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Date Day Reading due today Links, Misc
14-Jan M
16-Jan W

Assignment due Today

Discussion (reading due)

  • Ecocriticism: Positions, Animals

Activity

  • Wiki: Defining our terms
18-Jan F

Assignment due today

Discussion (reading due)

  • The Sixth Extinction, chapter 1

Activity

 
21-Jan M MLK--No Class
23-Jan W

Assignment due today

Discussion (reading due)

  • SE (SE) Chapter 6

Activity

Films:

25-Jan F

Assignment due today

Discussion (reading and film due)
28-Jan M

Assignment Due Today

Discussion (reading)
30-Jan W SE 10, The Girl who loved Animals
1-Feb F

Assignment due today

Discussion

  • Reading
  • Volunteer assignment
 Reminder: Read the first 14 chapters of Prodigal Summer by Wednesday
4-Feb M
  • No class so you can read Prodigal Summer and investigate the volunteering options
6-Feb W

Reading:

  • Prodigal Summer (PS) chapsters 1-14 (to page 220): Answer discussion board questions on Blackboard by Friday

Activity

  • Visit from Kaleb Lynch, shelter director at Catman2, and Chris Tyson from Jackson Animal Shelter

 
8-Feb F No class: online activity
11-Feb M

Assignment

Reading:

  • The Home Place Introduction. Chapter 10-14 (21 pages)

 

  
13-Feb W

 

  • Shepherd, The Netherlands Lives with Water
  • Come ready with one discussion question and one quotation with an extremely interesting description. (We'll talk about why you like it).

Activity

  • Visit from Adam Bigelow, Community Garden Project
 Cli-fi
15-Feb F

Reading and Homework:

  • Shepherd, The Netherlands Lives with Water
  • Come ready with one discussion question and one quotation with an extremely interesting description. (We'll talk about why you like it)
18-Feb M

Assignment

Reading and Homework

  • Dogland 1-50
20-Feb W No class--work on Dogland reading
22-Feb F

Assignment:

25-Feb M DiBlieu 3-29
27-Feb W
  • Assignment: : Herzog chapter 4: Friends, foes, and fashion statements
  • Activity: Visit from author Hal Herzog
1-Mar F  
4-Mar M

DiBleiu 67-87; take home miderm assigned

 
6-Mar W Environmental Racism; Black Girl on Fire (BB)
8-Mar F Dark Waters; Grammar of Animacy (BB)
11-Mar M SPRING BREAK
13-Mar W SPRING BREAK
15-Mar F SPRING BREAK
18-Mar M

Midterm due

Prodigal Summer, second half
20-Mar W Film: Food, Inc.
22-Mar F "" "" Lit festival starts Thursday
25-Mar M Animal Liberation, Chapter 3 Lit Fest
27-Mar W

Herzog chapter 7

  • Herzog's blog about his argument with Laura Wright (tomorrow)
 Lit Fest
29-Mar F

Wright, chapter 4 OR 5 as assigned

  • Wright's blog about the argument with Herzog
 Lit Fest
1-Apr M Eisley, "How flowers changed the world"
3-Apr W Film: Botany of Desire
5-Apr F "" Reading
8-Apr M First half of Oryx and Crake
10-Apr W First half of History of Bees
12-Apr F

Part of a movie on seeds
15-Apr M

Maybe one
17-Apr W No  Class
19-Apr F No  Class
22-Apr M Falter; Seed movie starting at 28:00
24-Apr W

Pleistocene Park

26-Apr F Tracking ivory
29-Apr M Second half of Oryx and Crake
1-May W Second half of History of Bees
3-May F Final paper due between now and Tuesday, May 7 at 5 PM
7-May T 3-5 PM English 206 Exam
9-May R 8:30-11 English 390 Exam
10-May F 8:30-11 English 431 Exam