English 101 Fall 2018 Prof. Bob Lazaroff

Our Connected Landscape

Inthefallof2012,SuperstormSandydestroyedthishomeontheNewJerseyshoreline.Howmightthisdevastationrelateto

climatechange? In this assignment, you will craft an essay using the documentary Chasing Ice (which we will be viewing in class) and at least three other sources from the options below. In the essay, discuss what photographer James Balog discovers in the film and how the melting glaciers and melting ice in the arctic affects our planet. Your other chosen resources should connect with this topic.

• Goodell, “Obama Takes on Climate Change: The Rolling Stone Interview” (under “Readings” on blog).

• Any article collected under the New York Time’s “Global Warming and Climate Change” (on the homepage of blog).

• An article (newspaper, magazine, or journal) found in the NCC library database.

We will continue to review MLA format in class, because you will need to cite your sources and create a list of Works Cited in the paper. We started this work with the previous paper. We will be reading, viewing, and reviewing material in the next four weeks in class to help you with this project. You will be developing your own thesis, then use information found in your research to help prove it in the body of the essay. The paper needs to be 1000 words, minimum. Because of the complexity of this assignment, and the fact that we are spending a lot of class time reviewing, this will be worth more than other papers (as indicated on the class information sheet) Dates Rough draft to class: Wednesday. Wed. Dec. 12th. Works Cited pages will be collected in the beginning of the period. Final draft: Wed. Dec. 19th.