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What today is about

Fourth defense of the year. First one that's a negotiation, not a Q&A.

Unit 5's close-out day. Three things land in 80 minutes. First (~10 min): submission. Your Stakeholders Map + Position Paper + final AI Doc reflection get submitted at the start of class. Five weeks of work lands. Second (~55 min): the Stakeholder Roundtable. Students cluster into roundtables of ~6-8, ideally with one stakeholder per case represented at each table (a delta farmer + an upstream farmer + a city consumer + a downstream community + an environmental NGO + a government rep), six legitimate positions in genuine disagreement. The format is negotiation, not Q&A: stakeholders speak to each other, not to a moderator-audience. Each opens with their statement. Then the table tries to negotiate, looking for points of legitimate compromise without abandoning core stances. Pre-recorded video Roundtable for students who chose that option in Block 8. Third (~15 min): debrief + unit close. Did any roundtable reach consensus (rare and worth noticing; most real water disputes don't)? Where did legitimate compromise emerge? Where did the table hit irreducible disagreement? Then the unit-close reflection: one claim, one question, one connection.

Higher-stakes defense format than U1's NASA Committee, U2's planning-audience share-out, or U4's Policy Panel; those were all "one speaker, audience asks questions." Today's negotiation muscle is what U6 (Biosphere & Land Use) uses next. The skill compounds.

Concepts

Before you start the work

Pick one. Either will settle you into the Roundtable format before you go to your table.

Read (~5 min)

Defending Your Work: re-read with the negotiation-not-Q&A distinction in mind. The 5 response moves still apply, but in a Roundtable, you also use concession, refusal, and counter-proposal, moves that don't show up in a panel defense. Re-read in the 5 minutes before your table starts, especially if your draft kept you up late.

Real link · Foundations.

Placeholder

Interact (~5 min)

TBD: Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash sets table assignments + reads the bell-ringer snapshot aloud to seed the framing: Murray-Darling Basin water allocations have shifted three times in 20 years. What does that tell us about how "final" water allocations really are? What does it mean for your Roundtable today?

Whole-class. Seeds the negotiation.

Today's work: choose one path

All paths put you at a Roundtable for the C-strand score. The path you pick is about the format you committed to in Block 8.

Learning Intention: I can defend my stakeholder's position under multi-directional pressure, accurately summarize a competing stakeholder's position, and identify a possible point of compromise without abandoning my core stance.

Live Roundtable participation (default, most students)

You're at one of the ~4-5 live Roundtables. ~6-8 students per table, one stakeholder per case (or close to it). Round 1: each stakeholder opens with their 60-sec statement. Round 2-3: open negotiation (propose, challenge, concede, refuse, counter-propose). Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash floats. Each table captures its own one-paragraph debrief at the end: where did legitimate compromise emerge, where did irreducible disagreement land.

Group · Default

Pre-recorded video Roundtable + peer-feedback role at a live table (stretch)

For students whose video alt-format was pre-approved with Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash and finalized in Block 8. Submit the video Roundtable to Classroom by the start of class. Then sit at one live Roundtable as a structured peer-feedback observer: watch for the negotiation moves (concession, refusal, counter-proposal) and write one specific suggestion per stakeholder for their post-Roundtable reflection.

Solo + group · Stretch

Observer-recorder warm-up before joining (choice)

If your Roundtable feels heavy and a warm-up would help, observe one other table for ~15 minutes before joining your own. Take notes on what the negotiation moves look like in practice; that's good rehearsal data for your own table. Useful especially for students whose case has 7-8 stakeholders crowding one table.

Solo · Choice

Alt-format finalization (practice / safety-net)

If your deliverable isn't fully ready by start of class (Position Paper not submitted, video Roundtable not recorded), talk to Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash immediately. The safety-net path is a 1:1 conversation in the back of the room while live Roundtables run, with submission and a recorded short defense by end of class. Don't disappear; come find Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash.

Solo · Safety-net

Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:

A: Mar 25 | U5 B9 | Stakeholder Roundtable and Unit CloseB: Mar 29 | U5 B9 | Stakeholder Roundtable and Unit Close

Show

What you're submitting today

Three things: Roundtable participation, AI Doc final reflection, and the unit-close reflection paragraph.

Roundtable delivered + AI Doc final reflection + unit-close reflection

Three things. (1) Live Roundtable participation (or pre-recorded video Roundtable submitted to Classroom). Captured by Ms. Jayanthi/Mr. Ignash; this is the C-strand score for the Position Paper rubric. (2) AI Doc final reflection paragraph, one paragraph appended to your dossier: "what would I do differently next time I use AI on a Position-Paper-scale task?" Closes the year-long documentation discipline for U5. (3) Unit-close reflection: one claim that survived the Roundtable + one question a competing stakeholder raised + one connection you didn't expect to see.

Submit via Google Classroom →

Rubric link: Today is the C-strand score for the Stakeholders Map + Position Paper: clarity + stakeholder voice + negotiation moves under multi-directional pressure. C 7-8 requires "proposes a substantive concession or compromise without abandoning the stakeholder's core stance"; the Roundtable is where that gets demonstrated. See the rubric.

Reflect

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.

Unit-close reflection. Make it honest.

Today's reflection is in Google Classroom, under Reflection Journal.

Link posted in August

Preview: Unit 6

Where we go next

Unit 6 asks: how do you allocate land when every stakeholder wants something different from the same hectare? Land and water decisions are entangled all the way down: a Cauvery delta farmer's water claim is also a land-use claim (the rice paddies that need the water occupy the land), and an upstream Karnataka farmer's water claim is also a land-use claim (the sugarcane that drinks the water occupies the land too). U6 (Biosphere & Land Use) widens the scope from water alone to whole-landscape multi-stakeholder planning. The case anchors shift (coastal mangroves vs. industrial development, peri-urban farmland vs. housing expansion, forest commons vs. plantation conversion, peri-urban grazing vs. solar arrays), but the perspective-taking muscle is identical to what U5 just built. Same Stakeholders Map shape. Same voice-match T/T gate. Same negotiation-not-Q&A defense format.

The frameworks from this unit (OPVL on tribunal documents + Hindu articles + AI summaries, the 7-field Stakeholders Map, the four-part Position Paper, the AI Documentation discipline, the Stakeholder Voice rehearsal) carry forward intact. If something felt shaky in U5, the Foundations pages stay live all year, and the Unit 5 landing isn't going anywhere either. The Cauvery dispute you spent five weeks understanding doesn't disappear from your map; it becomes the substrate U6 builds on.