Schedule: Unit 1: Visual Analysis

Note: Assigned readings need to be completed and responded to in your notebook by the day they are listed. Homework assignments are due on the day that they are listed.

August 24: Tuesday
-In Class: Music Activity, Introduce Course Policies

August 26: Thursday
-In Class: Mapping Activity
-“Everything Is a Human Being,” by Alice Walker, p. 659
from Leaves of Grass, “This Compost,” by Walt Whitman, pp. 62-63, and "Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood" by Michael Chabon (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/16/manhood-for-amateurs-the-wilderness-of-childhood/) (Journal on one)
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August 31: Tuesday
-In Class: Introduce Photo Project, Disaster and Environment, Spiral Jetty, Heidelberg
-Set up your blog and link it to our 250 class page. Please copy/paste the link as a "comment" on our class schedule
-From Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, pp. 739-752.

September 2: Thursday
-Watch "When the Levees Broke"
-From Refuge, “Epilogue,” (Matthew Boggard) pp. 732-759, Eula Biss essay (will be handed out in class) (Jordan Bose)
(Journal on one)
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September 7: Tuesday
-Introduce "Into the Wild" visual analysis assignment
-Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith, first half (Chelsea Branderhorst)
“Place,” by WS Merwin, p. 716, “The Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, p. 737 (Emily Bright)

September 9: Thursday
-In Class: Listen to Patricia Smith's poetry podcast, share poems, sign up for scene groups
-Imitate one of Patricia Smith's poems integrating your own experience of place, disaster, home, or loss
-Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith, second half. (Journal)-JOURNALS COLLECTED (Cayla Bullerman, Samuel Carlson)
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September 14: Tuesday
-In Class: Begin watching Into the Wild

September 16: Thursday
-In Class: Continue watching Into the Wild
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September 21: Tuesday
-In Class: Discuss film and reading, listen to director interview with Sean Penn
-From Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, pp. 9-25 (Journal) (David Davis)

September 23: Thursday
-In class: Peer Response
--Rough Draft Visual Analysis Due
-“A First American Views His Land,” by N. Scott Momaday, p. 570 (Victoria Foerster)
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September 28: Tuesday
-Conferences in my office, LA 5
BRING YOUR DRAFT, your peer feedback, and your questions/ideas

September 30: Thursday
-Conferences, in my office LA 5
BRING YOUR DRAFT, your peer feedback, and your questions/ideas
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October 2: SATURDAY FIELD TRIP VISIT CASEY PROPERTY
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October 5: Tuesday
-Final Draft Visual Analysis Due
--“Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903,” by Teddy Roosevelt (Clinton Hagedorn)
“Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks,” by Edward Abbey, p. 413 (Kelsey Keiran) (Journal on one)