Silent Spring

For the next three weeks we will be reading 

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (click here for the pdf)

We will complete the reading in class, along with the audio book. Working to identify vocabulary and answer at least one major question each day. 

Our DOLs will be essays or reading quizzes everyday, which follow a class discussion of the ten pages covered. 

Week one questions:
 

1.Why does the author feel that insecticides should be called biocides?

2. How did World War II contribute to the growth of insecticides?

3. How do chemists produce the cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride from methane?

4. For what purpose was DDT originally used?

 
Read together. 
Write a one sentence summary of each page you read.
Answer the questions above.

Do not take the papers with you, leave them for the next class.

Good luck. Take a picture of any pages you do not read, and finish at home (or pull up the pdf linked above). There will be a reading quiz at the start of class Tuesday.

Stay tuned for pictures of Arya. She should be  coming some time today! Sorry. I miss you, and can't wait to hear your Spring Break stories.