Literature and Landscape - Fall 2022
This is your digest of the scope and sequence of happenings in class. Expect key deadlines, project resources, and key understandings to be located here.
Assignments and all other course material and expectations "live" on Google Classroom - you will access, turn in, and get feedback on assignments on Google Classroom unless otherwise instructed.
End of Semester Update -
Assignments and all other course material and expectations "live" on Google Classroom - you will access, turn in, and get feedback on assignments on Google Classroom unless otherwise instructed.
End of Semester Update -
- We learned how to use mapping software to create maps of interest to us
- We practice using the laser cutter to print our maps
- We read selected place-based essays and literature to find quotations that were meaningful
- We curated our maps with our quotations to make a display for the new building
- progressed through Desert Solitaire during class reading time - we are about halfway through the book.
- discussed literary techniques employed by Abbey
- Completed short writing assignments to reflect on what we've read
- discussed the role of public land in the West
- What are story maps? How do they display geographic and cultural information?
- A brief history of westward expansion in the U.S. - How was "the West" characterized by different stakeholders during westward expansion?
- Aldo Leopold's "Thinking like a Mountain" - what role does Leopold believe predators play on a landscape?
- Masculine vs. Feminine interpretations of "the West"
- Is the West an idea or a place? - a question we will continue to wrestle with.
- The context for Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey - a novel we are now reading together in class.
- Assignments: Weekly writing assignments in your journal. You should have three at this point. Assignments are on Google Classroom