E320M Schedule

All required reading assignments are in Jenn’s xeroxed anthology.

[G = optional pages in Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins PR 4803 H44 Z597, PCL and UGL]

 

Jan 14. INTRODUCTION to the course,

 

ü       Questionnaires to be distributed and collected.

ü       IF computer account number required to logon to class intranet. (New users may claim an IF account at the Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn UGL by completing an IF account request form and presenting it and a government-issued photo ID at the front desk.)

 

Introductory Course Materials.

1-2                            Course Description

3-7                            Reading Schedule

8                                 PC vs. Mac

9-11                         Group Participation Guidelines

12-14                      Guidelines for Listening

15                              Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17                      Sexual Harrassment Policy

                  --Writing Instructions--

[18                                       number not used]

19A-19K                         Effective Visual Design

20                                         Web Projects

25-6       General Grades Definition (see also course description)

27            Teaching Philosophy

 

Jan 16. HTML and Web Sites

ü        

ü       Journal entry [2 copies] on your experience or lack of it of Discovery Learning, p. 18 and the Bump essay:

 

web                          Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism" [connect your browser to

www.dwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html]

 

¸       see ACITS short courses and HTML class schedules:

¸       http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/

¸       see self paced tutorials: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet

¸       Review 31-4 HTML Quick Reference.

¸       If you are interested in possibly making a web site, check out Netscape Composer or Dream Weaver or ….

Review and be ready to ask and answer questions about:

1-2                            Course Description

3-7                            Reading Schedule

8                                 PC vs. Mac

9-11                         Group Participation Guidelines

12-14                      Guidelines for Listening

15                              Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17                      Sexual Harrassment Policy

18            Discovery Learning

19A-19K Effective Visual Design

20            Web Projects

25-6 General Grades Definition (see also course description)

27            Teaching Philosophy

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-6       Learning Record Instructions

 

Jan 21. Sense of Place

ü        

ü       Journal entry [2 copies] on your sense of place, pp. 37-50, 54-58,

[Silverman         pp. 149-150 on keeping a journal]

37-50, 54-58     Crowe, Sense of Place

 

Jan. 23. ROAD MAP OF YOUR PLACES.

 

Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of the various “places” you have experienced over the course of your life. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or …… For electronic examples, see web site. This will become part of your portfolio.

 

77-80 Road Map of Your Journey

 

note that your interview will be due Jan. 30: see 35-6 Learning Record Instructions.

 

Jan. 28 The Roles of Time and the City

 

Journal entry [2 copies] on Crowe 59-76 on Time and the evolution of things ; Nature and the City; man-made world vs. nature

59-76                      Crowe, Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World

 

¸       Bring your calendars so that we can decide in class when we meet at St. Mary’s and at the Japanese Garden in Zilker park, and when we have our class party at my little ranch and set date for Garden and St. Mary’s discussion board entry completions. The Japanese Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the school of architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden": “one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.’

¸       Read about the Oriental garden, the Prehistoric Garden, and the sculptures in Zilker Park.

¸       Locate Pied Beauty ranch.

¸       Check out pictures of these places on our web site.

¸        

 

81-2 Map and Directions to "Pied Beauty" Ranch

83                              Taniguchi Oriental Garden form

84                              "The Spirit of the Garden"

85-6                         Taniguchi biography

87-88                      maps to Zilker Park and Oriental Garden

89-90                      Umlauf sculpture garden

102-106                Philosopher's Rock sculpture

310                           Hartman Prehistoric Garden

 

note that your interview will be due Jan. 30: see 35-6 Learning Record Instructions.

 

 

Jan. 30.Drawing and Architecture

MEET AT the oldest building on campus: LITTLEFIELD HOUSE . 24th and Whitis [in case of rain meet on porch]. Contrast the Littlefield House with the Communications buildings

BRING LR parts A1. A2. due. Initial interview etc. see 35-6 Learning Record Instructions

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¸       We will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the Victorian architecture of the building and the tree. Another will be the contrast with the CMA complex. See web site for examples from previous classes.

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Journal entry to be uploaded to the Littlefield Discussion Board, along with scan of drawing as an attachment by by Feb. 13. Include at least two citations with page nos.

 

91-98                      Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

107-108                Littlefield House

109-135                "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, [136-139 introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin]

 

Feb 4.Gothic Architecture

 

149-176                Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

290                           Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”

 

Review Crowe

 

Upload answers to these questions concerning the Littlefield house to the Littlefield Discussion Board by Feb. 13. Can the influence of John Ruskin’s essay, “On the Nature of Gothic,” be detected in this building? If so, what sentences are illustrated by what features? What sentences are contradicted by what features? Is this building “True to Nature” in Ruskin’s sense? Is this building “True to Nature” in any sense, especially in comparison to other buildings nearby?

 

Feb. 6. Medievalism: Austin to Amiens

 

Go the famous Amiens internet site

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html

and while looking at the “porches” at the front read

177-205                Ruskin, “The Bible of Amiens”

51-3                                      Crowe on saints in niches and body-related perception

 

Review the rest of Crowe

 

Feb. 11. Walking the Forty Acres: Part One

We will leave the classroom and take a tour of some of the buildings on campus. Look for a building on which you might want to do a project and/or presentation.

 

222-230                        Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”

Review Crowe

 

Feb. 13 Adams: Mt. St. Michel and Chartres

 

Journal entry comparing Adams and Ruskin as writers about architecture: how are they similar and how are they different?

 

245-246                Sympathetic Imagination

206-221                Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

 

Review Crowe

 

Feb. 18 . Story of Texas walk

 

LR Statement of YOUR course goals and Monthly Self Observation Due. Include pictures.

 

We will go to the Story of Texas museum, walking from the classroom, noting different architectural styles along the way.

Upload a journal entry on what you learned here about Texas as your “place” or your responses to various kinds of architecture in exhibits to the Story of Texas Discussion Board by February 18. Cite specific exhibits.

 

30            Map of campus               

78            Map of Story of Texas

Review Crowe

 

Feb. 20 Texas Gothic architecture

 

Journal Entries [2 copies] on Survey of Texas Architectural Styles. See web site for pictures:

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E379S2/VicArch.html

140-148                        My Home: A Survey of Texas Architectural Styles

233                           Old Main, University of Texas

234-5                      Victorian homes, Houston

236-242                Victorian buildings, Galveston

243-245                Selected Victorian Eclectic “Gothic” Architecture in Texas

Review

149-176                Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

107-108                The Littlefield Home

 

Are these buildings “True to Nature”?

Are they “True to Nature” in Ruskin’s sense of the words?

Can the influence of Ruskin’s essay be detected in these buildings?

Can you find his six features of Gothic in them?

What sentences are illustrated by what features?

What sentences are contradicted by what features?

 

Feb. 25 Western art:

Meet at Dobie's house, 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.

¸       Check out pictures of the journeys of previous classes to these landmarks on our web site and check out quote from the chancellor about Dobie in our course description.

¸       For statue of Dobie see Philospher’s Rock

¸       http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/rock.html

¸       At Dobie’s house we will see the Texana.

¸       Then we will go on to the statue of the mustangs in front of the Texas Memorial Museum, cited by Dobie.

¸       Then to the Blanton Art museum to see the C. R . Smith Collection of Art of the American West (more than 100 landscapes and Western genre scenes by prominent American artists.)

¸       Then to the statues in front of the Alumni Center.

¸       Then to the Western paintings and sculpture in the Alumni Center

¸       Finally, at the Center you will make journal entries about what you have seen,

¸       At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.

Upload a journal entry to the Dobie discussion board by March 25

 

247-249                The Mustangs

250                           The Longhorn

 

Feb. 27. Writing as an Art.

 

91-98                     Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

99                             Writing the Natural Way

100-101                 Wild Mind

Silverman, pp. 55-58;64-66;69-84; 151-2; 156-166

 

¸       Review

Silverman, pp. 2-54

Our anthology:

1-2                            Course Description

                  Project Instructions

19L        Why spell checkers are not enough

19M                                   Polished Writing Instructions

19A-19K                        Effective Visual Design

20                                         Web Projects

25-6      Grades Definition

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

252-253                          Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

OWL at Purdue University Handouts

254-257              Appositives

258-259 Hyphens

260-263 Verb Tense Consistency

264                          Coherence

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ü       Special instructions:

ü       Remember that, given a focus on place, architecture, art, and music, you have a lot of options, including a web site. In any case, either this project or the next must also become a presentation to the class at the end of the semester. Therefore, also think about a project’s potential as a presentation.

 

Ø       We will not have a class devoted to music, but, following our criterion of Truth to Nature, I have included in our anthology “Musical responses to nature” (305) and, as an example of poetry imitating the music of a bird Hopkins’s “The Woodlark” (291-2). Hopkins wanted his poetry to be performed like music. Hence, for example, the instruction “Rallentando” on the poem “Spring” ( 286), as you will see in the Humanities Research Center.

Ø       If you do an essay, it is to be at least 4-6 pages. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.

Ø       To get an A you will need to show that you are good at communicating details, at making your subject come alive for the reader. (If you do a web page, of course, you can communicate these details often by pictures.)

Ø       Thirdly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26 of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.

¸       *You must include pictures in this assignment. . Paper projects must include two media. This requirement is usually met by inserting electronic files of pictures or photographs into your text and printing the result on good paper with a color printer. [Electronic projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text ]

Ø       The purpose of the pictures is for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common these days of the internet and electronic media and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure or web site. Pay special attention to 19A-19K:”Effective Visual Design”

Ø       Unless your pictures were taken with a digital camera, you will need to digitize them (make them into a computer file) with a scanner. If you are going to use them in a paper essay, set the resolution to at least 300 dpi. If you are going to use them on the web 72 dpi is sufficient. Scanners are available in the SmurF and in Par 6, 102, 104, Fac 9, Fac 10.

Ø       Make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using “Image Size” in Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program to enlarge them, if need be, before you insert them in your text. Remember to set to at least 300 dpi for a paper essay.

¸       Upload First Project to Project 1 discussion board as an Attachment [saved in Microsoft Word format], or as an HTML link to your URL, and polished hard copy in a pocket folder with your name on the outside following instructions in the anthology


¸       Mar. 4 FIRST PROJECT DUE*

on Discussion Board AND on paper

 

¸       Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least half the class in detail, showing them how to rewrite at least one sentence each, suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond. This extra credit can be used to improve your class participation grade. Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.

¸       *How to Respond to Other Students’ Projects.

¸       [1] You must quote a whole sentence of the student’s essay that has not been quoted by a prevous respondent and specify where the sentence needs improvement and then rewrite the sentence to improve it. For the subject line of your reply, paste in the sentence you are going to rewrite so that it will be easier for others to see what sentences are left for revision.

¸       [2] In addition, you must make suggestions on how to add a page or more of new material.

¸       Grading: Remember that responding properly to the correct number of projects before the deadline is not just part of your class participation grade but also, and more importantly, your portfolio grade (30% of your final grade). For your portfolio you will print out all of your responses to other students and their quality will be fairly obvious in that format.

¸       Responses that consist solely of generic phrases, such as “Good Job,” that do not reveal detailed knowledge of the project, will not be acceptable.You must respond in sufficient detail to reveal that you have read the project closely. Let the author of the essay know how it affected you as a reader, where you were pleased, where you got confused, where irritated, etc. In general, evaluate the other students’ essays as works of art. If each essay were, say, a statue, which little as well as big flaws should be corrected?

 

Mar. 6. Walking the Forty Acres: Part Two

We will leave the classroom and take a tour of some of the buildings on campus. Again, look for possible subjects for projects and presentations.

 

222-231                        Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”

Review Crowe

 

Mar. 10-15 Spring Break

 

Mar 18. DRAWING, WRITING, AND ARCHITECTURE: SYCAMORE VS. HRC.

 

ü       Weather permitting, we will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front of the Humanities Research Center building. There we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the tree and the modern architecture of the building

Journal entry due {2 copies} on 109-135 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing, quoting different parts than you cited before. To be uploaded, along with drawing as attachment to Sycamore discussion board by Mar. 25

Related materials that can also be included:

136-139                                  (introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin)

91-98                      “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”

 

Mar. 20 HRC interior: Hopkins, the PRB, and Tom Lea

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J, and the Pre-Raphaelites

Meet at the main entrance of the Harry Ransom Center

 

q        Revised Project due. Remember your grade will be reduced for each error that is repeated from your first draft! Follow suggestions in 293-6 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

q        Turn in to instructor in the pocket folder with your name on the outside:

¸       [1] revised project with ALL changes, even the smallest periods and commas, HIGHLIGHTED

¸       [2] the first project with instructor's original comments and

¸       [3] a print-out of suggestions from other students with suggestions you liked best HIGHLIGHTED

ü       [4] follow suggestions in Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

 

 

Journal Entry on Hopkins’s drawings (see below) and/or “Spring,” and/or “In the Valley of the Elwy” and/or the Rossetti and/or Morris holdings of the HRC

 

265-266                Some Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting

267-268                Pre-Raphaelite Art at the HRC

269-270                Rossetti, introduction

271-275                William Morris at the HRC

276-285                Bump, Catalogue of the Hopkins Collection

286                           Hopkins, “Spring”;

286-7                      ‘In the Valley of the Elwy”

 

Preparation for our visit to Hopkins’s drawings in the HRC: review 109-135 and check out 276-285 and go to

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/images/Hopkins/

Here are pictures of some of the drawings (or ones similar to them) that we will see at the HRC are listed as drawings1.jpg, drawings3.jpg, and drawings4.jpg Consider:

And/Or Journal entry answering these questions :

1.How are these like and unlike the drawings you and others made of the sycamore and the pine?

The trees Hopkins saw include treeline.jpg and oak2.jpg, (use oak.jpg as a closeup).

2.What if anything did you learn from the drawing/writing exercises at the HRC sycamore and the Littlefield pine?

4. What if anything did you learn from seeing Hopkins’s writing in the original manuscripts?

5. What if anything did you learn from seeing the Pre-Raphaelite materials?

 

Mar. 25 Painting Nature: 19th c. Britain: Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites

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¸       .LR List of Goals and Monthly Self Observation Due. (on how well you are meeting your course goals) 35-6 instructions.

 

Journal Entries [2 copies]: on the following: ‘Some Characteristics,” Hopkins's "The May Magnificat"; "Binsey Poplars"; "The Starlight Night"; [G41-2, 58-59, 65-66, 31-2, 146-148]. Basic question: how does Hopkins’s “wordpainting” reflect the characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite art?

 

265-266                Some Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting

267-268                Pre-Raphaelite Art at the HRC

269-270                Rossetti, introduction

271-275                William Morris at the HRC

286                           Hopkins, “The Starlight Night”

289-90                   Hopkins, “the May Magnificat”

290                           Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars” [G156-7]; 578-9                  

 

Mar. 27 Painting Nature: 19th c. France:The Impressionists

 

Journal Entry [2 copies]: write your responses to two Impressionist paintings of nature of your choice. You can use any sources you wish, though you must provide documentation for whatever source[s] you use.

                  If you want to use the web you can start with the sites below. The first is about the whole Impressionist school; the second shows how to move from that site to a specific painter, in this case Monet; the third and fourth are alternative Van Gogh sites; the last two are sites from students in this class in the past focusing on their favorite paintings.

 

www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism

www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet

www.vangoghgallery.com

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E379S/fall97/windy/cmonet/monet.html

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E379S/fall97/lisa/gogh.html

 

To get some idea of the possible relation between painting and

poetry I have designed two pages: on Hopkins and Monet, on Hopkins and

Van Gogh.

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/Hopkins1.html

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/Hopkins2.html

 

Another possible journey entry:

check out the Spanish architecture of Gaudi, a contemporary of Impressionism. Is he more true to nature than any other architect we have encountered?

 

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/mila.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/puertafm.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/batllo.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/colniag.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/parkgell.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/eltemple.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/storage.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/hotel.html

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/school.html

 

Apr 1 Landscape architecture .

Meet at Biology Ponds [Tower Garden] north of the Tower

 

¸       Compare to Taniguchi garden, Ft. Worth Japanese garden, Versailles, Blenheim, etc.

¸       Check out previous classes at work here on our web site

¸       Journal at ponds incorporating 1 citation from Arnold and 1 from Forster. Upload to Tower Garden Discussion Board by April 10.

¸       At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.

[Items in parentheses do not count]

 

(248                         Berry, “Botanical Pools”)

22-4       Arnold, introduction, and “Kensington Gardens”

(297-8                    Forster, intro.)

299-304                Forster, “The Other Side of the Hedge”

 

¸       For help with ideas for project 2 due April 8 see Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind.

 

Apr 3 Western art:

Meet at Dobie's house, 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.

¸       Check out pictures of the journeys of previous classes to these landmarks on our web site and check out quote from the chancellor about Dobie in our course description.

¸       For statue of Dobie see Philospher’s Rock

¸       http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/rock.html

¸       At Dobie’s house we will see the Texana.

¸       Then we will go on to the statue of the mustangs in front of the Texas Memorial Museum, cited by Dobie.

¸       Then to the Blanton Art museum to see the C. R . Smith Collection of Art of the American West (more than 100 landscapes and Western genre scenes by prominent American artists.)

¸       Then to the statues in front of the Alumni Center.

¸       Then to the Western paintings and sculpture in the Alumni Center

¸       Finally, at the Center you will make journal entries about what you have seen,

¸       At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.

Upload a journal entry to the Dobie discussion board by March 25

 

247-249                The Mustangs

250                           The Longhorn

 

April 8: SECOND PROJECT DUE

In Discussion Board AND on paper *

 

¸       In your choice of a subject, remember you need to able to turn one of your projects into a presentation.

¸       Post Second Project on Project 2 Discussion Board and hand in polished hard copy, along with both versions of project 1 (with instructor comments), in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. [Multmedia projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text , etc.]

¸       Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least the other half of the class (vs. the half you responded to for the first project) in some detail (at least four sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what sentence they could improve, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the first half of the class to whom you respond.

¸       Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.

ü       If it is not appropriate for your subject (say music), you do not need to include pictures this time if you do not want to do so, though they help in the grade for the portfolio. (The purpose of the pictures was for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common in the field these days and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure.)

ü       If you do include pictures, make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program.

ü       If you do an essay, it is to be the same size: 4-6 pages. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.

ü       If you add on to your web site, you need 2-3 pages of new text to make an A, unless you make creative HTML changes such as the addition of sound.

ü       To get an A in your writing, whether in the essay or web format, you will need, first of all, to avoid the problems cited in the first two project drafts, especially those I stressed on the second draft.

ü       Secondly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26 of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.

¸        

293-6                      Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay

Silverman, on the errors you tend to make.

91-98                      Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

99                              Writing the Natural Way

100-101                Wild Mind

Silverman, pp. 55-58;64-66;69-84; 151-2; 156-166

 

¸       Review

Silverman, pp. 2-54

Our anthology:

1-2                            Course Description

19L        Why spell checkers are not enough

19M                                    Polished Writing Instructions

19A-19K                         Effective Visual Design

20                                         Web Projects

25-6       Grades Definition

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

252-253                           Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

OWL at Purdue University Handouts

254-257                Appositives

258-259 Hyphens

260-263 Verb Tense Consistency

264                           Coherence

 

Oriental Garden and St. Mary’s Discussion Boards

¸       In the Oriental Garden discussion, incorporate the answers you made on the form on p. 83

¸       In the St. Mary’s Discussion Board upload a journal entry about the place citing Adams and/or Ruskin.

 

Review

83                              Taniguchi Oriental Garden form

84                              "The Spirit of the Garden"

85-6                         Taniguchi biography

87-88                      maps to Zilker Park and Oriental Garden

89-90                      Umlauf sculpture garden

102-106                Philosopher's Rock sculpture

149-176                Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

 

Apr 10- Apr 24 student led walks and presentations

Apr 10 LR Goals self observation due

 

Apr. 29 Taniguchi garden excursion compensation day, but

Revision of Project 2 Due. Remember that your grade will be reduced for each error marked on any of the three previous drafts which you repeat. Also very important this time is

Bring Revision of PROJECT 2 to Par 132 in pocket folder with the copies of essays 1 and 2 on which I commented, the revision of essay 1 with my comment on it, and all suggestions from students for changes to essay 2.

May 1 St. Mary’s vs. Capitol excursion compensation day

 

May 6 LR Final Due due in Par 132 by 10:45

35-6 Learning Record Instructions

 

May 9 PORTFOLIO DUE TO BE DELIVERED TO PAR 132 BETWEEN 2 and 3

 

If you want to turn it in earlier and the mail slot is full go to Par 108 and ask that folders be put on my desk.

Check out electronic versions of portfolios of previous classes on our web site.

¸       The portfolio consists of Projects 1 and 2, the complete journal; LR A1, A2, List of Goals, monthly observations, and final; printouts of all your contributions to all the Discussion Boards: Littlefield, Story of Texas, Dobie, Sycamore, Tower Garden, St. Mary’s, Oriental Garden; your comments on projects1 and 2 of others, and the road map of your journey.

¸       Please construct a table of contents referring to numbered pages, like the following:

¨       Journal, pp. 1-45 or so (do not number pages that have less than 1/2 page of text, double spaced if typed)

¨       Project 1 (final version), pp. 46-51

¨       Project 2 (final version), pp. 52-58

¨       Web Page contributions:

¨       Littlefield (with drawing), p. 59-60

¨       Story of Texas, p. 61

¨       Dobie, p. 62

¨       Sycamore (with drawing), pp. 63-4

¨       St. Mary’s, p. 65.

¨       Oriental Garden, p. 66

¨       Road Map of My Journey, pp. 67-73

¨       LR A1, A2, List of Goals, final, and monthly observations, pp. 74-?

¨       Comments on other people’s project 1

¨       Comments on other people’s project 2

¨       Extra credit

¨       Any other samples of course work and other nature-related activities,

¨       Grades:

¨       To get a B on the portfolio you need to meet all the basic requirements perfectly, including table of contents and page numbering.

ü       Grades: to get an A on the paper portfolio you need to go beyond that to an achievement in visual rhetoric. Think of this as a portfolio you will be taking to a nature-writing magazine, seeking employment in competition with many others. You would be well advised to have it all typed in one way or another, perfectly proofread, illustrated, etc. and very professional in appearance. Pay special attention to 19A-19K                  Effective Visual Design and 58-9 on unity

¨       Grades: to get an A on a web portfolio the requirements are much the same, translated into web terminology. For a good example of how to include all your journal entries in a web portfolio see Lisa’s site. Some other complete portfolios are Katy’s and Kristina’s. Many of the other others are incomplete portfolios in that they handed in the paper version of the journal separately.

YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO TO RECEIVE A GRADE IN THIS CLASS: May 14 11-1 last day to pick up portfolio

 


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