seasons in a goldfish bowl

So, folks, don't forget:



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Weekend HW:

CW:

1. Enhanced sensory experience--take a walk somewhere you know well for half an hour. Keep your mind firmly in the present moment, focusing on sensory information. Bring yourself back when you drift away. Then write about it immediately when you return home.
2. Bring in something from your own childhood on Monday.

E3H:

Go to the bulletin boards (bbs). Instructions for how to have literature discussions online can be found at the beginning of the Poetry board. You should go there early and return several times.

E2H:

Compose an essay in which you take any specific principle of Emerson or Thoreau and explore its relevance and connections to the 21st Century. A specific example, from today's class, is Thoreau's notion of Civil Disobedience, that a person who is "more right that his neighbors" is already a "majority of one," and that if the law violates that morality then "I say, break the law." We noted that Rosa Parks did just that and it led to the entire Civil Rights movement, which essentially changed the world. You may, in your essay, combine issues and quotes from our Transcendentalists, but I want you to cite very specific incidents in the modern world that have derived their influence from them. Your goal is to illustrate that the principles of Transcendentalism are alive today and integral to our lives in many ways. This essay should be somewhere between a page and two pages and may be emailed (word file .doc + embedded in email itself) or brought in on Monday.

Note that E3H and E2H will both be discussing literature on Monday. Workshops will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

J: life in a goldfish bowl
music: little plastic castle--ani difranco
silly 70's song: seasons in the sun--terry jacks

kt