THINKING PASSAGES: GLOBAL WARMING

The three passages on global warming offer very different views on the validity of the concept. You should answer the questions at the end of the section to help them understand each article’s argument completely. Please look up the background of each writer and explain how that background might influence how they view the topic of global warming.
The issue of the reliability of sources and the way source material is being presented is also a topic for fiction. You need to evaluate the accuracy of information they gain through characters’ dialogue in a short story, for example. Employing a variety of standards or criteria may be a challenge, because the number of sources from which to gain information is limited. Some of the articles listed in the bibliography are intended to offer students additional practice in assessing the usefulness and reliability of sources. A good way to demonstrate this is with the use of a first-person narrative such as a Tom Wingfield’s famous closing speech in the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Explain the storyline of the play to students, then have them read the monologue. Ask them to consider where the character of Tom might be altering the truth and why.