Blog Post #5 - Unit 7 (Ensuring a Sustainable Future)

For this blog post, you will write a persuasive essay about what people should do to ensure a sustainable future. Revise the draft that you started in class on 10/14. You can use some of the ideas from the Unit 7 reading passages, or you can suggest different actions. Your essay can be organized in two different ways:

Option 1: Choose two different actions people can take to ensure a sustainable future. Each body paragraph will explain a different action.

Option 2: Choose one action people can take to ensure a sustainable future. Each body paragraph will explain a different reason for why this action is important. The example essay about becoming a vegetarian on page 160 follows this option for organization.

Please upload your essay to your blog by 10/28.

Midterm Review

The midterm will be on 10/21. There will be four main sections: 1) vocabulary, 2) reading comprehension, 3) reading skills, and 4) language for writing. Please review the following pages:

Vocabulary:
Unit 5 - p. 96 and p. 103
Unit 6 - p. 118 and p. 125
Unit 7 - p. 142 and p. 150

Reading Comprehension:
Unit 5, Lesson A - "The New Face of Tourism"(pp. 97-99)
Unit 5, Lesson B - "Geotourism in Action: Three Success Stories" (pp. 104-106)
Unit 6, Lesson A - "The Poet of the Outback" (pp. 119-121)
Unit 6, Lesson B - "Retracing the Mother Road" (pp. 126-129)
Unit 7, Lesson A - "Straining Our Resources" (pp. 143-145)
Unit 7, Lesson B - "Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Future" (pp. 151-154)

Reading Skills:
Unit 1 - Identifying main and supporting ideas (p. 9)
Unit 2 - Identifying a sequence of events (p. 31)
Unit 3 - Identifying reasons (p. 56)
Unit 4 - Organizing your notes (p. 77)
Unit 5 - Analyzing causes and effects (p. 101)
Unit 6 - Understanding referencing and cohesion (p. 123)
Unit 7 - Interpreting visual information (p. 148)

Language for Writing:
Unit 1 - Making comparisons (pp. 17-18 and p. 22)
Unit 2 - Review of modals of obligation and possibility (pp. 41-42 and p. 46)
Unit 3 - Using the simple past and used to (p. 64 and p. 68)
Unit 4 - Using parallel structure (pp. 87-88 and p. 92)
Unit 5 - Using If..., (then)... (p. 109 and p. 114)
Unit 6 - Adding information with appositive phrases (pp. 132-133 and p. 138)
Unit 7 - Using adjective clauses to add information (p. 157 and p. 162) 

That's it! Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Audio files for Pathways 3 textbook

If you would like to listen to audio files of the reading passages, you can find them here.