The Five Cs and the Southwest

Like Arizona, next door, SW New Mexico earns its keep through the Five Cs: copper, cattle, cotton, chiles (citrus in AZ), and climate. (Arizona also has the Canyon--as in the Grand Canyon.)

This article explains how federal subsidies make the drought--the one that has plagued the West as long as you've been alive--worse.

Please read it. The source is scrupulous. No profit-making, vested interest supports ProPublica. In this way it's a departure from all other media. Advertisers have zero influence on what the reporters cover and write. ProPublica reporters can follow the money in their reporting because what they find will not cost them their jobs.

Holy Crop: how federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West

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Audio Version of The Perfect Storm

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Summer opportunities...

Click on the following links for opportunities for high school students, then respond in your One Note bell work section.

From the Bow Seat http://fromthebowseat.org/index.php

New York Times Academy

https://nytedu.com/pre-collegiate/nyc-summer-academy/

Perfect Storm Quiz I

Ugh. Sick. Sorry. Shakespeare and Iambic Pentameter Still Matter

1. In pairs, watch and listen to this short, five and a half minutes, video about iambic pentameter.

2. In your Pearson OneNote folder on a page entitled Iambic Pentameter Step 1, write at least one line of iambic pentameter describing your favorite breakfast. 10-15 minutes.

3. Watch Julius Caesar.

4. Share and add to the Scene Log--three scenes per person. Make sure to share with those who haven't had a chance.

4. Follow the script on your computers to save paper. The link to the PDF is in OneNote, here, and also in the post below this one.

Someone in each class may need to show/read this plan to the substitute. Thanks for your cooperation.

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