Energy & Place
Essential Questions:
1. How does energy production impact* place?
2. How does your sense of place**, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs influence your perception and decisions regarding energy production
2. How does your sense of place**, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs influence your perception and decisions regarding energy production
Sense of Place Essay
Take Action Project
Reflection
For this project, we learned about the environmental ethics and impacts of our energy usage. We learned about the health hazards that happen within coal towns and uranium mills. We also learned about many of the environmental ethics and how to apply them to different situations. We then figured out which ethics resonate with us and created an essay or story to represent our sense of place and environmental ethic. Finally, we created a Take Action Project that would hopefully help the community.
For my Sense of Place essay, I had to figure out what I wanted to represent about myself that still related to my environmental ethic. I wanted my essay to represent the peace I felt when I was away from people and close to nature. This was hard for me because I just wanted to tell people how it made me feel, instead of showing, through descriptive language, how it made me feel. The inspiration journals we did helped me learn how to show, not tell. For a couple of the assignments we had to describe where we were and how we felt. This helped the most. When I was lacking inspiration, I went to the place I was describing and wrote down how I felt, I was then able to turn it into a very descriptive writing piece.
I am very proud of my writing assignment. I was able to use descriptive writing to represent what I was feeling, this is something I have always struggled with but felt that I excelled in this year. This can be seen in this example;
Silence, all around me. Not a single animal is to be heard. No birds are singing, no crickets are chirping. There, the wind whistles through the trees, whispering words unknown to humans. My music still softly plays in the background, yet my ears tune it out, listening to nature’s music instead. The breeze feels cold against my bare legs. The sun brings warmth for my arms. I am neither cold, nor warm. I simply exist.
This example is one of the many examples that ensured that I gained full credit on the descriptive writing on the portion of the rubric. This was a writing piece that I felt I did an excellent job on and I am very proud of the final result.