Wolf Slide Narration Project

WOLF PRESENTATION PROJECT

DIRECTIONS: You will write a persuasive speech that addresses the Idaho Wolf Depredation Law, collect pictures of wolves and non-lethal livestock protection, and deliver your speech as in Google Slide Presentation to the class via Google Meet.

INDIVIDUAL TASKS:

1. Write Speech of a persuasive editorial for the removal of the Idaho Wolf Depredation Law

2. Collect images and organize in Google Slides to correspond with script

3. Deliver speech in pairs (divide the speech in two)

Pairs:

1 Maddy and Rye

2 Warren and Zach

3 Lola and Lyla

4 Anna O' and Shea B

CRITERIA FOR THE PERSUASIVE SPEECH

_________You will narrate your slides: write out your argument and read it while clicking through the slides.

_______ Ensure that your photos match up with your argument. For example, if you are addressing livestock kills as "surplus killings," then you need a photo of mauled sheep.

______ address Wolf Depredation Act

______ address non lethal livestock protection

______ address livestock deprivation compensation

________You must address the ranchers', and elk / deer hunters' perspectives.

________You must develop a summary of the counterargument, concede, and converse with your argument AT LEAST TWICE in your narration.

________You must have three facts from the Wolf Management Research web site or others.

_______ You must have three passages from Never Cry Wolf

________You must have THREE CONCEPTS DEFINED:

OTHER WRITERS TO QUOTE AND RESPOND TO IN NARRATION:

Preservationists:

Muir

McPhee (Brower)

Utilitarians:

Pinchot

McPhee (Dominy)

KEY CONCEPTS TO REFERENCE :

1 Anthropocentrism (Emerson, Thoreau, Snyder, Dominy, Pinchot…)

2 Ecocentrism (Thoreau, Berry, Brower…)

3 Human time v Natural time (Thoreau, Berry, Abbey…)

4 Lessons of the Wilderness Experience (The Etiquette of Freedom): Berry and Thoreau and Snyder

5 Anthropomorphism ( Abbey…)

6 Pantheism (Emerson, Thoreau, Muir…)

7 Deified Transcendence (Emerson, Muir…)

8 Organic Transcendence (Thoreau, Berry…)

9 Opportunity Cost (Thoreau): “amount of life I must give up in the choosing of any endeavor”

10 Industrial Tourism (Abbey and Brower…)

11 Idea of Wilderness (Stegner)

12 Societal Self v Natural Self (Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey, Berry, Mowat…)

13 “Indemnity (reparation) in the inviolable order for the world” (if left intact) (Emerson, Thoreau,…)

14 Spiritual and Ecological Interconnectivity in nature (Emerson, Thoreau, Berry, Abbey, Snyder)

15 No nature (Thoreau, Abbey, Snyder)

16 Need to see our limits transgressed (Thoreau, Abbey, Berry, Mowat…)

17 Intrinsic Value of Wilderness (Brower, Abbey, Snyder, Mowat…)

18 Bioregionalism (Snyder, Berry, Mowat...)

19 10 Principles of the Code of Etiquette of Freedom that stems from the wilderness experience (Snyder)

21 Six different perspectives of wolves: mythological, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, scientific, indigenous,ecocentric (Mowat)

22 Wilderness Idea and American Character (Stegner)

23 Thinking Like a Mountain or Ecocentrism (Leopold)

24 Wolves are Territorial, not nomadic (Mowat 80-82) (EBOOK 43)

25 Wolves parent by pack; not promiscuous (Mowat146) (EBOOK 72-73)

26 Carrying Capacity of deer achieved by wolves (Mowat180-2) (EBOOK 88-89)

27 Internal birth control mechanisms in wolves and varies litter sizes based on prey abundance (Mowat)

28 Wolf predation: caches, returned to kills during denning season (Mowat)

29 Wolf diet: 48% rodents (Mowat 227) (EBOOK 108)

30 Native Self v Alien Self (Mowat 246) (EBOOK 117)

31 Trophic Cascade (Mowat 180-2) (EBOOK 88-89)

Outline Guide for Persuasive Editorial

I. Title

A. Introduction

1. Opener: engage the reader with a quote questions, personal experience, or commands / directives

2. Bridge: connects opener to the topic

3. Embedded thesis and plan: address the solution to the issue: indicate cases and threads of argument

B. First Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop the counterargument

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect to a concept

C. 2nd Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop the counterargument

1) Context

2) Condense

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect to a concept

D. First Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop a concept

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect to a concept

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect to a concept

E. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Connect to you a concept

F. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Connect to a concept

G. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Connect to a concept

H. Conclusion

1. React to last point and readdress why you believe in your view / your thesis:

2. List the possible solutions that would follow your argument

3. List what needs to happen in order for your solutions to be successful:

4. Ender: leave reader with one last thought on the issue.