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In class today, we read the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  For Tuesday’s class, create your own imaginative world in poetic form.  The poem should be 5 stanzas with 4 lines in each stanza.  The rhyme scheme is optional.

For Tuesday, 4/1, read “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks” in Desert Solitaire.

In class today, we read pages 75-81 in Frames of Mind and then took notes on the most important points from the introduction.  Then we answered the four questions on page 83 in our writer’s notebook.

For homework, find any descriptive paragraph in Desert Solitaire.  Then write a short response on the following prompt: briefly describe the passage, and then explain Abbey’s purpose for writing this description.

Words due 3/31: fervent, effusion, sledge, emaciate, countenance, benevolence, melancholy, despair, repose, impertinent, amiable, cultivate, irrevocable, harrowing, gallant

Words due 4/7: penury, apparition, indulgence, vehement, predilection, cursory, avidity, elixir, affable, deference

Words due 4/14: lassitude, wretch, pertinacity, trifling, antipathy, irreparable, vivacity, ignominious, irreproachable, indignation, abhor, disdain, malignity, odious

We’ll go quickly through a couple of chapters in Frames of Mind (Description & Illustration). Read Desert Solitaire for Thursday, April 10.  Bring both of these books to class every day until further notice.

• Letters 1-4: Wednesday, 3/26
• Chapters 1-3: Monday, 3/31
• Chapters 4 & 5: Tuesday, 4/1
• Chapters 6-10: Monday, 4/7
• Chapters 11-15: Thursday, 4/10
• Chapters 16-20, Monday, 4/14
• Chapters 21-24: Thursday, 4/17

Shoot these 26 things and upload them to your Photobucket folder by Friday, 3/28: keys, dance, public transport, friend, stop, anxiety, kindness, shoes, words, pattern, not allowed, unfinished business, natural, faith, currency, music, technology, study, copy, art, Friday, emotion, connection, out of place, wheel, sport.

Read the author’s introduction to Desert Solitaire for Monday, 3/17.

Use the information you used in the SIRS draft summary to write a 300-word persuasive essay for Friday, 3/14.

For Thursday, 3/13, combine two or more of the ideas from your previous notebook entries into one coherent essay.  Make sure you cite two quotes and make connections to two of the following: your own experience, something you’ve observed, or something you’ve read.