ENGLISH IN ACTION IV Stage 4 - Creative Expressions
Welcome to your last Stage of high school !!! You have done a great job so far, keep up the hard work for this last portion of the semester. In this last stage, we will finish the last two teyts of your Inside Reading book, two maga{ine articles about anthropology, which you will then analy{e to learn how to write your own maga{ine article.
CONTENT Science magazine article Easter’s End by Jared Diamond - Pre-Unit Video - Reading with Audio - Reading Skill - Vocabulary Activities Article from New Scientist Magazine A Monumental Collapse? - Before You Read - Reading with Audio - Reading Skill - Vocabulary Activities Magazine Article
Easter Island By observing the wonderful giant monoliths on Easter Island, it is easy to imagine a once thriving society. However, this island is an example of the decay of a civilization. ● In a document, organize in a chart three examples in history of collapsed civilizations and the main factors that contributed to their demise. ● Watch the following video to see how Easter Island looks like and to know a bit about efforts to preserve its remains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xrXmz6Las
Easter Island Now that you have watched the video, reflect and write a short paragraph answering the following questions. ● How do you think the civilization moved these giant statues? ● If they carved more than 900 statues, they must have had an important significance. What do you think the statues represent? ● The statues now rest in a desolate island as witnesses of a civilization that Dear tourists -- keep your dang fingers out of our dang noses. Love, the moai. disappeared. Write some possible causes that led to the decay of the Rapa Nui.
Easter’s End In this article from a science magazine, biologist and geographer Jared Diamond gives background on the culture, history, and mystery of Easter Island. ● Open your book Inside Reading 4 on Unit 10, page 146. ● Use the link to follow the reading Easter’s End . To practice pronunciation, pause after every paragraph and read it aloud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMte1sTzVgg
Easter’s End READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES ● Open your book Inside Reading 4 on Unit 10, page 149. If you don’t have the book, copy the answers of the exercises in your notebook or a document. A. Mark each sentence as T (true) or F (false) according to the information in Easter’s End . Use a dictionary to understand new words. __1. The author Jared Diamond blames human behavior for the destruction of Easter Island’s ecosystem. __2. Diamond believes that the culture that originally inhabited Easter Island left once deforestation was complete. __3. Diamond believes that the statues could not have been built unless the islanders had very sophisticated and modern tools. __4. The excavation of garbage heaps suggests that the islanders became more desperate in their search for food. __5. Diamond feels that modern cultures, due to greater knowledge of history and science, are immune to the kinds of ecological disasters suffered on Easter Island.
Easter’s End READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES B. Scan the reading to find the sentences paraphrased below. In the blank, write the first few words of the original sentence. 1. Given these advantages, we might expect Easter Island to be a tiny utopia, a society free from the difficulties of other civilizations. In theory, these blessings should have made… (lines 15 -18) 2. The people on the island had no contact with people from other places and did not know that there were other humans in the world. _________________________________________ 3. The difficulty of accounting for the presence of these statues was immediately apparent. _________________________________________ 4. Scientist studies show that when the first settlers arrived, Easter Island was not a barren, empty land. _________________________________________ 5. The land could no longer support the political and religious institutions that the community needed. _________________________________________
Reading Skill How did I get here? Identifying Multiple Causes Most times, single events have multiple causes. From breakups to cancer to the end of a civilization, it is important to analyze several factors. As mentioned on Unit 10, to establish that an event or condition is a cause, we need to provide a rationale . To be convincing, we need to show that our reasoning is valid and that our explanation is plausible. • On page 150, answer exercise A. The author argues that the statues on Easter Island were built by the civilization that once lived there. Provide a rationale to support the conditions in the table.
Reading Skill Identifying Multiple Causes • In your document, answer exercise B, question 2. Identify multiple causes to the question below organizing the information in a fishbone diagram . According to Jared Diamond, what factors contributed to the collapse of the population on Easter Island? Find factors in the article and provide a rationale for each. To learn how to create a fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram, you can watch the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwfgx0dOYvE
Vocabulary Activities • Before you work on the activities in your book, play the memory game found in https://www.educaplay.com/learning-resources/5372356-vocabulary_easter_s_end.html (Vocabulary Easter’s End) to practice and understand the vocabulary for this unit. Write down in your notebook the meaning of the words you had difficulties with. • Answer the vocabulary activities A & B in your inside Reading book, pages 151 & 152.
Vocabulary Activities C. The word derive has two meanings: 1. something coming from another source. 2. the origin of a word. Find out what these things are derived from. Go online to research and write your findings. 1. diamonds 2. plastic 3. silk 4. cocoa 5. the word salary
A Monumental Collapse? BEFORE YOU READ Jared Diamond claims that the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization was mainly caused by an environmental crisis, either by their own action or external factors. Although throughout the decades, other theories have emerged, we can relate to the Rapa Nui because humanity nowadays is committing ECOCIDE . Before you read, write in your notebook your own definition of ECOCIDE and provide examples of how humans are intentionally harming the environment. Do you think ECOCIDE should be an international crime?
A Monumental Collapse? This article from New Scientist magazine discusses the work of several researchers who question the validity of Jared Diamond’s conclusions about Easter Island. ● Open your book Inside Reading 4 on Unit 10, page 153. ● Use the link to follow the reading A Monumental Collapse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQkX7yqpERw To practice pronunciation, pause after every paragraph and read it aloud. ● After reading the text, answer the Reading Comprehension exercises, page 156.
A Monumental Collapse? READING COMPREHENSION A. Mark each sentence as T (true) or F (false) according to the information in A Monumental Collapse? Use a dictionary to understand new words. __1. Hunt and Lipo doubt that the statue building would necessitate a large population. __2. Hunt and Lipo do not acknowledge that deforestation occurred on easter Island. __3. Most researchers, including Diamond, deny that the population of Easter Island declined in the 19th century. __4. Peiser, Hunt, and Lipo delay the collapse of the society to after the late 1700s. __5. The author of this article believes that Hunt and Lipo have raised serious doubts about Jared Diamond’s account.
A Monumental Collapse? READING COMPREHENSION B. Scan oth readings of this unit for the answers to these questions. 1. According to Hunt and Lip’s research, when was the earliest settlement of Easter Island? 2. Is this date earlier or later than Diamond’s date? 3. When was deforestation complete according to Hunt and Lipo? 4. When did the slave raids begin? 5. Did the article by Diamond mention the slave raids?
Reading Skill - Synthesizing information from Several Sources On the last Reading Skill, you learned that many situations can have multiple roots to explain them. It is common and acceptable to have many possible reasons for a situation, even if different sources disagree with each other. In his article, Jared Diamond claims that the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization was mainly caused by an environmental crisis. However, some scientists argue Diamond’s claims and provide their own theories. Disagreements are useful because they make us analyze all the evidence available and polish our own ideas. Resolving these disagreements will make us come closer to the truth. One handy tool to see all views on a topic is to compare the sources in a table. ● Answer exercises A & B on page 157. Identify the ideas each author has about the Easter island civilization in the table to see in which theories they disagree and agree.
Now that you know the meaning of the vocabulary words, find Vocabulary an image to represent each term and paste them in the boxes. CEASE CITE COLLAPSE CONCEIVE CONFIRM CULTURE DENY DERIVE
Now that you know the meaning of the vocabulary words, find Vocabulary an image to represent each term and paste them in the boxes. NEVERTHELESS QUOTE SUPPLEMENT TRANSPORT (verb) VALID WIDESPREAD ● To conclude your comprehension of the vocabulary terms, answer the vocabulary activities A, B & C on pages 158 - 160.
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