"Most great stories of adventure, from The Hobbit to 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 the particular set of geographical features that in each case sets the course, literally, of the tale."-Michael Chabon

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Upcoming Assignments, Clarifications, Changes

Journals are due on Tuesday.

Your journals should include entries on the following readings:
- Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith, second half. (Journal)
-From Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, pp. 9-25 (Journal)
- “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)
-from Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, p. 366 (Journal)
-“Smokey the Bear Sutra,” by Gary Snyder, p. 473 (Journal)

Please post your material from today's in class activity on your blog for Tuesday.


-This includes one (or more) photos from our class trip to the greenhouse
-One brief written "snapshot" of your experience in the greenhouse--this could be a written description of the object you photographed, a general description of the greenhouse, a description of something the greenhouse reminded you of, or some other written reaction to the experience...feel free to have fun and be creative here...these don't have to be long but I'd like you to take your time with language and description

Tuesday we'll be meeting in the lab, Thursday class is canceled.
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2 comments:

  1. Shawn SeatonMarch 7, 2010 at 8:49 PM

    Hi Racheal, I was wondering if you already have my second journal entry on Blood Dazzler, I think I turned it in when I turned in my poem. Thanks

    Shawn Seaton

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  2. rachael_shayMarch 8, 2010 at 7:55 PM

    Hey Shawn--write a note about it in your journal and I'll look for it.

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