RHE309K Schedule, Freshman English, Nature Writing, Jerome Bump

Schedule and Table of Contents

 

All required reading assignments are in Jenn’s xeroxed  anthology.

[G = optional pages in Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins PR 4803 H44 Z597, PCL and UGL]

 

Jan 15. INTRODUCTION to the course,

 

ü         Questionnaires to be distributed and collected.

ü         Class Contacts to be completed.

ü         IF computer account number required to logon to class intranet. (New users may claim an IF account at the Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn UGL by completing an IF account request form and presenting it and a government-issued photo ID at the front desk.)

 

Introductory Course Materials.

1-4                                     Course Description

5-7                                     Reading Schedule

8-11                                 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14                             Guidelines for Listening

15                                        Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17                             Sexual Harrassment Policy

                                    --Writing Instructions--

18                                                       The Portfolio

19A-19K                                 Effective Visual Design

19L                                                  Spell Checker

19M                                                Polished Writing Instructions

58-9                                                Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

20                                                       Web Projects

21                                                       Web Site citation guidelines

22                                                       Undergraduate Writing Center resources for you

23-4                                                Learning Skills Center resources for you

25-6                   General Grades Definition (see also course description)

27                          Teaching Philosophy

28                           Nature Websites

29-30                Course Goals

31- 4              HTML Quick Reference

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

 

Jan 17 HTML and Digital Interpretation of Nature

 

 

¸         see ACITS short courses and HTML class schedules: http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/

¸         see self paced tutorials: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet

¸         Review X1-61, especially "Local Sites";  Nature Websites; HTML Basics;  HTML Quick Reference.

¸         Go to http://geocities.yahoo.com/  to start making your own home page.

 

ü         Journal entry due on Discovery Learning and one or more of the following:

62-3                                 Discovery Learning;

64-80                       Bump, "Radical Changes"

81-4                                 Miller, "Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"

web                                  Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the  Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism"  [tune your browser to

 www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html]

 

Review and be ready to ask questions about:

1-3                                     Course Description

4-7                                     Reading Schedule

8-11                                 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14                             Guidelines for Listening

15                                        Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17                             Sexual Harrassment Policy

                                    --Writing Instructions--

18                                                       The Portfolio

19A-19K                                 Effective Visual Design

19L                                                  Spell Checker

19M                                                Polished Writing Instructions

58-9                                                Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

20                                                       Web Projects

21                                                       Web Site citation guidelines

22                                                       Undergraduate Writing Center resources for you

23-4                                                Learning Skills Center resources for you

25-6              General Grades Definition (see also course description)

27                          Teaching Philosophy

28                           Nature Websites

29-30                Course Goals

31- 4              HTML Quick Reference

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

 

 

JAN 22 WHY NATURE? AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RECOLLECTIONS OF YOUTH IN NATURE. RECOVERY OF MYSTERY, INNOCENCE, WONDER, ENERGY, ETC.:

 

¸         Journal entry due {2 copies} on  one or more of the following:

¸         [Items in parentheses do not count]

(254-255                  Wordsworth, Introduction)

416-19                        Wordsworth's "Prelude": see especially note 3 on p. 417, love vs. fear, a keynote of this course

420-30                                         Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination  in Childhood"

40-44                             Mill, “Autobiography”

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

(431                                Thomas, Introduction)

431-2                            "The Force That Through the Green Fuse"

433-5                            Thomas's "Fern Hill"

(443                               Blake  Introduction)

579                                    Blake “Auguries of Innocence”

580                                    “The Mystery”

 

JAN 24 ROAD MAP OF YOUR JOURNEY.

 

Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of your encounters with nature over the course of your life. Include fearful as well as positive memories of nature. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or ……  For electronic examples, see web site. Will become part of your portfolio.

 

436-9 Road Map of Your Journey

 

 

JAN 29 VERBAL AND VISUAL RESPONSES TO NATURE II: DRAWING,  WRITING,  AND ARCHITECTURE: SYCAMORE VS. HRC.

 

ü         Weather  permitting, we will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front of the Humanities Research Center building. There we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the tree and the modern architecture of the building

¸          

LR parts A1. A2. due. Initial interview etc. due  35-6                        Learning Record Instructions

Journal entry due {2 copies} on 125-51 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing  

 

Related materials that can also be included:

152-8                             (introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin)

203-210                     “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”

442                                    Barney, “The Shape of Sound”

581                Directions for Writing About Nature

[G14-21, 25-30]

 

 

JAN 31 Unity Consciousness

 

¸         Up till now in the course we have often focused on various details we have seen in nature. That approach is sometimes called stofftrieb. Now we will turn more consciously to formtrieb:  the idea of unity in the variety. We will consider how each medium communicates the idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts, only local   symptoms or manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual  interdependency, or a special harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an  ecosystem not by leveling the forces of diversity but by promoting them. 

ü         Contribute two passages of your choice on this subject to the Unity Forum, supplying complete bibliographical information. OR

Journal entry due {2 copies} on  one or more of the following:

346                                    Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51                         Burch,  "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8                                            Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64                         Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

156-158                     (Hopkins, introduction)

401                                    Hopkins, “As kingfishers”

398-399                     Hopkins, ‘Pied Beauty,

37-39                             Browning, “Two in the Campagna”

187                                    Taniguchi, "The spirit of the garden"

 

 

Feb. 5 MEET AT LITTLEFIELD HOUSE FRONT LAWN. 24th and Whitis [in case of rain meet on porch].   Pine vs. Littlefield   House

 

¸         LR Statement of YOUR course goals and Weekly Self Observation Due.

¸         Again, we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the Victorian architecture of the building and the tree.

¸         Review Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30]; Barney's “The Shape of Sound”; introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin; “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”;

¸         Journal entry due {2 copies} on  one or more of the following:

 

451-458                                Harrigan's “The Soul of Treaty Oak”

159-60                        Littlefield House

Review

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

29-30                             Course Goals

581                                    Directions for Writing About Nature

 

FEB 7 PINE AND SYCAMORE WEB SITE CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.

 

¸         Study “How to Post Your Writing” carefully

¸         Scan drawings if possible.

¸         Include at least two citations of  my article, Harrigan,  Barney, etc. with page nos.

¸         Save responses on diskette.

¸         Decide on when we meet at the Japanese Garden in Zilker park. The Japanese Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the school of architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden": “one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.’

¸          Read 187-202 on the garden and other sites in Zilker Park. Also, when we go to Zilker Park you might want to check out Philosopher's Rock --the statues of Texas nature writers, Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb, in front of the swimming pool -- and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and, if time, take a canoe ride out into the "lake."

 

582-5                             How to Post Your Writing

187                                    "The Spirit of the Garden"

188-98                         The Mother Tree

199-200                     maps

201-2                             Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum

215-15                                      Philosopher’s Rock

459                              Form for visit to the garden

 

Feb 12 FEAR OF NATURE

 

Journal Entries Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following 

(412-413                  Jeffers, introduction)

413-414                    "Hurt Hawks"

415                                   “Vulture"

444-450                     Harrigan "The Tiger is God"

(443                                 Blake introduction)

443A                              Blake, “The Lamb” text only

443B                               Blake, “The Tyger” text only

Blake "The Tyger" vs. Blake “The Lamb”  multimedia:        http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E309K/blake.html

45-53                   Dillard, from Pilgrim

54-55                             Darwin, “The Struggle for Existence”

56-57                             Tennyson, from In Memoriam

 

 

For help with ideas for your project due Feb. 26 see                                      

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

211                                    Writing the Natural Way;

212-3                             Wild Mind

                       

FEB 14 Waller Creek and the Environment

 

Journal Entries Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following:   

(161A                     Jones, introduction)

161B                               Waller Creek

162-9                      Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5                      Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86                                       "Committed 'til Death"

466-8                                            Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

 

For help with ideas for your project due Feb. 26 see                                      

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

211                                    Writing the Natural Way;

212-3                             Wild Mind

 

Feb 19.Writing Nature at Waller Creek.

Meet at Waller Creek behind the Alumni Center.

[in case of rain meet under the eaves of the Alumni Center overlooking the creek]

 

*LR Midterm 1 Due        35-6                               Learning Record Instructions

*Fill In, and Turn in  separate midsemester evaluation of course

¸         If you think you won’t know what to write about, check out what your predecessors have written on the web site.

¸         Write about whatever you see there. If you are feeling blocked, just start describing the details of the plants and animals and water and stones etc. in front of you.

¸         Look at what is in front of you from 2 points of view besides yours. In other words, say what you think two people very different from you – say Jones and Barney – would see.

¸         Cite from Jones and Barney.

 

469            Barney “On a Detail from Audubon”

470            Barney, “Mr. Bloomer's Birds” [describes Boat Tailed Grackles – the most common birds at Waller Creek]

Review:

161A                       Jones, introduction,

162B                               Waller Creek

162-9                             Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5                             Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86                         "Committed 'til Death"

466-8                             Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

581                                    Directions for Writing in Nature

 

For help with ideas for your project due Feb. 26 see                                      

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

211                                    Writing the Natural Way;

212-3                                            Wild Mind

 

FEB 21. WALLER CREEK WEB SITE CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.

 

¸         Citations from Jones and Barney required, with page nos.

¸         Save responses on diskette for portfolio.

 

Review:

161A                       Jones, introduction,

162B                               Waller Creek

162-9                             Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5                             Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86                         "Committed 'til Death"

466-8                             Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

469                                    Barney “On a Detail from Audubon”

470                                                      Barney “Mr. Bloomer's Birds”

582-5                                            How to Post Your Writing

 

For help with ideas for your project due Feb. 26 see                                      

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

211                                    Writing the Natural Way;

212-3                             Wild Mind

 

 

Feb 26 FIRST PROJECT DUE*

on web page AND on paper

 

¸         Post First Project on web and hand in polished hard copy in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. Paper projects must include two media. This requirement is usually met by inserting electronic files of pictures or photographs into your text and printing the result on a glossy paper with a color printer. [Electronic projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text -- and Cd or diskette, etc. if the project is to be put on our web site]

¸         Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least ten people in detail (at least six sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond. This extra credit can be used to improve your class participation grade.

¸         Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.

¸         Save comments on diskette for your portfolio.

ü         *You must include pictures in this assignment. The purpose of the pictures was for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common in the field these days and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure. Pay special attention to 19A-19K       Effective Visual Design

ü         Make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program.

ü         Remember that, given a focus on nature (non-human plants or animals), you have a lot of options, including writing a traditional lit. crit. essay about some example(s) of the literature of nature.

ü         If you do an essay, it is to be at least 4-6 pages. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.

ü         To get an A in nature essay writing you will need to show that you are good at communicating details, at making your plant or animal come alive for the reader. For example, even if you never heard of a catfish before, the details in Perry’s description on p.  505,  enable you to see what one looks like and how one behaves. (If you do a web page, of course, you can communicate these details often by pictures.)

ü         Thirdly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26  of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.

¸         Review

1-3                                     Course Description

                                    Project Instructions

18                                                       Portfolio

19                                                       Polished Writing Instructions

19A-19K                                 Effective Visual Design

58-9                                                Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

20                                                       Web Projects

21                                                       Web Site guidelines

22                                                       Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4                                                Learning Skills Center

25-6                      Grades Definition

29-30                 ACITS short courses; 

31- 4                HTML Quick Reference

203-10                         Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211                                    Writing the Natural Way

212-3                             Wild Mind

582-5                             How to Post Your Writing

 

FEB 28  Fish, Reptiles, and the Sympathetic Imagination

 

Journal Entries due {2 copies} on “The Sympathetic Imagination”  and 1 of the following:

85                                        The  Sympathetic Imagination"

86-103                         Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8                           introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124                     D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems

460-465A                Harrigan “Swamp Thing”

465B                               Barney “On Greer Island”

 

March 5. Animals in Our Lives

 

¸         LR Biweekly observation due   35-6                   Learning Record Instructions

¸         Journal Entry Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following:  

 

(588                                 Texas Nature Writing)

471-482                     Graves, “Blue and Other Dogs”

483-486                     Graves,   “Meat,”

(487                                 Introduction to Alice Walker)

488-491                     Walker “Am I Blue?”

 

Mar 7 Texas Sense of Place   I.

 

¸         Journal Entries due {2 copies} on two or more of the following:

 

(588                                 Texas Nature Writing)

492-5                             Graves, Good-Bye to a River

496-504                     Graves, “Nineteen Cows”

588                                    Texas Nature Writing

505                                    George Sessions Perry on the Gabriel River

506-7                             Katherine Anne Porter, on the blackland farming country

508                                    Dorothy Scarborough, from In the Land of Cotton

509                                    Loula Grace Erdman, on the high plains

510                                    Sidney Lanier, on the prairies

511                                    Elmer Kelton, from The Time it Never Rained

512                                    Walt Whitman on west Texas

513                                    Benjamin Capps on arrival of spring in west Texas

 

MAR 19. TEXAN SENSE OF PLACE  II

 

           Revised Project due. Remember your grade will be reduced for each error that is repeated from your first draft!

¸         Turn in to instructor a revised project in pocket folder with your name on the outside with

¸         [1] revised project

¸         [2] first project with instructor's original comments and

¸         [3] print-out of suggestions from other students.

ü         [4] follow suggestions in 588-92 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

ü         [5] Check out 58-9                                               Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

 

¸         Journal Entries Due {2 copies} on "Cedar Cutter" and one or more of the following:

(588                         Texas Nature Writing)

(214-5                    Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs)

(216                                 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web)

(217-8                           Local Writing)

(219                                 Bedicheck, introduction)

220-2                            Bedicheck, "The  Wing of the Swallow"

223-30                         "Cedar Cutter";

231-48                         Graves, "Texas Hill Country"

249-52                         "Carved in Stone"

 

Mar 21 British Sense of Place I

 

¸         Journal Entry Due  {2 copies} on Wordsworth's "Michael" comparing it to "Cedar Cutter": how are these two accounts of old men who are close to nature similar and different?

 

256-62                   Wordsworth, ‘Michael”

 

Related material for additional journal entries:

156-158                     (Hopkins, introduction)

253                                   Hopkins: Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];

(262                                 Dobie, Introduction)

268-79                         Dobie, “A Texan in England” "

 

MARCH 26   .J. FRANK DOBIE.

Meet at Dobie's house, 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite the law school.

¸         LR Midterm 2 Due 35-6             Learning Record Instructions

ü         Fill In, and Turn in  separate midsemester evaluation of course,

¸        

ü At Dobie’s house we will see the memorabilia.

¸         Then we will go on to the statue of the mustangs  in front of the Texas Memorial Museum, cited by Dobie.

         then to the statues in front of the Alumni Center.

¸         At the Center you will make journal entries in long hand about what you have seen, incorporating at least one quote from Dobie’s The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns .

 

280-297                Dobie, "The Longhorns" [relate to statue of Longhorn at Alumni Center]

298-337                                Dobie, "The Mustangs" [relate to statue at Texas Memorial Museum]

Review

588                                    Texas Nature Writing

214-5                      Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs

216                                    Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web

217-8                             Local Writing

262-67                        Dobie introduction;

170-5                             Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot" (on Dobie etc.)

268-279                     Dobie, "A Texan in England"

581                                    Directions for Writing in Nature

 

For help with ideas for project 2 due April 2 see Unity in the writer. X203-13 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind.

 

MAR 28 Biology Ponds: Fish, Reptiles, and the Sympathetic Imagination.

Meet  at Biology Ponds north of the Tower

 

¸         Journal at ponds incorporating 1 citation from Darwin, 339-43, and one from the following: Harrigan's "Swamp Thing";  Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain";  Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems.

 

339-43                         Darwin

Review

85                                        The  Sympathetic Imagination"

86-103                         Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8                           introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124                     D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems

460-465A                Harrigan “Swamp Thing”

465B                               Barney “On Greer Island”                                  

581                                                      Directions for Writing in Nature

 

¸         For help with ideas for project 2 due April 2 see Unity in the writer. X203-13 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind.

 

 

 

Apr 2: SECOND PROJECT DUE

on web page AND on paper *

 

¸         Post Second Story on web and hand in polished hard copy, along with both versions of project 1 (with instructor comments), in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. [Multmedia projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text and Cd or diskette, etc.]

¸         Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least ten people in some detail (at least four sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond.

¸         Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.

¸         Save comments on diskette.

ü         *In this project aim specifically at increasing your unity consciousness, as illustrated by Brooke’s web page, listed under Portfolios in Exemplary Web pages on our course web site.

ü         You do not need to include pictures this time if you do not want to do so. (The purpose of the pictures was for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common in the field these days and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure.)

ü         If you do include pictures, make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program.

ü         Remember that, given a focus on nature (non-human plants or animals), you have a lot of options, including writing a traditional lit. crit. essay about some example(s) of the literature of nature.

ü         If you do an essay, it is to be the same size: 4-6 pages. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.

ü         If you add on to your web site, you need 2-3 pages of new text to make an A, unless you make creative HTML changes such as the addition of sound.

ü         To get an A in your writing, whether in the essay or web format, you will need, first of all, to avoid the problems cited in the first two project drafts, especially those I stressed on the second draft.

ü         Secondly, to get an A on this essay you will need to demonstrate unity. Read pp. 58-9 Carefully.

ü         Thirdly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26  of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.

 

¸         Review

1-3                                     Course Description

                                    Project Instructions

18                                                       Portfolio

19                                                       Polished Writing Instructions

58-9                                 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

20                                                       Web Projects

21                                                       Web Site guidelines

22                                                       Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4                                                Learning Skills Center

25-6                      Grades Definition

31- 4                HTML Quick Reference

203-10                         Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211                                    Writing the Natural Way

212-3                             Wild Mind

582-5                             How to Post Your Writing

589-592                                Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

 

APR 4 Dobie and Biology Ponds web contributions.

 

¸          In Dobie forum  Must have at least one quote from Dobie’s The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns, with page nos. .

¸         For Biology Ponds contributions remember 1 citation from Darwin, and one from the following: Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain";  Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems.

¸         Save responses on diskette

 

Review

86-103                         Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8                           introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124                     D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems.

339-43                         Darwin

460-465A                Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B                               Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"

582-5                                            How to Post Your Writing

 

 

Apr 9  Return to Waller Creek.

LR BiWeekly Self Observation Due.

¸         As you look at Waller Creek now, focus now on unity, seeing the big picture, in time as well as space perhaps. For examples, see how Jones talks about the Creek flowing for centuries through different stages of civilization, etc. Or think how Darwin would talk about the fossils in the streambed and the age of the limestone. Or think of the whole ecosystem of the creek. Or ……

¸         Incorporate 2 citations from readings on Unity

 

Review

346                                    Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51                         Burch,  "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8                             Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64                         Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

581                                    Directions for Writing in Nature

 

Apr 11 Waller Creek and Oriental Garden web site contributions.

¸         ­In the Waller Creek discussion, incorporate 2 citations from readings below that you have not quoted before. 

¸         In the Oriental Garden discussion, incorporate the answers you made on the form.

¸         Save responses on diskette

 

Review

346                                    Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51                         Burch,  "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8                             Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64                         Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

365                                    "Musical Responses to Nature"

187                                    "The Spirit of the Garden"

188-98                         The Mother Tree

241-5                             Philosopher’s Rock

459                                                      Oriental Garden Discussion Form

582-5                             How to Post Your Writing

 

Apr 16 Spiritual and Aesthetic Responses to Nature

 

¸         Journal Entries Due on Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey  AND one of the following: Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"; Miller, "The Disappearance of God'"; Clark,  The Worship of Nature"; Nuns of Brenham article

 

405-7                                            Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" OR

408-411                     Wordsworth, the Immortality Ode

AND one of the following:

365B-83                    Miller, "The Disappearance of God"

384-5                             "The Worship of Nature"

(386-7                           Forster, introduction)

388-393                     Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

514-5                             Nuns of Brenham

 

Apr 18. Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J.

 

Journal Entry due on Bump, "Hopkins, the Humanities, and the Environment" [G158-164] and either The Windhover,  [G130-145], “God's Grandeur” or  “Inversnaid,”

 

 

593-610                     Bump, "Hopkins, the Humanities, and the Environment" .

348                                   Hopkins,“The Windhover”

397                                    Hopkins,“God’s Grandeur”

400                                    Hopkins,“Inversnaid”

 

Review

125-51                         Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing"

156-158                     (Hopkins, introduction)

575-6                             Hopkins's "The May Magnificat";

253                                    Hopkins,"Binsey Poplars";

397                                    Hopkins,"The Starlight Night";

398-9                             Hopkins,‘Pied Beauty,”

401                                    Hopkins,“As kingfishers”

 

 Return to Biology Ponds.

APRIL 23

Revision of Project 2 Due.  Remember that your grade will be reduced for each error marked on any of the three previous drafts which you repeat. Also very important this time is  58-9                        Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay

Bring Revision of PROJECT 2 to Biology Ponds. Revision of project 2 due in pocket folder with with the copies of essays 1 and 2 on which I commented, the revision of essay 1 with my comment on it, and all suggestions from students for changes to essay 2.

At Ponds

¸         Focus now on unity.

¸         Journals: 1 citation from Forster required

¸         and 1 citation from readings  listed below, or Darwin.

 

Review

589-92                         Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

339-343                     Darwin

388-93                   Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

460-465A                Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B                               Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"

86-103                         Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

107-124                     D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems.

581                                    Directions for Writing in Nature

 

APR 25 SECOND BIOLOGY PONDS WEB.

 

LR BiWeekly Self Observation Due.

¸         Focus now on unity.

¸         1 citation from Forster required

¸         and 1 citation from readings listed below, or Darwin.

 

Review

339-343                     Darwin

388-93                   Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

460-465A                Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B                               Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"

86-103                         Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

107-124                     D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish  poems.

582-5                                            How to Post Your Writing

35-6                    Learning Record Instructions

 

 

Apr 30 Joy in Nature I

 

Journal Entries Due on two or more of the following 

394                                    Wordsworth, "The Excursion"

395                                    Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely"

396                                    Wordsworth, "Lines written in early spring"

156-158                     (Hopkins, introduction)

397                                    Hopkins, “Spring”

399                                    Hopkins, “Hurrahing in Harvest” [the source of my email motto]

401,404                      Hopkins, "As kingfishers catch fire"

402-403                     Hopkins, “The Woodlark”

 

May 2 LR Final Due  due in Par 132 by 3:30 PM: 35-6            Learning Record Instructions

 

MAY 7 PORTFOLIO DUE TO BE DELIVERED  TO PAR 132 BETWEEN 1 AND 3

 

If you want to turn it in earlier and the mail slot is full go to Par 108 and ask that folders be put on desk.

¸         The portfolio consists of the journal, OLR weekly observations, midterm, and final, and printouts of all your contributions to the sycamore, pine, Oriental Garden, and Dobie web pages, to both Waller Creek web pages, to both Biology Ponds web pages, your comments on projects1 and 2 of others, and the road map of your journey.

¸         Please construct a table of contents referring to numbered pages, like the following:

¨         Journal, pp. 1-75 or so  (do not number pages that have less than 1/2 page of text, double spaced if typed)

¨         Project 1 (final version), pp. 76-82,

¨         Project 2 (final version), pp. 83-89

¨         Web Page contributions:

¨         Sycamore and Pine, p. 90

¨         Waller Creek I, p. 91

¨         Biology Ponds I and Dobie, p. 92

¨         Waller Creek II, p. 93

¨         Biology Ponds II, p. 94

¨         Oriental Garden essay (if not on web site), pp. 95-100

¨         Road Map of My Journey, pp. 101-10

¨         LR final, midterm, and weekly observations, pp. 111-?

¨         Comments on essay 1, extra credit comments over required  ten highlighted, pp. ?-- every 3 responses over 10 to first or second essay projects = 1 A or 2 U's

¨         Comments on essay 2, extra credit comments over required  ten highlighted, pp. ? -- every 3 responses over 10 to first or second essay projects = 1 A or 2 U's

¨         Other samples of work and other activities, other comments by others, inspired by OLR or ……pp.

ü         Grades: To get a B on the portfolio you need to meet all the basic requirements perfectly, including table of contents and page numbering.

ü         Grades: to get a straight A on the paper portfolio you need to go beyond that to an achievement in visual rhetoric. Think of this as a portfolio you will be taking to a nature-writing magazine, seeking employment in competition with many others. You would be well advised to have it all typed in one way or another, perfectly proofread, illustrated, etc. and very professional in appearance. Pay special attention to 19A-19K                  Effective Visual Design and 58-9 on unity

¨         Grades: to get a straight A on a web portfolio the requirements are much the same, translated into web terminology. For a good example of how to include all your journal entries in a web portfolio see Lisa’s site. Some other complete portfolios are Katy’s and Kristina’s. Many of the other others are incomplete portfolios in that they handed in the paper version of the journal separately.

May 10: portfolio to be picked up between 12 and 2

in Par 132:

 YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO TO RECEIVE A GRADE IN THIS CLASS

 

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