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Big Idea: What does food tell us about ourselves.

Learning Target: How should we "eat responsibly"?

Reading: You will read your independent reading book for ten minutes. You should finish your next book by March 25th.

Agenda:

1. Essay Topic: 
1. In response to the many articles you read in this module, write an essay in which you argue how you can "eat more responsibly."
2. Today you will get a grade for having at least two body paragraphs that are 8-10 sentences in length. For your final grade on the essay you will need:
1. Two body paragraphs if you want a C+/B-, three body paragraphs for B+/A-, and more than three paragraphs for an A/A+.

Tools for writing body paragraphs:

1. Each body paragraph must have one quote from one of the sources we have read..
1. Expert’s (or publication’s) Name), a (credentials that suggest validity), (choose one: argues, presents, details, theorizes, refutes, challenges, exposes, (anything but “says,” “states,” or “claims”)) (flow “into the less than 13 words you intend on quoting” (Citation)); however, it must be admitted that (insert a point of concession in relation to the sources argument).
2. Example: Wendell Berry, an American cultural critic, exposes that for the American consumer "food is pretty much an abstract idea" (Berry 4).
2. Write one or two body paragraphs. Remember a paragraph has three parts. Your longest part should be your evidence. Your final two sentences should connect your evidence to your first premise.
1. Problem-solution pattern
1. Many people are ignorant of what chemicals are added to their food to keep it fresh. Frequently, I eat food that tastes good, giving no thought to what is in it and not truly taking the time to enjoy it. If I make my own food, then I can avoid many of these harmful substances and take pleasure in eating something I prepared myself.
1. Cookies- trans fats
2. Amatriciana - enjoy it because I know all the ingredients
2. Choice - benefit
1. If I make my own food, I am more aware of what ingredients are being added. Also, if I prepare it myself I have to put effort into my meal, and human beings always find more pleasure in an activity that requires effort.
1. Amatriciana- taste each ingredient
2. Cookies - I can add real sugar instead of HFC or trans fats.

Articles we read about food:

1. Pleasures of Eating and When a Crop Becomes King

3. Two articles about organic food

Success Criteria:

I can make connections between important ideas on the same topic.

Homework:

1. None