"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

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Unit 1 (revised)

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.

UNIT 1:
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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-CANCELLED
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February 22: Tuesday
-Rough Draft Visual Analysis Due

February 24: Thursday
-Final 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)
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