Persuasive Slide Documentary Projects

Persuasive Slide Documentary Projects

Directions:

Write a script of a persuasive "video editorial" on either the Boulder WhiteClouds or the Wolf Depredation Act in Idaho.

Your writing should correspond to specific images you have collected on A GOOGLE PRESENTATION.

As you record your persuasive "video editorial" on www.present.me , you will click through the images to have a pictorial representation of your argument.

Create ONE slide presentation of photos and passages that creates a persuasive argument for policy leaders:

1 ON BOULDER WHITECLOUDS LAND MANAGEMENT POLICY: choose one land policy option among four: SNRA, CIEDRA, Boulder WhiteClouds National Monument, or NREPA.

Address all four in your persuasive argumentation.

END WITH THE LAND MANAGEMENT POLICY THAT YOU BELIEVE IS BEST!

OR

2 ON WOLF MANAGEMENT IN IDAHO: Address the Wolf Depredation Act

-address Wolf Depredation Act,

non lethal livestock protection,

livestock deprivation compensation,

carrying capacity of wolves (Mowat)...

CRITERIA FOR THE PERSUASIVE VIDEO EDITORIAL

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

_________Ensure that your photos match up with your argument. For example, if you are addressing motorized vehicle use, then you should have a photo of an ATV. If you are addressing livestock kills as "surplus killings," then you need a photo of mauled sheep.

________You must address all of four proposals for the White Clouds / You must address the wolf advocates', 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 Boulder White Clouds Research / Wolf Management Research web site or others.

_______ You must have three passages from the environmental writers we have read AND THREE CONCEPTS

DEFINED:

-Gary Snyder must be quoted for Boulder White Clouds and

-Farley Mowat must be quoted for Wolf Management.

OTHER WRITERS TO QUOTE AND RESPOND TO IN NARRATION:

Preservationists:

Emerson

Thoreau

Muir

Abbey

McPhee (Brower)

Snyder

Berry

Mowat

Leopold

Stegner

Lopez

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…)

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…)

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

18 Bioregionalism (Snyder, Berry...)

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

20 Carrying Capacity of wolves (Mowat)

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)