Block 8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
If a planner cares most about 'will this location flood in the next 20 years?', what evidence from your biography would you lead with? Why?
Task: Discuss with a partner.
Answer in your Field Notebook, dated.
I have a complete draft of the Landscape Reading across all 6 components (biography past + present, projections, recommendations, AI Doc, share-out plan) AND a peer feedback note flagging one specific improvement per rubric strand.
I can build an explanation from evidence, not just state an answer.
"Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions"
Where this runs:
- U0 B2: OPVL Across Source Types
- U2 B7: Reading the Landscape: Worked Example + OPVL
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback ← you are here
- U3 B5: Case Study Jigsaw + Hazard Profile Due
- U3 B8: Case-Study Mastery + Comparative Reflection Due
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
Assessed:
Every summative's analysis sections (K/U + T/T strands)
On track looks like:
Your explanations name mechanisms ('because the core cooled…'), not just outcomes ('it's cold').
I can use AI to make MY work better, and show exactly who changed what.
In brief: "Direct generative AI to elicit feedback, refine work, and support reflection (paraphrased)"
Where this runs:
- U1 B8: Goldilocks Report Drafting: Substantive Writing Block
- U1 B9: NASA Stakeholder Q&A Prep: Practicing the Defense
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback ← you are here
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
Assessed:
Revision Trail: practiced U1/U2 Block 8, assessed with the U5 Position Paper
On track looks like:
Your trail has modified and rejected rows, not just accepted ones; the judgment stays yours.
I choose when to use AI and when to think it through myself, and I can defend either choice.
In brief: "Decide whether AI is the right tool for a task before using it (paraphrased)"
Where this runs:
- U0 B3: AI as a Source + Documentation Protocol
- U0 B5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation
- U0 B7: Defenses + Unit Close
- U1 B8: Goldilocks Report Drafting: Substantive Writing Block
- U1 B10: NASA Committee Q&A + Unit Reflection
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback ← you are here
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
Assessed:
AI-use log across the year; the defended not-using-AI reflection
On track looks like:
You can name a step where you chose NOT to use AI, and your reason survives a 'why?'
What today is about
Last full drafting day. Peer feedback is the rubric-aware kind today, not the evidence-audit kind from Block 6.
The first 50 minutes is conferencing rotation: Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash floats with students who need help on specific sections. The most-flagged weakness across cohorts is the projections section (Step 5 of the Landscape Reading): students default to "everything stays the same in all three scenarios." That's a T/T gate on the rubric. Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash will likely camp in the projections section for half the floats.
The next 25 minutes is structured peer feedback. Unlike Block 6's evidence audit, this round is rubric-aware: your peer reviews against the K/U, T/T, and C strands and gives you one specific suggestion per strand. The closing 5 minutes is the final format-choice lock: written, video, or infographic. Format choice doesn't affect strand scores; pick whichever lets your thinking land clearest.
Before you start the work
Start with the Watch: projected for everyone. The Read is the rubric section you are marked against, and the Interact is structured peer review in pairs.
Today's work: choose one path
All four paths end the same: drafted Reading (all 6 components) + peer feedback note. The path is about how you spend the drafting half before the peer feedback round.
Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:
A: Nov 10 | U2 B8 | Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer FeedbackB: Nov 11 | U2 B8 | Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
What you're submitting today
Three components lock today: Components 4 & 5 (T/T) + Component 6 (K/U). After today, K/U and T/T are essentially complete.
By end of class, in your dossier folder: (1) Component 4 (future projections): Step 5, three differentiated scenarios (T/T). (2) Component 5 (recommendations): Step 6, 3–5 specific, evidence-anchored, actionable (T/T). (3) Component 6 (AI Documentation log): every substantive AI conversation logged with OPVL + "one thing the AI got wrong" (K/U). These three lock today. Plus, not strand-marked today: a peer feedback note (one specific suggestion per rubric strand) and your format choice locked (written / video / infographic).
Also today: your Revision Trail, the one-page draft-to-final record of who changed what (you, a peer, or an AI). Template in Classroom; attach it to your draft. Second run; by Unit 5 this is habit.
Submit via Google Classroom (link posted in August)One question before you leave
Three to five minutes. Your answer is saved to your reflection journal, where you can read back everything you have written this year.
Use this to plan the Block 9 share-out.
Today's reflection is in Google Classroom, under Reflection Journal.
Link posted in AugustSign in with your school account. Your teacher can see what you write here.