LAST WEEK, WE COVERED THE NUTS AND BOLTS of our American Literature course. Having completed the course expectations and the academic integrity form, and creating a visual roster along with an accurate email group, as well as writing your assessment of the summer reading, we can now get down the business of class. Our first longer text is Krakauer's Into the Wild, the story of Chris McCandless' life and death.

MONDAY

No school for holiday.
In the event you had NOT submitted your email address, taken a photo, posted your paragraph on Frost's "Fire and Ice," or written your review of the summer reading novel, that is something that everyone else has already completed. See Mr. Easton in 330 to to all the above.

TUESDAY

Introduction to unity of study with a poem, and we will listen to the first chapter of the book together. I will review annotation technique and which themes to annotate for in the text.
HW: Type your summer reading critique tonight, verbatim. You should also read chapter one and two of Into the Wild (ITW)

WEDNESDAY

Analysis of the poem "Flames" along with the poster from the DNR's campaign on fire safety in the national parks. I will re-collect the blue books and the typed copy of the critique. We will briefly look at your annotations of chapter 1-2 of ITW.
HW: Read chapters 3 and 4 of ITW.

THURSDAY

Distribution of the wilderness packet, today turning our attention to the painting "American Progress." I will talk about annotation, and students will perform a self assessment of how that's going.
HW: Read chapters 5 and 6 of ITW.

FRIDAY

Continue to look at how wilderness is portrayed visually in art, finishing our study of "American Progress." Today we will look at how wilderness is depicted in the Hudson valley school of landscape art. Today will be part analysis, part lecture, part documentary. We will likewise discuss chapters 3-6 of ITW.
HW: More reading in ITW, reading chapters 7 and 8. Also read the handout on the Turner thesis, due Monday.