Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Tuesday, February 23rd

Starter 2.23: Please share out any thoughts, questions, observations, quotes, wonderings about transcendentalism, Thoreau, Whitman, etc....

JOURNAL #12: Respond to Nick Jans' exchange with your fellow Osprey

Intertextuality! Analyze my former student Keiran's ('17) exchange with Alaska author Nick Jans (who is quoted by Krakauer on page 71-72).  

1. Does this perspective change which corner you may have been in last week for "Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey" or where you might fall on this question?

AND

2. What wisdom might we glean from this communication about interpretation or intertextuality? OR What do you think about "Reader Response" theory that says that audience of a text plays an active role in determining its meaning?

AND/OR

OPTIONAL JOURNAL 12b: Read "Going Alone" by Nick Jans and add some thoughts in your journal.


WORK TIME

GET STUFF DONE!!!

PLEASE FILL OUT YESTERDAY'S SURVEY if you haven't already!!!!

OR 

OPTIONAL SESSION ON WALT WHITMAN with Jessica

  1. SHARE out thoughts/experiences/criticisms
  2. Which way does your beard point tonight?