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9-7 What is Your Totem Animal? EXTRA CREDIT FOR COMING IN FULL LONGORN REGALIA, OR AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN

this window was over the main entrance of the original Main Building

 

Bevo in front of the new Main Building after the 2005 National Championship

 

RUNNING OF THE HORNS up Congress, changing into hybrids, and into the Stadium

 

 

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Dobie's The Longhorns

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our tribal totem, the longhorn

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1dNp9d-AA Ft. Worth longhorn drive

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsVdtb428k

Our son, Tex + Bob, Bumpers the pig, Zoe the donkey at Pied Beauty Ranch

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWIVi_Oa4as&feature=player_embedded   Natasha Bedingfield - Wild Horses

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Dobie's The Mustangs

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TODAY'S GOALS: 

[1C]IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: to understand how to read and follow directions;

PRIMARY GOAL To analyse masterpieces of Texas literature about animals to see how to create a myth that dominates a region and in preparation for your project one about animals

GOALS RELATED TO DISCUSSION BOARDS:[2E] Writing + preparing students for [2B] the technological revolution;

WRITING:  SPECIFIC GOALS

[2A1b] The goal of two of the formal writing assignments, ethics as well as leadership, is to know that which is greater than the ego. [individual vs. group animal] (Better awareness of the world beyond the ego, beyond the conscious self, is not only a characteristic of an ethical person, but also enables a leader to be open to great inspirations and to be able to tap resources far greater than those of an isolated self. )

  [2E5] practice the new writing as the product of conscious, deliberate collaboration as well as isolation, drawing on the help and advice of your fellow students as well as your instructor.

 DIGITAL LITERACY SPECIFIC GOALS

[2B5] increase web 2.0 skills, social networking as in Facebook and Blackboard

  [2E6] experience writing as inspired by and contributing to something greater than the individual ego.

  [2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing.

  [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

INDEPENDENT INQUIRY SPECIFIC GOALS

[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: What does it mean to be a longhorn?

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Meditation, Quiz on Dobie introduction as well as his writings, BLOG DISCUSSION

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

 

RUNNING OF THE HORNS

 

129-133       Dobie introduction

134-151      J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns

152               Longhorns Our Totem Animal?

153-158       Longhorns at U.T.

159-177      J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs

                     171-172               querencia

178-180            Mustangs at U.T. 

181-182       The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry

183-185         Longhorn Origins

186-193          Learning from Longhorns

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REVIEW:

565         The Sympathetic Imagination

Animal as Leader:

Zen Masters, Ekhart Tolle ………………………………………….…….842
"Miao," Dilys Laing………………………………………………….……..843

104-107       Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions

108-118         Animal Speak

119-122         Spirit Animals

123-124         Power Animals table of contents

125                Animal Spirit Guides table of contents

126-128         Power Animals in Bless Me Ultima  Harry Potter, and  Black Elk Speaks

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RECOMMENDED READING: anything about the Texas myth and our totem animals

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: compare your experience of a power or spirit animal with your experience of the longhorns as your totem animal

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LOOKING AHEAD:

2-11 REQUIRED UNIVERSITY LECTURE 6:30 PM  or -20 Whitis and Dean Keaton, CMA Studio 6A

2-12 PROJECT ONE A DUE* by 1:30 PM or -20 per class day

2-12 Meet at the Mustangs statue at 24th and San Jacinto for THE DOBIE WALK: UT's Totem Animals, speeches or -20; 

2-14 NATIVE AMERICAN REBIRTH AND VISION QUEST

 *AT LEAST 400 WORDS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF YOUR POWER ANIMAL DUE   BY 1:30 PM before class.
This is your first draft of Project One, worth 250 points. This section is worth twenty points, and thus -20 if you don't do it.
Aside from getting you started on developing your sympathetic imagination for your first writing project, the purpose of this assignment is to see if you are capable of college-level writing.*  If you are not, you are not ready for this course.
*For the definition of college-level writing and answers to related questions about this assignment see P1 instructions.