath. This is probably more so now than ever, especially with the recent downturn in the economy that resulted from the collapse of the housing market, whose boom and subsequent bust was caused by speculative trading on Wall Street. Ecology usually isn't mentioned in this regard, and I doubt the trading floors of Wall Street enter into the image of a fictitious nature for anyone. However, it is interesting to note that the words economy and ecology share the same word part, eco-, which actually comes from the ancient Greek word oikos, meaning house.

5Starting in the 1950s, major US industrial cities saw a decrease in population size as middle class (primarily white) Americans fled the cities for the suburbs. While some cities (such as New York) maintained their population as the US economy shifted from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism, many cities continued to lose residents, who moved into newly constructed houses outside of the city. Land that was previously used for farming or was covered with forest has increasingly been converted to residential neighborhoods, which has a major impact on the local and global environment.

6Globally, sprawl has contributed to global warming due to increased emissions from cars, which are the primary mode of transportation outside of urban areas, and increases in energy consumption for the heating and cooling of spacious suburban houses. This consumption is also a primary driver behind resource extraction including oil drilling, hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. ‘fracking') for natural gas, and coal mining - all of which have major implications for the local environments from which they are taken.Probably the most notable consequence of resource extraction for local environments is water contamination. Unfortunately, the number of cases is steadily increasing, but one only needs to recall the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster from 2010 to get a feel for the scale of environmental contamination we are talking about. Besides indirectly causing contamination, sprawl is directly linked to water depletion. For example, water supply is not only becoming a concern for cities in deserts such as Las Vegas, which saw major development throughout the 90s and early 2000s, but also other metropolitan areas that are experiencing major population growth. As a case in point, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area in North Carolina experienced a drought in 2007-08 that was exacerbated by the increased pressure on water supplies due to residential development.

7In light of the environmental problems we are facing, it is necessary that we rethink what natural selection is. Instead of being analogous to Adam Smith's invisible hand, we must realize that there are very real hands at work that construct the environment and alter the course of evolution for humans and non-humans alike. This construction, however, should not only be for short-term economic growth. The romantic image of nature that we have inherited sees nature as some entity detached from humans. This view is (and probably always has been) a bit anachronistic, only really existing in the time before modern Homo sapiens evolved and dispersed around the globe. A more contemporary version of nature makes humans an integral part of it. I don't mean to suggest that we should completely forget romanticism and reduce nature's beauty to simple (and selfish) utilitarian calculations. I am, admittedly, a bit of a romantic myself who loves a good ramble in the woods every now and again. It is simply a reminder that part of what is so beautiful about a clean river and expansive forests is that we depend on them. We simultaneously construct and are constructed by the environment; we envelop and are enveloped by it. If the environment we build for ourselves is only for the short term, then that's how long it'll last.

Inferences. Working in pairs. From the paragraph chosen, infer the main idea.

Paragraph 3:

This process, which is called ecological niche construction, views an organism as embedded in an environment that the organism itself is capable of altering. These modifications then change selection pressures on that organism, and they change selection pressures on other evolving organisms too. Since the 1980s, the primary cause of the changing landscape in the United States has been suburban sprawl - i.e. the construction of strip malls, roads, and, particularly housing along the outskirts of cities in a seemingly haphazard and unplanned fashion]. Selection in this environment has been for increasing profits and economic growth as opposed to a strict biological interpretation of fitness. In many ways, it is Darwinian, but is it natural (in terms of ‘Natural Selection')?

Create a situation.Each group have to create an specific situation about the text. For example:

“ Joshua and his family live in Santiago, and they are tired of the city lifestyle. Fortunately, Joshua’s mom has the possibility to applied for a job at Gaete’s Company, located 200 miles from their town, at the countryside. Unfortunately, the distance is too long so the have to move to there and buy a car to go to the place and they also should pay for a moving truck. They’re going to make a couple of back and forth trips…

After finished, each group should expose their history to the class.

Concept Map. Create a concept map refering to the causes and consequenses of Globally Spraw.

Global Spraw

CausesConsequens

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Scrabble: is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary.

Instructions: -Team work.-The class will be divided into 2 group, each group will receive a printed gameboand with a vast amount of letters. Each team will receive 10 concepts.-after selected the synonyms, the teams have to search them on the dictionary to make sure the words chosen are correct.

1. Grassland2. Pristine3. Background4. Inherted5. Ecological6. Embedded7. Organism8. Suburban9. Outskirts10. Downturn11. Fictitious12. Residents13. Sprawl14. Cooling15. Resource16. Contamination17. Depletion18. Detached19. anachronistic20. Ramble

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Reading Comprehension questions

POEMS: Home they brought her Warrior Dead / To the QueenInformation about the author

Alfred Tennyson is one of the most well-loved Victorian poets.   At the age of twelve he wrote a

6,000-line epic poem. His father, the Reverend George Tennyson, tutored his sons in classical and

modern languages. He and his brother Charles published Poems by Two Brothers. Although the

poems in the book were mostly juvenilia, they attracted the attention of the "Apostles," an

undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Hallam. Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical and in

1832 he published a second volume entitled simply Poems. Some reviewers condemned these

books as "affected" and "obscure."  Tennyson's Poems in two volumes was a

tremendous critical and popular success. He became one of Britain's most popular poets.

At the age of 41, Tennyson had established himself as the most popular poet of the Victorian era.

Home they Brought Her Warrior Dead

Literary devices: also known as “figures of speech”

SimileMetaphorHyperbolePersonificationAlliterationAllusionImageryOnomatopoeiaCharacterization

ForeshadowingFree verse

DialectFlashback

Point of viewIrony

HumorSatire

Suspense

To the QueenTo the Queen is a poem extracted from ‘Idylls of the King’ which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom. The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Modred.Tennyson's descriptions of nature are derived from observations of his own surroundings, collected over the course of many years. The dramatic narratives are not an epic either in structure or tone, but derive elegiac sadness from the idylls of Theocritus. Idylls of the King is often read as an allegory of the societal conflicts in Britain during the mid-Victorian era.

1 O loyal to the royal in thyself,

And loyal to thy land, as this to thee--Bear witness, that rememberable day,When, pale as yet, and fever-worn, the PrinceWho scarce had plucked his flickering life againFrom halfway down the shadow of the grave,Past with thee through thy people and their love,And London rolled one tide of joy through allHer trebled millions, and loud leagues of manAnd welcome! witness, too, the silent cry,The prayer of many a race and creed, and clime--Thunderless lightnings striking under seaFrom sunset and sunrise of all thy realm,And that true North, whereof we lately heardA strain to shame us 'keep you to yourselves;So loyal is too costly! friends--your loveIs but a burthen: loose the bond, and go.‘

2 Is this the tone of empire? here

the faithThat made us rulers? this, indeed, her voiceAnd meaning, whom the roar of HougoumontLeft mightiest of all peoples under heaven? What shock has fooled her since, that she should speakSo feebly? wealthier--wealthier--hour by hour!The voice of Britain, or a sinking land,Some third-rate isle half-lost among her seas?There rang her voice, when the full city pealedThee and thy Prince! The loyal to their crownAre loyal to their own far sons, who loveOur ocean-empire with her boundless homesFor ever-broadening England, and her throneIn our vast Orient, and one isle, one isle,That knows not her own greatness: if she knowsAnd dreads it we are fallen. --But thou, my Queen,

3 Not for itself, but through thy

living loveFor one to whom I made it o'er his graveSacred, accept this old imperfect tale,New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul,Ideal manhood closed in real man,Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost,Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak,And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or himOf Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's, oneTouched by the adulterous finger of a timeThat hovered between war and wantonness,And crownings and dethronements: take withalThy poet's blessing, and his trust that HeavenWill blow the tempest in the distance backFrom thine and ours: for some are scared, who mark,Or wisely or unwisely, signs of storm,Waverings of every vane with every wind,And wordy trucklings to the transient hour,

4 And fierce or careless looseners of

the faith,And Softness breeding scorn of simple life,Or Cowardice, the child of lust for gold, Or Labour, with a groan and not a voice,Or Art with poisonous honey stolen from France,And that which knows, but careful for itself,And that which knows not, ruling that which knowsTo its own harm: the goal of this great worldLies beyond sight: yet--if our slowly-grownAnd crowned Republic's crowning common-sense,That saved her many times, not fail--their fearsAre morning shadows huger than the shapesThat cast them, not those gloomier which foregoThe darkness of that battle in the West,Where all of high and holy dies away.