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		<title>earth scouts visit paws</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2012/01/11/earth-scouts-visit-paws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our Earth Scouts group paid a visit to PAWS of Tinley Park. PAWS is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the protection of domestic animals. Our current Earth Scouts&#8217; focus is to make a difference through participatory democracy&#8211;and through those means, together, we chose to focus our attention on animal welfare. Specifically, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>chicagoland earth scouts go online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have taken on the new responsibility of assisting my beautiful wife with a project dear to her heart. She has been a facilitator for a youth group called Earth Scouts for the past four years now; recently her co-facilitator has stepped down, allowing me the opportunity to step up, and I am very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a real world few students wanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach the first year composition sequence at a community college. These are required writing courses for all transfer students&#8211;the majority of the students who pass through the institution. With very few exceptions, I would say that these two courses are probably the least looked-forward to by students of the entire gen-ed curriculum. Many just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ecological thinking and doing</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/02/13/ecological-thinking-and-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, my teaching has cultivated critical dialogue amongst students on social issues&#8211;education, gender, ethnic/racial conflict, classism, and so on. I raise questions; that&#8217;s what I do. Truth be told, my personal agenda is clearly a progressive one; although, I am very careful not to stack the deck against students with contrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>earth scouts: saving soles, saving lives</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/01/12/earth-scouts-saving-soles-saving-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During December our Earth Scouts group participated in a service project of collecting shoes for Share Your Soles. You might think&#8211;why shoes? To be honest, I never really thought about the importance of shoes, but after learning more about this organization and exploring this issue, I now see how very valuable shoes can be&#8211;sometimes even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hunger in our own backyard</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/11/17/hunger-in-our-own-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are hungry in your community, and they are just like you. These are tenuous times where we are all very close to finding ourselves without. Our family is learning more about this and putting some of our free time to good use lately at a local food pantry. In addition to organizing a food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>who knew that $320 can get you a llama, a goat, chicks, and bees</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/05/24/who-knew-that-320-can-get-you-a-llama-a-goat-chicks-and-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day! Our Earth Scouts group finished up their unit on Economic Justice today earning two badges&#8211;one for the unit and a smaller one for the reading fundraiser that they have been working on for the past several months. The reading fundraiser, called Read to Feed, was part of our work to raise money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>budding social activist</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/10/budding-social-activist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m totally psyched up for our new unit in Earth Scouts, the youth group that I lead along with my friend Heidi. At first when Heidi and I decided it was time to move away from our safety net of concentrating on nature and decided to attempt this new unit of &#8220;economic justice,&#8221; I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>christmas caroling 2009</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/12/19/christmas-carolling2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening we took our second annual trip with our homeschooling coop group to a local assisted living center to spread some holiday cheer. The kids sang their songs and distributed treats they had baked to the residents. It was a lot of fun. Aidan was rehearsing all week for the big day. He sang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a clean-up day and the case of the mysterious skull</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/04/04/clean-up-day-with-earth-scouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Scouts had their first &#8220;official&#8221; clean-up day today. The day was a beautiful one weather-wise for our adventures. Four families showed up and everyone worked hard for a couple of hours cleaning up the Van Horn Woods in Plainfield. The kids filled many bags full of bottles, cans, plastic bags, snack wrappers, etc. We [...]]]></description>
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