2016 APES Summer Assignment

During the summer, you are expected to read/view the following four works:

  1. READ-Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008)
  2. READ-Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999)

While reading/ viewing these works, please type the answer to the following prompts-

  1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded-Why wasHot, Flat, and Crowdeda required reading for Environmental Science? Support your answer.
  2. Diversity of Life-After readingThe Diversity of Life,what are the three most important ideas to remember for use in this year’s class?Support your answer.

When you receive your class schedule (~August 20th), please visit your AP Environmental Science Teacher’s webpage (located on the NSD HS website) and submit your email address on the google survey. You will then be emailed a link to that teacher’s class discussion. For each of the summer works, there will be a discussion post.

Your assignment will be to-

  1. Paste your response to the correct discussion post
  2. Reflect on other responses under each discussion post.

*Use the rubric below to determine whether you met the assignment criteria.

For each work-

Objective / Exceedscourse expectations / Meetscourse expectations / Approaches courseExpectations / Does not meet courseExpectations
1. To supportreflections oncontent(Taking into consideration responses to all four discussion questions)(Max. Point-60 points) / Reflects on content through a posting that clearly references respective summer reading assignment while bringing in additional resources and asking additional questions. (15 Points) / Reflects on content through a posting that accurately references
respective summer reading assignment (14 Points) / Reflects on summer reading assignments. However, response does not provide evidence that accurately references respective
summer reading assignment. (10 Points) / No Post (0 Points)
2. To engage in the online learning community andextends the onlineconversation(Taking into consideration how you reflect on other learner’s responses in all four discussions.)(Max. Point-40 points) / Substantive and timely responses to posted messages and responses from other learners supported by references from summer readings. (10 Points) / Responds in a substantive manner to a posted message and/or response from another learner supported by references from summer readings. (9 Points) / responds to a posted message and/or response from another learner (5 Points) / No response (0 Points)

Objective One-For each work, a maximum of fifteen points will be awarded for each post (60 points total.)

Ex. Bob Ballard references summer readings in discussions one and two along with explaining personal research pertaining to the two discussions. He would receive fifteen points for each. However, he responds to the third discussion without referencing the reading and receives only ten points. He does not post a response to the fourth discussion and receives zero points. Bob’s total score for objective one is 40 points out of the total 60.

Objective Two-For each work, a maximum of 10 points will be awarded for each post (40 points total.)

Ex. Rachel Carson responds to Bob Ballard’s Discussion one and two Posts, referencing the specifics from her summer readings. She would receive 9 points each. She does not respond to anyone’s third discussion posts and receives zero points. For the final discussion post, Rachel not only responds to Bob with appropriate references, she also responds to Aldo with an appropriate reference. She would receive 10 points for that thread. Her total for this objective would be 28 points.