Essay Assignment #1: A Favorite Place
Assigned: 27 viii08.
Due back: by Friday afternoon 29 viii08
Write the equivalent of one page single-spaced handwriting describing a wild, natural
place that you remember visiting, one that made a strong impression on you. It
could be a mountain meadow, a forest, ocean beach. It should be far enough from
civilization that it was 'natural' if not untouched by humans. Write of your
qualitative feelings, emotions that arose during this time. Then, on the other
side of the paper, write a page about the functions of the plants, insects, animals,
sky, sea in that landscape; that is, how did they inter-relate? What was the life of
this place, and how was it shaped and structured to be as it was? What was the
role of humans in shaping this place? What was your relationship with it (on both
sides of the paper: artistic, emotional and then functional, objective, rational,
scientific)?
You can draft this in your journals (paper or electronic) and put it in the
GoogleDoc. When you do so, mark it as either 'Draft' or 'Final'. Thanks