Farmer in Chief
Follow this link to a very interesting article by Michael Pollan (author of the "Omnivores Dilemma"). He is the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.”).
This article is an open letter to President Obama and highlights many of the major topics surrounding food, our health and the health of the environment. The beginning talks about some of the problems we are facing (of course) and how we got here (very interesting if not a bit scary) but then goes into thoughts on how we can affect change.
Your assignment is to read and annotate the article in preparation for Socratic Seminar on Wednesday. If you choose to read it online, I will be looking to see the notes you have taken in your journal; if you print it out I will be looking to see that you have good notations and highlighting.
In both cases, I really need to see you have taken the time to interact with the text and have not only highlighted interesting thoughts and facts but have also asked questions. You are also responsible for writing three discussion questions that could be used to start the socratic seminar.
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I thought that this was a very interesting article John. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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