This week’s featured blogs
Both featured blogs this week put Tuan to work in interesting ways. How might you expand on the discussion of the symbolic value of the windows in the Usher house (in relation to Tuan’s observations...
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Your comments on each others’s posts thus far have been, overall, really thorough and insightful. (I hope the authors of the blog posts are reading them!) Please continue to weigh in this week on these...
View ArticleA reminder for this Thursday, March 31st
PLEASE BRING THREE (3) HARD COPIES of your draft of assignment #2 to class this Thursday IN PREPARATION FOR CLASSMATE INTERVIEWS. Also, please email a copy of your draft as an attached Microsoft Word...
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Hi all, You will be reading “Sonny’s Blues” this weekend and continuing to use Tuan’s notions about “intimate experiences” of place to discuss the significance of specific scenes in Baldwin’s story and...
View ArticleOn commemoration and the importance of quoting with an attention to context…
Hi all, As you continue to revise and send me your final drafts tonight, I thought I’d pass along this very interesting piece that a friend sent me about the quotation that will adorn the new 9/11...
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As we return from break…back in the swing (and spring) of things
Hi all, We won’t meet on Tuesday this week as spring break runs through April 26th. In preparation for Thursday, please see the latest reading assignment posted on the ”readings” page: John McPhee’s...
View ArticleStructuring Your Third Essay
Dear all, As we discussed at the end of class today, think in terms of covering the various aspects of the final paper in the following way: Introduce your particular, literal ”place/space” (which...
View ArticleFor Thursday, May 5th
Please finish Tuan’s book and complete the final reading and blog post (on Thoreau’s “Walking”) for Thursday. I would like both Tuesday and Thursday groups to post, as we will not be blogging next...
View ArticleFinal round of featured blogs
In this final round of featured posts, you will see four possible blogs to which you can respond. Please focus on one, OR reflect on the collective connections made between Thoreau, Tuan, and the...
View ArticleDirections for uploading your videos
Dear all, As some of you have already realized when attempting to post your videos to your blogs, the files are too large to be supported by WordPress. Your best option is to upload your video to...
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