Final Email Exchange

The question for the last penpal email exchange is:

Should the manufacture of DDT be completely banned world wide? Why or why not?

HIST students are initiating the exchange. Please try to email your Science One partner by Monday. The emails are due Friday, Dec 3.

This will be the last email exchange.

For those who didn't attend class today, you'll need to do a little research on the current issues around DDT use. The following key words might be helpful: malaria, Michael Crichton, Stockholm Convention, Sheila
Watt-Cloutier, Iqualuit Declaration, POPs.

videos for Nov. 12 and readings for the following week

Before the class on Thurs [Nov 12], please watch the following Youtube videos:
Trailer of “Free Willy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bSTWtAo0U
Trailer of “Fly Away Home”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5iik_wiK0
Lemming sequence from “White Wilderness”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY

Next week we will start Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Please read chapters 1-6 and 15-17.

Assignments for ALL Tutorials Nov. 5-6

ALL students--for this week's tutorial, please turn in the following:
--Please compose a research question that you want to address in your essay (so you would need to know your topic).
--Then put together at least four sources (with, at the minimum, one book and one peer-reviewed article).
--Finally, for Tamara's tutorial students only: bring on a separate sheet info on a person, event, invention or work of art that lived/happened/was invented or created during Darwin's lifetime (1809-1882).

Readings for Week of Nov. 9-13, 2009

Please read the following sections in Wild Animals I Have Known:
the "Note to the Reader" and the stories of "Lobo", "Silverspot", "Raggylug", "The Springfield Fox" and "Redruff"