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Conflicts in Nature and Society Schedule

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Fall 2013 Daily Schedule

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Conflicts in Nature

1st Quarter

  1. Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild (ITW): A journey in the Alaskan wilderness-  Read chps. 1-5; Jack London's "The Law of Life"
  2. ITW: chapts. 6-8; Excerpts of essays from Thoreau, Tolstoy, London
  3. ITW: chapts. 9-14; Film: Peter Weir'sMosquito Coast (1986 PG)
  4. ITW: chapt. 15- Epilogue; Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007 R)
  5. Conflicts with Wildlife; Supplemental nonfiction readings;  Film: Carroll Ballard's Never Cry Wolf (1983 PG)
  6. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (ITA): An account of an expedition up Mount Everest-  Read chapts.1-6; Film: Nova's "The Death Zone"
  7. ITA chapts.7-10; Supplemental Readings in Extreme Sports
  8. ITA chapts. 11-16;  Film: Danny Boyle's 127 Hours (2010 R)
  9. ITA chapts. 17- end; Supplemental Nonfiction Readings;                 Excerpts from Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm
Conflicts in Nature Essay is due!!!
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  2nd Quarter

Conflicts in Society


 

  1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (OFOTCN) by Ken Kesey; Read pp. 9-91

  2. OFOTCN. pp.92-156; Supplemental materials TBA
  3. OFOTCN. pp.156-218; Film: Girl, Interrupted (1999 R) 

  4. OFOTCN. pp.219-272;  Related readings

  5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1976 R) OFOTCNT Unit test
  6. Excerpts from Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here
  7. Film: Spike Lee's ClockersSupplemental Materials TBA
  8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon  pp. 1-115; Supplemental materials TBA
  9. CIDN  pp. 115-221; Film: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 

Quarter 2 Essay is due with your Portfolio on the last regular class day of the semester!!!

I try to keep the number of assigned pages to an average of 20 pages per night. Some nights you will have more, some less. Quizzes may be announced or unannounced, but are always open-note; you may use any hand-written notes (no Spark-Notes!). I encourage you to take copious notes as you read. Many of the selections will be accompanied by study questions to aid you in taking notes.

There are a number of textbooks assigned for this course. To facilitate matters, I will only issue a textbook for the period of time it will take to read the assigned selection. It is vital that you bring any textbook assigned to you to class each day.

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