Welcome to my Digital Portfolio! 
Explore the tabs to find project overviews, important course documents and resources, and learn more about me as an educator and community member. All assignments "live" on Google Classroom. 
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As always, feel free to contact me at tory.dille@animashighschool.com. 
Office Hours: 
Thursday  3:30-4:00
During lunch, by appointment. 

Spring: Your Life on Earth
Enduring Understanding: Our relationship to the natural world and our “place” on Earth is highly personal. It is also embedded in a political, cultural, and economic context. 

  • What does it mean to live a meaningful life? 
  • What gives your life meaning?
  • How do you characterize your relationship with Earth/place/resources?
  • How does your “intertextual” experience impact your personal philosophy? 
  • What is a “sense of place”? What is a worldview? How are worldviews connected to place?
  • What is your personal environmental or “land” ethic​​​​
Fall: Social Movements and the Democratic Experiment 
  • How have social movements shaped American history and the American experience?
  • What ideologies are central to the “Democratic Experiment”?
  • ​Is voting a right or a privilege? 
  • What political, social, and economic factors have contributed to social change succeeding or failing throughout the 20th century and today? What qualities make a movement successful? 
  • Project Handout  ​
Climate, Conflict & Environmental Justice (Spring 2022 Elective) 
  • How does climate change threaten the existence of some regions in the world and what is the science behind those issues?
  • What is the relationship between climate change and equity?
  • How do communities across the globe demonstrate social-ecological resilience? What could this look like in the Four Corners region? 
  • How does ecocentrism represent a paradigm shift in the way we think about Earth? What are the barriers to thinking this way?
Literature and Landscape in the West (Fall 2022 Elective) 
  • What defines the "West" and how do we "read" it? 
  • What literary techniques do writers evoke to communicate the feeling of a "place"? 
  • What common themes are found in writing about the American West?
  • What role can maps play in telling stories about a place? How can we make them more creative and engaging? 
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