HW due for this Wed ...102 class

first thing is to get and bring the book!



Writing assignment:

This is an imagination exercise---you will be going into the mind of your pet, to try to get into their thoughts and spirit and body. You will be imagining what they are thinking, feeling, needing, etc... ----the goal is to leave your own brain behind, and to see if you can enter the mind of the fellow creature.... use your (their) 5 senses....try to stay away from concepts, and instead explore the senses....and the details of their world....

this is an exercise that will take some time... you should plan to sit with the creature to get closer to it, literally and figuratively. ----

you can do it as a poem, or as prose......take your time... to get into the head space needed to do this...

HW for 102 and 1A classes....due next week

hey there, so we are starting on a new book, "The Star Thrower," by Loren Eiseley.

You have some reading to do, and some writing...all of this will lead you directly into paper 4, which will be assigned next week. the HW below is due on Monday Nov 30 for the 102 class...

First the reading...

Please read the following chapters,

1.  "the long loneliness" pg37, 
2. "the innocent fox," pg. 53,
3.  "how flowers changed the world," pg 66.

once you read these chapters, here are some questions for you to answer.

1. what does Eiseley seem to doing with his writing?
2. what is he trying to teach us?
3. what did you learn?
4. How does Eiseley relate to Thoreau? (you will need to do a little research into who Thoreau was in order to do this question....) 

you should do 1-2 paras for each question..... type up....

HW for 102 for Wed

hey.....so we are doing a draft day on wed....the 18th.
pls bring two copies typed

wht you should have be Wed:

1. at least 6 body paras typed (with quote support)--if you can get more, then pls do.
2. your outline of what your paper will be doing...this means 4 big concepts, with Rule of 3 for each of the 4 big concepts...

the outline is crucial , bc we need to know what the rest of your paper will be doing...

in order to generate your 4 big concepts, you can draw from the blog post below, and from your own notes, and from the ideas that are found in our prompts...INto the WIld, the two movies, story of stuff, circular kindergarten, Andrade video below, project based  video  below, ....you will want to pull quotes from these various sources...

HW for the TUESDAY 1A class

soooo,


we are doing big time big deal draft day next week,,, bring 2 copies typed....

the goal is to have 12 body paras, and 3 intro paras....

you should have 4 main concepts that are RULE of 3'd.......

try to get 2 quotes per paras.........


final paper is now due on Tues the 24th....

Notes from Thurs nite 1A that can help 102 class and 1A class with paper #3

 Hey there, these are some rough notes from class on thurs.... you might find them helpful;....

one way to get into the paper, is to first think about what isn’t working with education…this can be personal … this can be from memory… of course it can also be researched , academic, etc…

You can include negative thoughts about education in 3-4-5 (topic sentences)  and in commentary…to set up your POSITIVE  concepts...(think of your concepts as solutions...._)

Another way to get a foot hold into the paper  is to ask for yourself: what should be the goal of school? 

Some big concepts that can be explored (and then Rule of 3’d)

Limits of Formal Education—(opposite of that could be your concepts

• ·    Structure of the classroom
• ·    The “systems” of college
• ·    Curriculum (what is taught)
• ·    Pedagogy (how it is taught)

TRAVEL—

• Self education----
• education by the tribe
• education by family
• power of technology to shape education 
  NATURE

• Nature as a classroom..Circular kindergarten …
• Relate N to the curric
• N offers perspectives—
• Respect N , teach about N, make us aware of it…
• Understand what N offers us--
• N supplies metaphors for how to live , for how to learn…

HW for next week for 1A

ok, it is draft day on Tues Nov 10 and Thurs Nov 12----pls bring 2 copies typed of your draft...the goal is have 4 main concepts that you will do a Rule of 3 on....

NOTE: you must email me an outline of your 4 main concepts with the RULE of 3 subconcepts...for the tues class, I need it by thurs, nov 5, and for the thurs class i need it by sat Nov 7


be sure to pull quotes from our main sources, including INto the WIld....speaking of the book , you should be up through chapter 15 by next week.....

In addition, you should consider going to Tourettes without Regrets, which is on Thurs nite, Nov 5. It is a great example of community education that is self generated by the community itself.

also, you should watch HIGH TECH HIGH

and Jeff Duncan Andrade