Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Starter:  Why stay in Chernobyl?  Because it's home.


 Goals for today:  
  • Familiarize yourself with some frameworks of "sense of place" as characterized by relationships to place and community attachments. 
  • Continue to define sense of place for yourself.
  • Generate ideas and creative thoughts!
  • Learn about the nation’s largest and oldest river conservation organization, Trout Unlimited,  through the presentation of Ty Churchwell. 

"A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” —Rebecca Solnit



2. Sense of Place Essays from Orion Magazine


TOGETHER:  Read "Traverse City, MI" 
  • PAIR SHARE:  Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here?  What sort of relationship to the place does the author have?  How would you characterize is his community attachment?  
READ AT LEAST 3 MORE (PERHAPS YOU ALREADY DID SO?) yourself, asking the same questions of each. Note your connections and observations in your journal.  For each, quote the text where you see these elements.  (Label the entry "Orion Essays" and indicate which essay you read.)
  • Which of the categories of sense of place seem to apply here?  
  • What sort of relationship to the place does the author have?  
  • How would you characterize his/her community attachment?  
  • Does the author reveal his/her environmental ethic?  

 Suggested reads:

INSPIRATION JOURNAL:   Expand on yesterday's entry in an attempt to characterize further your relationship with that place and/or your community attachment.   Use rich details!

3rd period
Guest Speaker, Ty Churchwell from Trout Unlimmited
•TU is America’s oldest and largest river conservation non-profit organization:  54 years as an org and 150,000 members across the country
•Ty is on the staff with our public land division, the ‘Sportsmen’s Conservation Project’ (SCP)
•SCP is headquartered in Durango with staff of 30 in all eleven western states
•He represents hunters/anglers in discussions of our public lands and riversrs