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WHO ARE YOU? -- said the Caterpillar (repeatedly).  

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 CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:

9-20 Hawk as Power Animal +

9-15 Power Animals; SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION ;9-13 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;  + 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism,  Lord of the Flies; + 9-6  PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic  Imagination,

LOOKING AHEAD:VOTE: MEET AT ALUMNI CENTER/TEXAS EXES opposite the stadium?

Totem animals, Dobie Quiz in class. Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet CLAN ANIMAL ANNOUNCED LEADER: TAYLOR "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet.

VOTE: P2 required service learning excursion to Taylor animal shelter 10-30? 11-6?

9-21  EXTRA CREDIT: TILTS: RITA CHARON BODIES, STORIES, HEALING 7 PM   SAC AUDITORIUM 10 pts. for attendance with selfie taken there; up to 20 more pts. for blog posted in Extra Credit Discussion Board (two images and at least two quotes.).

 

9-22  Group Totem animals, Dobie Quiz in class. Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet CLAN ANIMAL ANNOUNCED

LEADER: TAYLOR

 

9-23  EXTRA CREDIT: TILTS: RITA CHARON LITERATURE AND MEDICINE 9 AM. AT+T 102  10 pts. for attendance with selfie taken there; up to 20 more pts. for blog posted in Extra Credit Discussion Board (two images and at least two quotes.)..

 

9-24 LAST CHANCE TO MAKE THE CASE FOR YOUR CLAN ANIMAL

VOTE ON 9-25

 

9-27 SHAPESHIFTING 

CLAN ANIMAL ANNOUNCEMENT

LEADER: MICHAEL

 

P1a due online 9-29 Rebirth

 

 

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dass Guided Imagery   ["IN FORM"]

three contemporary guided meditations that may help you find a power animal in the Native American tradition:

Steven Farmer

Shamanic

Denise Linn

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

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9-20 Hawk as Power Animal; ETHICS FLAG: SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION

 ASSIGNMENTS:

A EUROPEAN EXAMPLE: Hopkins' "The Windhover"

640                Hopkins's Defintion of Poetry

641                 Bump, Hopkins Bio BRITAIN  GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG

641              "The Windhover + As kingfishers"

643-653            Bump, "The Windhover"

AMERICAN CONTRAST:

654           Jeffers

655            "Hurt Hawks + Vulture"

Abrams, pp. 32-33  discourse of birds

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet; Quiz in class. Discussion of P1 and  today's examples

 

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Avian Power Animals

 

TODAY'S GOALS:

PROJECT GOALS:

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

GOALS RELATED TO Blogs:[2E] Writing + preparing students for [2B] the technological revolution; [2E3].  experience writing as discovery learning. [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 [2I1] “to know thyself.” [2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities); [3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.