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Reading Schedule: select the date
Apr. 19. Downtown Excursion
Formal Writing due dates
Mar. 24 complete reviews of others' second projects on SWORD
Mar. 25 bring to class hard copies of reviews of second project
Mar.31 : Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD
April 1 Bring to class [1] Revised Project 2 for instructor color coded to show where you took into account others’ reviews of your project, [[2] others’ reviews of your project, [3] your second feedback to reviewers, and [4] project 1 with my edits on it.
April 10 Bring to class a CD of website versions of the latest revisions of projects one and two
WHY MUST THESE ESSAYS BE IN WEBSITE FORMAT?
April 24 Bring to class a CD of your complete portfolio
May 6: final version of your Electronic Portfolio due in the mail slot of Par 132 10-12 noon or earlier or -140 points
ASSIGNMENTS
Mar. 24 complete reviews of others' second projects on SWORD
19. Mar. 25.Ritvo, HUNTING FOR "SPORT": 243-288
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted.
20. Mar. 27. E. Arnold’s THE LIGHT OF ASIA
935-88 Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia, 1879
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted.
Mar. 31. Second feedback to reviewers due
21. Apr. 1.Kipling's KIM, chapters 1-8 +
April 1 Bring to class [1] Revised Project 2 for instructor color coded to show where you took into account others’ reviews of your project, [[2] others’ reviews of your project, [3] your second feedback to reviewers, and [4] project 1 with my edits on it.
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
22. Apr. 3. KIM chapters 9-15 +
205 Kipling, “The Two-Sided Man”
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
April 6 . 10-2 EXTRA CREDIT Spring Festival at Buddhist Temple 6720 N Capital of Texas Highway Austin (on 360, north of 2222, opposite Bull Creek park). Enjoy delicious vegetarian food, raffle drawings, chinese tea, performance, and many more activities.
Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Temple: http://www.ibps-austin.org/ more pictures of the temple
Extra Credit: all you need is pictures to prove you were there
23. Apr. 8 Lockwood Kipling’s BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA
989-1037 John L. Kipling, Beast and Man in India, 1891
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
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24. Apr. 10.Kipling, the first JUNGLE BOOK + bring to class CD of website versions of Projects 1 and 2 -- latest, most revised versions
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10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
April 13 : Extra Credit. Passage to India. Barsana Dham. "Ram Navri " 11 am - 12:30 pm.
25. Apr.
15. the
second JUNGLE BOOK
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10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
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26.Apr. 17. Meet at the statue of the mustangs, at the intersection of 24th and San Jacinto, just east of Texas Natural Sciences Center (a. k. a. Texas Memorial Museum)
BRING YOUR COURSE ANTHOLOGY
Discussion Board MUSTANGS readings:
812 Ransom, on Dobie
813-815 Dobie introduction
837-878 J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs
850-851 querencia
879-882 Mustangs at U.T.
Discussion Board DARWIN 1 on the following readings:
THE LESSON OF THE STONES OF CAMPUS
346 Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts
347-50 “Carved in Stone””
351-56 Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”
357-59 Evolutionary Timeline
359-360 Geological Timeline
DARWIN
361-65 Guide to ghosts in Texas Natural Science Museum (a.k.a. Texas Memorial Museum)
366 Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time
367 “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum
368 Evolution, introduction
369-70 Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum
371-5 Charles Darwin
375-381 Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859)
379-370 “The Great Tree”
382 “The Tree of Life”
383-4 Alfred Lord Tennyson
385-390 Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)
386 Dust in the Wind
391 Browning and evolution
Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center directions
Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center website
Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center images
illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum
Oxford University Museumvirtual tour
Oxford University Museum images
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/Darwin1.jpg
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/Darwin2.jpg
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/debate1.jpg
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/debate2.jpg
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/AliceAJDC.JPG
27A. Apr. 19. Downtown Excursion
- DOWNTOWN EXURSION: MEET AT 2:15 SHARP AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE CAPITOL, A FEW BOOKS SOUTH OF MLK ON CONGRESS, PAST THE BOB BULLOCK MUSEUM ON THE RIGHT.
- 22 points to be earned, MORE IF YOU GO ON THE EXTRA EXPEDITION DOWN CONGRESS. -22 points if you do not attend.
- Writing to be uploaded to the Downtown DB or brought to class on Tuesday.
- After the Capitol exploration and in-class writing, an excursion down Congress to the Driskill will be offered for additional points in this category (not counted against Extra Credit limit).
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VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE DOWNTOWN AUSTIN
467-468 Basic Traditional Shapes: Columns and Domes
469-477 Texas Architectural Styles
475-477 Glossary
478-488 Historic Downtown Austin
489 Two U. T. Houses west of campus
490 Capitol Interior
491 Capitol Grounds
566-573 Texas First Registered Architect: Nicholas Clayton
- If you have to do this excursion on your own you must include the Congress Avenue and Driskill . . . . .
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The Driskill Hotel http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/arch/modernGothic/
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OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD "CATTLE AS TOTEM ANIMALS" - readings:
- 837-878 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
883-900 Longhorns at U.T.
901 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
902A-E Reverence for cattle in India
903-904 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
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10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
Discussion Board DARWIN 2 on the following readings:
THE LESSON OF THE STONES OF CAMPUS
346 Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts
347-50 “Carved in Stone””
351-56 Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”
357-59 Evolutionary Timeline
359-360 Geological Timeline
DARWIN
361-65 Guide to ghosts in Texas Natural Science Museum (a.k.a. Texas Memorial Museum)
366 Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time
367 “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum
368 Evolution, introduction
369-70 Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum
371-5 Charles Darwin
375-381 Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859)
379-370 “The Great Tree”
382 “The Tree of Life”
383-4 Alfred Lord Tennyson
385-390 Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)
386 Dust in the Wind
391 Browning and evolution
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In Memoriam and the Disappearance of God: Do you or do you not accept Tennyson's spiritual/moral/sentimental evolutionism as the solution to the Darwin vs. religion dilemma? Why or why not?
+ bring CD of portfolio with complete index and working links to all items
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
Discussion Board TENNYSON on the following readings:
383-4 Alfred Lord Tennyson
385-390 Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)
386 Dust in the Wind
REVIEW:
THE LESSON OF THE STONES OF CAMPUS
346 Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts
347-50 “Carved in Stone””
351-56 Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”
357-59 Evolutionary Timeline
359-360 Geological Timeline
DARWIN
361-65 Guide to ghosts in Texas Natural Science Museum (a.k.a. Texas Memorial Museum)
366 Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time
367 “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum
368 Evolution, introduction
369-70 Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum
371-5 Charles Darwin
375-381 Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859)
379-370 “The Great Tree”
382 “The Tree of Life”
383-4 Alfred Lord Tennyson
385-390 Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)
386 Dust in the Wind
391 Browning and evolution
April 26 : Extra Credit. Passage to India. Barsana Dham. "Mela Fair " noon- 9 pm.
Apr. 27 "Ranch" Party
LIVE MUSIC: INCLUDING E375L THE MUSICAL
FAR SURPASSING? E328's musical? The first two skits
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29. Apr. 29. Alice as hero, Alice graduates
review JP's first project for the value of Alice's example for college students.
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING. To earn these points, during the discussion, students must maintain eye contact with the speaker and listen with all their being, without talking to others, without interrupting, without thinking about they want to say next, without writing down anything but the briefest of notes, etc. Each time a student fails in this endeavor five points will be deducted. Students must concentrate well enough to repeat what the speaker has just said and the course of the discussion to that point. If they can not summarize what has just been said, five points will be deducted from their listening grade.
EXTRA CREDIT FOR PERFORMANCES OF JABBERWOCKY IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES translation site
MAY 6 Electronic Portfolio due in mail slot of Par 132 10-12 noon or earlier. -140 points if not done.
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