Letter to the Editor Worksheet Step 1:Read a Letter to the Editor. Read and analyze "Time to Make a Stand" by Gene Kitchen, a letter to the editor published on April 14, 2011 in the Medford Mail Tribune. Time to Make a Stand By Gene Kitchen It is time to make a stand against the extreme environmentalists. Every day I read something about saving this or conserving that. What about saving humanity? Environmental groups want to turn all of the Siskiyou Mountain range and Brown Mountain at Highway 140 north to Diamond Peak at Highway 58 into more monument land and wilderness. I say no! This is our land, I have been enjoying these forests for 40 years and don't see any huge physical changes except where we have reforested in the past, which needs to be logged now, but the extremists have this timber planted by man deemed as old growth. Because of these extreme environmentalists, we can't drill for oil, log public land, build nuclear energy plants or mine for rock and minerals in our country. We have the largest oil reserves in the world, some of the best timber in the world but we also have the best extreme environmentalists in the world. I say we take our country back, or the only people in the future that will appreciate these well-preserved lands will be the Chinese when they come clearcut and mine it all with absolutely no forest management plan. — Gene Kitchen, Eagle Point Step 2:Analyze a Letter to the Editor. Analyze "Time to Make a Stand." Briefly respond to each of the questions in the chart provided to assist with your analysis. Prompts for Analyzing “Time to Make a Stand” · environmentalists extremists? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? Every day · Literally or figuratively? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? I read something about saving this or conserving that · Is the author pro or con about saving or conserving? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? What about saving humanity? · Extreme environmentalists are not interested in saving humanity? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? Environmental groups · All groups or just particular ones? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? want to turn all of the Siskiyou Mountain range and Brown Mountain at Highway 140 north to Diamond Peak at Highway 58 into more monument land and wilderness. · All? · Is this true? · Any evidence? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? I say no! · No to what? · No to whom? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? This is our land, · Who is “our”? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? I have been enjoying these forests · How so and for what? · What is the author implying? · What are you inferring? for 40 years and don't see any huge physical changes · Significance of 40? · What is the implication of the author not seeing any huge change? · What is the difference between change and huge ...

1. Letter to the Editor Worksheet
Step 1:Read a Letter to the Editor. Read and analyze "Time to
Make a Stand" by Gene Kitchen, a letter to the editor published
on April 14, 2011 in the Medford Mail Tribune.
Time to Make a Stand
By Gene Kitchen
It is time to make a stand against the extreme environmentalists.
Every day I read something about saving this or conserving that.
What about saving humanity?
Environmental groups want to turn all of the Siskiyou Mountain
range and Brown Mountain at Highway 140 north to Diamond
Peak at Highway 58 into more monument land and wilderness. I
say no!
This is our land, I have been enjoying these forests for 40 years
and don't see any huge physical changes except where we have
reforested in the past, which needs to be logged now, but the
extremists have this timber planted by man deemed as old
growth.
Because of these extreme environmentalists, we can't drill for
oil, log public land, build nuclear energy plants or mine for
rock and minerals in our country. We have the largest oil
reserves in the world, some of the best timber in the world but
we also have the best extreme environmentalists in the world.
I say we take our country back, or the only people in the future
that will appreciate these well-preserved lands will be the

2. Chinese when they come clearcut and mine it all with absolutely
no forest management plan. — Gene Kitchen, Eagle Point
Step 2:Analyze a Letter to the Editor. Analyze "Time to Make a
Stand." Briefly respond to each of the questions in the chart
provided to assist with your analysis.
Prompts for Analyzing “Time to Make a Stand”
· environmentalists extremists?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
Every day
· Literally or figuratively?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
I read something about saving this or conserving that
· Is the author pro or con about saving or conserving?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
What about saving humanity?
· Extreme environmentalists are not interested in saving
humanity?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
Environmental groups
· All groups or just particular ones?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
want to turn all of the Siskiyou Mountain range and Brown
Mountain at Highway 140 north to Diamond Peak at Highway

3. 58 into more monument land and wilderness.
· All?
· Is this true?
· Any evidence?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
I say no!
· No to what?
· No to whom?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
This is our land,
· Who is “our”?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
I have been enjoying these forests
· How so and for what?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
for 40 years and don't see any huge physical changes
· Significance of 40?
· What is the implication of the author not seeing any huge
change?
· What is the difference between change and huge change?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
except where we have reforested in the past, which needs to be
logged now,
· Needs to be logged? Is this sarcastic or sincere?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?

4. but the extremists have this timber planted by man deemed as
old growth.
· Why the reference to “planted by man”?
· What is the value of “old growth” and who makes this
designation official?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
Because of these extreme environmentalists, we can't drill for
oil, log public land, build nuclear energy plants or mine for
rock and minerals in our country.
· True?
· How are these extreme environmentalists able to control
drilling, logging, nuclear plant building, and mining in our
country?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
Note: The control mostly lies in the hands of legislatures,
courts, and police.
We have the largest oil reserves in the world, some of the best
timber in the world
· Is this true?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
Note: In 2010, less than a year before this letter to the editor
was written, the U.S. was number 12 on the list of the countries
with the largest reserves.
but we also have the best extreme environmentalists in the
world.
· Is this sarcasm or sincerity?
· What is the author implying?

5. · What are you inferring?
I say we take our country back,
· From whom?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
or the only people in the future that will appreciate these well-
preserved lands
· Is this sarcasm or sincerity?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
will be the Chinese when they come
· Why the Chinese?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
clearcut and mine it all with absolutely no forest management
plan.
· How will they be able to do this?
· Why would they do this?
· Why with no plan?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
It is time
· Why now?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?
to make a stand
· What is a stand?
· What is the author implying?
· What are you inferring?

6. against the extreme environmentalists.
· What’s an environmentalist?
· What’s an extreme environmentalist?
· Are all environmentalists extremists?
Are some
Step 3: Write a Letter to the Editor. After analyzing your
responses to the prompts provided in Step 2, answer the
following questions in the space provided below:
What is the subject of the letter? To what is the writer
responding? (This portion of your overall response should be
100+ words)
Does the writer agree or disagree with something in the
publication? How would you describe the tone of voice? (This
portion of your overall response should be 100+ words)
Did the writer think critically about the subject before
submitting the letter? If so, how can you tell? If not, identify
the writer's barriers to critical thinking. What steps to engaging
in critical thinking did the writer skip, if any? (This portion of
your overall response should be 100+ words)
Was the letter to the editor constructive for the publication, or
was it merely an avenue for the writer to express support or
contempt? Explain. (This portion of your overall response
should be 100+ words)
Rewrite the letter. Apply critical thinking in order to make the
writer's message more effective. (This portion of your overall

7. response should be 250+ words)
Your Letter to The Editor
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UBER
Week #1 (social entrepreneurship)
3 step analysis process
· ID issue(s)
· Apply concept, lesson from readings, discussions
· Compare and contrast with concept and issue based upon
personal/professional experiences
How to make a meaning? (Guy Kawasaki)
· Increase quality of life
· Right a wrong
· Prevent good things from ending
Week #2
Be bold
Be specific
Be realistic
How to:
Fund it

8. Manage it
Market it
Value + Values = Impact/outcome
(Utility, benefit, function) + (Beliefs, assumption)
Week #3
TOWS analysis:
External
Internal
SO
Maxi-Maxi
ST
Maxi-Mini
WO
Mini-Maxi
WT
Mini-Mini
Week #4
The final paper. (Types of….)
· For profit
· Non profit
· Public private partnership
Predictable surprise
Value + values = impact
The level of surprise is the level of impact.
Yearup video giving people the chance to get an education that
is paid for.
For the final paper: choose a social enterprise

9. 1. Analyze market
· For profit
· Non-profit
· Social cause/movement
· Public-private partnership
a. Examine impact of mission of co./ org on center of influences
b. issues/challenges confronted
c. can it be replicated/scaled
2. Value + Values = impact
Recommend/
Solution
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Week #5
Environmental Scan:
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· Economic
· Social
· Technological
· Legal
· Environmental
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10. · Social inter
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· Social market
· Key point
· Issue
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