Theme Overall message about life GENERAL STORY EVENT SPECIFIC

Questions to Consider How do the rules of our society: 1. Impact the decisions we make? 2. Affect how we feel? 3. Shape who we are as individuals? 4. Change how we think about the world and ourselves?

1. How do the things in this image compare with our reality? 2. What do you think the future will be like? 3. Why do we naturally wonder about what the future will be like? 4. How does thinking about the future help us today? Drawn in What artist believed Earth would look like in the year 2020

Plot/Story Top layer: message is easy to access Message about Human Nature Criticism or warning to society Middle layer: Have to work harder to find this Bottom layer: Some people never make it to this place!

“The Last Dog” Written in the 1990’s by Katherine Patterson

Katherine Paterson Background Born in China in the year 1932 to U.S. Missionaries At age 5, her family was forced to leave China during the Japanese invasion of 1937 The family moved to Richmond, Virginia for a short while before returning to China to live in Shanghai In 1940, the family was forced to flee again, this time to North Carolina Her family moved 18 times between 1937 and 1950 because of the war in China and her Father’s job

Chinese Civil War Nationalists Vs. Communists

Katherine Paterson Background Katherine Paterson always felt like an outsider, because she was always moving When she arrived to the U.S., she says she felt “poor, small, and foreign” on the playground, even though she was technically an American She claims that being an outsider has made her a better writer

The Last Dog: Science Fiction Combines real and scientific information, with elements from author’s imagination Usually takes place in the future The power of imagining the future

Earth in the Future The Earth has been poisoned by pollution and global warming In this future, the world is uninhabitable, so people live in a dome The society in this story is only slightly different from our own

HOW GLOBAL WARMING WORKS Fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 )

The Sun’s energy passes through the car’s windshield. This energy (heat) is trapped inside the car and cannot pass back through the windshield, causing the inside of the car to warm up. Example of the Greenhouse Effect

EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING Increased Temperature Habitat Damage and Species Affected Changes in Water Supply Rising Sea Level

PORTAGE GLACIER Alaska Photos: NOAA Photo Collection and Gary Braasch – WorldViewOfGlobalWarming.org

COLORADO RIVER June 2002Dec 2003

Global Atmospheric Concentration of CO 2

Annotating Only the important details Details that help to answer the questions Something confusing that you’d like to come back to (?)

Leaning Goal Analyze the text effectively: Make inferences using logic and reason Cite evidence from the text to support your reasoning Elaborate on ideas in order to communicate more effectively