Block 6: Cauvery Dispute Deep Dive + Stakeholders Map Started
What today is about
First major Position Paper work day. The unit pivots fully to the assessment.
Today does three big things in 80 minutes. First, a Cauvery dispute deep dive: the anchor case for the unit, presented in detail so every student (regardless of their own chosen case) has a working understanding of what a real water-rights dispute looks like end-to-end. The Cauvery is ~440 km, basin ~81,000 km², shared across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, and Puducherry. The dispute's long arc: a 1924 colonial-era agreement between the British-administered Madras Presidency and the princely state of Mysore → the 1990 Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal → the 2018 Supreme Court verdict → ongoing Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) enforcement. Both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are presented neutrally today: each has legitimate hydrological and legal claims, and the dispute isn't framed as one side right and the other wrong. That neutrality is the move: perspective-taking only works if you can hold multiple legitimate positions in mind simultaneously.
Second, a worked-example Stakeholders Map demoed live. Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash builds a complete 7-field stakeholder map in front of the class, on a deliberately different case from any student's chosen one, likely Bangalore's water crisis (a city-scale dispute distinct from Cauvery as an inter-state river dispute, so the analytical move transfers without students being able to copy). If you happen to be working on Bangalore, Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash will demo on an alternate case (Aral Sea, or a hypothetical) so the worked example isn't your case. The point is to see the 7-field framework applied end-to-end on a complete real case before applying it to your own.
Third, you start your own Stakeholders Map. Your case is locked (from Block 5). Your stakeholder is locked. The block's back half is conferencing time: Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash floats; come find him if stuck. The Hydrologist and Source Evaluator are open. This is the most teacher-available block of the unit; use it.
Before you start the work
Start with the Watch: the Cauvery case study and worked example, the lecture-heaviest moment of the unit. The Read and the Interact follow it.
Today's work: choose one path
All four paths advance your Stakeholders Map. The path you pick is about how much you stretch beyond the default first draft.
Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:
A: Mar 17 | U5 B6 | Cauvery Dispute Deep Dive + Stakeholders Map StartedB: Mar 18 | U5 B6 | Cauvery Dispute Deep Dive + Stakeholders Map Started
What you're submitting today
First-draft Stakeholders Map. Your stakeholder's full row + ≥3 additional stakeholders. Specificity is the bar.
Two things: (1) your chosen stakeholder's complete 7-field row: Who They Are · What They Want · Evidence They Cite · Position · Power · Allies+Opponents · How They Frame Opponents · (2) ≥3 additional stakeholders for your case named with at least 2 fields each (Who They Are + Position minimum). The K/U 7-8 band requires "specific stakeholders"; generic "farmers" or "the government" sits K/U in the lower bands. Use the Bangalore worked example from today's demo as your spec for what specificity looks like end-to-end.
Submit via Google Classroom →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.
The reflection is the bridge to Block 7's counter-argument work.
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.