"Most great stories of adventure, from The Hobbit to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom come furnished with a map. That's because every story of adventure is in part the story of a landscape, of the interrelationship between human beings (or Hobbits, as the case may be) and topography. Every adventure story is conceivable only with reference to a particular set of geographical features that in each case sets the course, literally, of the tale."-Michael Chabon

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Schedule: Unit 1: Visual Analysis

Note: Assigned readings need to be completed and responded to in your notebook by the day they are listed. Homework assignments are due on the day that they are listed.

January 11: Tuesday
-Introduce Course Policies

January 13: Thursday
-“Everything Is a Human Being,” by Alice Walker, p. 659
from Leaves of Grass, “This Compost,” by Walt Whitman, pp. 62-63, and "Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood" by Michael Chabon (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/16/manhood-for-amateurs-the-wilderness-of-childhood/) (Journal on one)
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January 18: Tuesday
-From Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, pp. 739-752.

January 20: Thursday
-Introduce Photo-A-Day Assignment
-From Refuge, “Epilogue,” pp. 732-759, Eula Biss essay (will be handed out in class) (Journal on one)
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January 25: Tuesday
-Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith, first half “Place,” by WS Merwin, p. 716, “The Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, p. 737

January 27: Thursday
-Imitate one of Patricia Smith's poems integrating your own experience of place, disaster, home, or loss
-Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith, second half. (Journal)______________________________________________
February 1: Tuesday
-In Class: Begin watching Into the Wild

February 3: Thursday
-In Class: Continue watching Into the Wild
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February 8: Tuesday
-From Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, pp. 9-25 (Journal)

February 10: Thursday
-“A First American Views His Land,” by N. Scott Momaday, p. 570 -___________________________________________
February 15: Tuesday
-Conferences in my office, LA 5
BRING YOUR DRAFT (first two paragraphs)

February 17: Thursday
-Conferences, in my office LA 5
BRING YOUR DRAFT (first two paragraphs)
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February 22: Tuesday
-Rough Draft Visual Analysis Due
-“Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903,” by Teddy Roosevelt “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks,” by Edward Abbey, p. 413 (Journal on one)
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