Should We Eat Less Meat? Seminar Notebook
A two-week notebook for the meat seminar with in-doc Table of Contents, day-by-day prompts, embedded participation rubric, and internal anchor links so students can navigate without leaving the document. Download the .docx, upload to Google Drive, then "Open with Google Docs."
Title & Overview
Should We Eat Less Meat?
Cover page with the driving question, the "Seminar Digital Notebook" eyebrow, a two-paragraph orientation to the two-week arc, and the Perusall + notebook due-date reminders. Perusall is due by Monday of Week 2 at 11:59 PM AZ.
Navigation
Table of Contents
Ten internal anchor links — one per section — so students can jump to any day without scrolling. Each ToC entry has a one-line description. Every section in the notebook has a "← Back to Table of Contents" link at the bottom.
Project Overview
Project Overview
Driving question, two-week framing, Seminar Rules of Engagement (student and Guide commitments), and Curriculum Connections (Science, Math, Social Studies, ELA, World Languages). This is the reference students return to when they need to remember why we're doing this.
Week 1 · Monday
Required Reading
Three required Perusall articles (Vox, NYT, Time) and three optional extensions (Future Perfect podcast, NatGeo, History.com). Each title is hyperlinked to the source. Reference page only — no student response required.
Week 1 · Tuesday
Mindful Moment + Consideration of Data
Free-write on personal eating habits, then full-class walkthrough of slides 3–8 with the storytelling lens. Closes with a two-fact analysis where students cite slide numbers and explain how design carried bias.
Week 1 · Wednesday
Beef Production: Grass-Fed vs. Factory
Watch the production video together (play until 10:19) and respond to three discussion questions. Then continue with slides 10–23 on consumption and ethics. Closes with the two-fact analysis again.
Week 1 · Thursday
Continuing the Data
Self-awareness mindful moment ("what am I bringing into this topic?"), continued data work on slides 10–23, and a discussion breakdown where students articulate one way the data supports eating less meat and one way it challenges the argument.
Week 1 · Friday
Reflection and Self-Evaluation
Self-score across the three rubric criteria (Participation, Listening/Response, Critical Analysis) with space to explain each score, plus a forward-looking reflection. The rubric is at the end of the notebook — links from this page jump straight to it.
Week 2 · Tuesday
Kahoot + Group Work
Values Kahoot (no right/wrong answers) followed by partner group work. Students pick one of two options: Article-to-Infographic, or Same Data, Different Story. Each option lists required elements, plus the four lenses to keep in mind (story, design, organization, rhetoric).
Week 2 · Wednesday
Continue & Debrief
Finish the visual argument, post to the class Padlet, then write a bias note in the notebook: what story were you telling, how did design shape it, how did you organize information, how did you use rhetoric. A picture-of-infographic field is included for grade submissions.
Week 2 · Thursday
Gallery Walk + Socratic Discussion
Gallery walk on the Padlet (≥2 comments on classmates' work), then a full-group Socratic discussion using the visual arguments as a jumping-off point. Closes with a reflection on data vs. presentation as drivers of student conclusions.
Week 2 · Friday
Final Self-Evaluation
Second-week rubric self-score plus a two-week reflection: where you started, where you are now, and a 3–5 sentence answer to the driving question with specific evidence. Closes with a reminder that canned or AI-generated reflections will be flagged on the rubric.
In-doc reference
Student Seminar Evaluation Rubric
Embedded at the end of the notebook as a 4×3 table — Notebook & Reflection, Participation, Listening/Response, Critical Analysis × 5–Mastery / 4–Proficiency / 3–In Progress. Friday's "participation rubric" links jump straight here, no external sites required.