ENVIRONMENTAL ARGUMENTS 2014
Due Date
Reading
MAN IN RELATION TO NATURE.
2/11-12
2/13
2/14
2/18
2/19-20
2/21
2/21-22
Nature writing over time (in class)
Intro Monkey Wrench Gang, due 3/7
“Seeing” Dillard (13-23*)
“A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time,” J. B. Jackson (31-37*)
Jacobs, Jane. The Life and Death of Great American Cities, 1961. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3
(2008): 122-124. Print.
“The Rediscover of North America,” Barry Lopez (143*)
AP Language Practice essay
Nature in Literature (in class)
“Sense of Place” personal essay. In our daily observances, each of us seems to focus more on one thing than
others; that is, we each seem predisposed to more “in tune” with one aspect of the world than others. Write a
short narrative essay about what you “see” or notice most as you walk through the world.
Multiple Choice Practice Test
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES
2/21, 24
2/25-6
2/28
3/3
3/4-6
3/7
Silent Spring, Introduction + Chapter 1, “Fable for Tomorrow.”
AP Practice Test: Multiple Choice
A Story that Stands Like a Dam excerpt (in class)
Encounters with the Archdruid,” John McPhee (161-190)*. NOTE: THIS IS LONG!!!!!
“Let the River Run Through It,” David R. Brower (311-313)* (in class)
Current Events: Environmental Presentation (focus on water issues)
Monkey Wrench Gang Reading Response
CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTS: GENERAL
3/10-11
3/25-26
3/27-29
4/1
4/2
4/3
4/3
4/4
4/5
“AP Practice Test: Synthesis
No Impact Man. Documentary. Parental permission required
“Story of Stuff” Critique (video in class)
Uprooted, “New Worlds, New Visions” Handlin WR
“Sustainable Table: The Issues”
“How Change is Going to Come in the Food System,” Michael Pollan (1 page)
“Farmer in Chief,” Michael Pollan (13 pg.) Lays out many of the issues of concern about the food industry in a
letter to the president. Read in its entirety—there will be an in-class activity.
Environmental Synthesis
Composition Program, Department of English, Northern Arizona University. A Sense of Place: Physical, Natural, and Cultural
Environments. 2nd ed. New York: Forbes, 1999. NOTE: Pages will vary depending on edition.
Nature Writing Over Time
Cicero. The Nature of the Gods, 45 B.C. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 75-76. Print.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. Oration on the Dignity of Man, 1486. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 86-87.
Print.
Winthrop, John. “Manifest Destiny,” 1628. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 102. Print.
Book of Genesis, 4000 B.C. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 70-1. Print.
Jackson, Andrew. Second Annual Address, 1830. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 165-7. Print.
Marsh, George. Man and Nature, 1878. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 90. Print.
Beston, Henry. The Outermost House, 1928. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 31-2. Print.
Leopold, Aldo. “Arizona and New Mexico.” Sand County Almanac, 1949. A Sense of Place: Physical, Natural, and Cultural
Environments. 2nd ed. New York: Forbes, 1999: 39-44. Print.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring, 1962. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 79-80. Print.
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire, 1968. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 42-43. Print.
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, 1974. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 179-180.
Print.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 154-5. Print.
Hoagland, Edward. Hoagland on Nature, 1999. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 58-59. Print.
Nature in Literature
Shakespeare, William. “Harfleur.” Henry V, 1415. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 110. Print.
Novalis. The Novices of Sais, 1797. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 33. Print.
Jeffers, Robinson. “The Orca.” Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 46. Print.
Wordsworth, William. “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” 1798. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3
(2008): 65-67. Print.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature, 1836. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 88-9. Print.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, 1846. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 42-43. Print.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, 1851. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 156-7. Print.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness, 1902. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 162-3 Print.
Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath, 1930. Lapham’s Quarterly Book of Nature 1.3 (2008): 112-3. Print.