Class Work
1. What topics are you exploring? Remember, this will end up being a cause/effect paper with suggested solutions. You will need to define the problem. In other words, prove that a problem exists. You will also provide a bit of history of the problem. This will include the causes. Because the problem exists, there are effects. You will be sharing those. Finally, you will encourage the reading audience to be part of the solution. You will need to provide suggestions for action that can be done by the average American.
2. Let 's look at a couple of problem/solution essays.
Do you fish? Have you ever gone fishing? To you eat what you catch, or do you catch and release?
Read "Evening the Odds" to consider the possibilities.
3. Take a look at the picture on your table. How could these cute animals possibly be pests?
Discuss, then read "Practical Wildlife Management." (handout only)
A. What is the problem?
B. What is the history of the problem?
C. What solutions are offered?
D. Are all possible solutions likely to be successful?
E. Were you convinced that the best solution was offered?
4. Just for fun, read, "So Mother Earth Had This Boyfriend." This clearly shows that humor can be used to persuade and possibly move one to action! (Handout and
http://www.enotes.com/how-write-problem-solution-essay-how-to/how-write-problem-solution-essay) This originally appeared in Delta Sky Magazine.
5. Something to think about...more nature stuff.
"Forgive My Guilt"
by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Not always sure what things called sins may be,
I am sure of one sin I have done,
It was years ago, and I was a boy,
I lay in the frostflowers with a gun,
The air ran blue as the flowers, I held my breath,
Two birds on golden legs slim as dream things
Ran like quicksilver on the golden sand,
My gun went off, they ran with broken wings
Into the sea, I ran to fetch them in,
But they swam with their heads high out to sea,
They cried like two sorrowful high flutes,
With jagged ivory bones where wings should be.
For days I heard them when I walked that headland
Crying out to their kind in the blue,
The other plovers were going over south
On silver wings leaving these broken two.
The cries went out one day; but I still hear them
Over all the sounds of sorrow in war or peace
I ever heard, time cannot drown them,
Those slender flutes of sorrow never cease.
Two airy things forever denied the air!
I never knew how their lives at last were spilt,
But I have hoped for years all that is wild,
Airy, and beautiful will forgive my guilt.
- Work with a group at your table.
- Decide on the five most important words in the selection.
- Select three words that are new to you. Create your own meaning for these words. Do NOT use a dictionary.
- Now, write a short statement explaining what is going on in the poem.
- Share with the class.
6. In just 16 simple steps, you can plan and write a problem/solution essay.
http://www.enotes.com/how-write-problem-solution-essay-how-to/how-write-problem-solution-essay
7. Let's brainstorm possible topics.
Homework: Continue to explore topics related to nature. Now is the time to select a problem that needs to be solved. L:ook for the history of the problem. Write a paragraph or two explaining the history. Include the source(s). (20 points)
