"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, February 23, 2011

February 24th

"If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea."-Wallace Stegner


Image: Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, two early champions of the parks, in Yosemite, 1903.

Image: In 1892, Buffalo Bill Cody (second from right) and company survey the land at Grand Canyon National Park, 1892


Image: Photographer Ansel Adams at work at Denali National Park.


-Teddy Roosevelt video (from PBS America's Best Idea)

In Groups:

-What devices do you notice Roosevelt or Abbey using? (Pick at least 3 with a partner)

-Take fifteen minutes and try and make your own social or environmental argument using some of Roosevelt/or Abbey's strategies.

Homework: From A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, p. 85, and from My First
Summer in the Sierras, p. 98, by John Muir.
(Journal on one)

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