1. Day 27- Unit 3

2. Agenda
Journal- self evaluation
Peer edit
Performance Task 2

3. Vocabulary list 7 Barrage: to flood, to overwhelm
Berate: to scold, to Yell at
Collude: to act together though a secret
Conflate: to merge, to put together
Fragment: to break up
Opine: to express your opinion
Promulgate: to proclaim, to express loudly
Substantiate: to give proof to
Veer: to change the direction
Whet: to stimulate, to sharpen

4. Journal Watch your presentations
Evaluate yourselves using the Rubric- give yourself a score.
Remember, your presentation grade will count as 50% of the performance Task 1. The other 50% will come from you paper.

5. Peer Edit
You will review a classmates Individual Research Report using the rubric.
You will then have an opportunity to edit your paper according to the suggestions given to you by a class mate.
You will resubmit the paper.

6. Performance Task 2 35% of Ap Score
Individual written report 2000 words- due
Individual Multimedia Presentation 6-8 minutes
Oral Defense

7. “You think man can destroy the planet. What intoxicating vanity
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.” 
Michael Chrichton – from Jurassic Park