October 5

"If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea."-Wallace Stegner

http://espanol.video.yahoo.com/watch/5643464/14801181

Image: Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, two early champions of the parks, in Yosemite, 1903.

Image: In 1892, Buffalo Bill Cody (second from right) and company survey the land at Grand Canyon National Park, 1892

Image: Photographer Ansel Adams at work at Denali National Park.

-Teddy Roosevelt video (from PBS America's Best Idea)

In Groups:

-What devices do you notice Roosevelt or Abbey using? (Pick at least 3 with a partner)

-Take fifteen minutes and try and make your own social or environmental argument using some of Roosevelt/or Abbey's strategies. Post your imitation to the blog using the "comment" function.

Homework: From A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, p. 85, and from My First
Summer in the Sierras, p. 98, by John Muir. (Journal on one)