https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG Use this padlet to chart key details from "Silent Spring" and what you think these details mean. Then, use this information to suggest a theme. en-us 2019-09-20 12:38:49 UTC 2023-03-05 15:49:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307287 Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change.]]> 2019-09-20 16:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307287 calexander2023 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307299 "Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's
eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds
came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow." p 2]]> 2019-09-20 16:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307299 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307377 This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world.   ( paragraph 9)

]]> 2019-09-20 16:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307377 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307752 “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the birth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” Paragraph 8]]> 2019-09-20 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307752 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307979 They are talking about how peaceful the setting is. They explain how it is by talkin in extreme detail. Then they expain how the area was swept with disease that caused everything to die out.]]> 2019-09-20 16:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387307979 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387308764 People are held accountable for this destruction of life in the town and that this can happen to anyone. The people are an example of why we should be aware of our environment.]]> 2019-09-20 16:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387308764 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387309524 There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke
of them, puzzled and disturbed.
Paragraph 4]]> 2019-09-20 16:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387309524 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387309871 On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched.]]> 2019-09-20 16:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387309871 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387310584    This town isn’t real but it can happen anywhere even where you live. If doesn’t matter if you live in Australia or the U.S. 

]]> 2019-09-20 16:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387310584 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387310785 The area was swept by a disease that made every living thing to change for the worst.]]> 2019-09-20 16:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387310785 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387311202 Everything that is planted will die if it doesn't then it will struggle to live even animals will suffer. ]]> 2019-09-20 16:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387311202 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312522 A blight causes drastic fatal changes towards life.]]> 2019-09-20 16:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312522 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312686 "A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this
imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know." P. 9]]> 2019-09-20 16:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312686 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312927 The people are an example of why we should be aware of our environment. Be more careful about the environment.]]> 2019-09-20 16:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312927 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312989 We affect all the plants and animals in this world and everything will be destroyed if we don't protect it. ]]> 2019-09-20 16:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387312989 calexander2023 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313100 Don't take things for granted ]]> 2019-09-20 16:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313100 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313154 We should realize what's going on in our environment especially what we make because we think that's it's a step in the successful future when it's a step in a deadly future.]]> 2019-09-20 16:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313154 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313409 They do not understand what is happening around them.]]> 2019-09-20 16:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313409 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313568 Take care of your environment.]]> 2019-09-20 16:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387313568 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387315452 Take care of our Earth]]> 2019-09-20 16:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387315452 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387315688 people are unaware of what they are doing to the environment and how it will effect us]]> 2019-09-20 16:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/PeriodG/wish/387315688