Ecology of Language and Place, Spring 2009
Subject to revision updated 4-15-09
Revised 4-15-09
WEEK 1
Writing & Walking
Monday 3-30
-Introduction: 6:00-6:30
-Film: 6:30-7:30.
“Teachings of the Tree
People.”
Workshop 1: 7:30- 8:00.
-Writing Workshop 2:
8:00-10:00
Writing & Walking w/
Linda Hogan
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See Drupal site for
Syllabus, weekly
reading assignments,
handouts, & details each
week.
-Seminar paper due each
week.
Due: See Reading
Response 1 for details. -
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Wedsnesday 4-1
Language &
Linguistics: 6:00-7:30
Structure in Language
Library Mac Lab
7:30-8:30
Computer Workshop-
Rick
Introduce “Writing
Assignment 1: Writing,
Walking, Rolling, and
Blogging (or Blogging
as Writing Space)”
Rebecca
Seminar: 8:00-10:00
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Due -Seminar paper 1
-Review
WEEK 2
Pilgrimage & Practice
Monday 4-6
Zalmi (esweli?) Zahir:
Weaving & Words—
the language of
Basketry Traditions.
-Basketry Stories, songs
and cedar rope-making
workshop.
Workshop 3: Writing
with the Senses
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Due-
Review Zeke’s
Lushootseed Alphabet
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Wednesday 4-8
Language
&Linguistics:
-Writing Workshop 4:
Profile of Yourself as a
Writer
-Seminar
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Due – Seminar paper
See website for details on readings & assignments.
WEEK 3
Power Places:
Living Locally
Monday 4-13
Workshop 5--Local
Places: Library
Research Scavenger
Hunt and Bioregional
Literacy Quiz. Meet at
reference desk at 6:00.
Writing Workshop 6:
Writing & Walking w/
Thoreau & Hogan
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Wednesday 1-15
Language
&Linguistics:
-Elements of Good
Writing
-Seminar
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Due-Seminar paper
Weekly Program Schedule 1
WEEK 4 WEEK 5
Powerful People: The Elders Have a
Sense of Place Way of Teaching
Monday 4-20 Monday 4-27
Language &
Writing Workshop 7: Linguistics:
Powerful People
“Inheritance Of Tools,” -Writing Workshop 8:
Saunders; “The Village Editing Workshop- First
Watchman,” Williams. Draft—Sense of Place
Essay.
Language ----------------------------
&Linguistics: 8:00- Due: (3 or 4 copies)
First draft of “Sense of
10:00.
Place” essay.
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Due –review website ---------------------------
Wednesday 4-29
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Wednesday 4-22
Pauline Hillaire
“The Art of the Essay,”
Dr. Olivia Archibald, Mid Quarter Potluck:
Chair of the English
Department, St. Martins Writing Workshop 9:
Poetry Writing
University.
Activities
-Seminar:
-Seminar
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Due- Seminar paper.
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Due- Seminar paper
FIELDTRIP
Saturday 5-2
1:00-4:00
Grandmothers Counsel
the World
International Council of
Thirteen Indigenous
Grandmothers
The Evergreen State
College, Daniel J.
Evans Library, 2nd
Floor Lobby.
Ecology of Language and Place, Spring 2009
Subject to revision updated 4-15-09
WEEK 6
Grandmothers Council
the World
Monday 5-4
Unsold Guest Lecture
Series: Visit with Rita
Long Visitor Holy
Dance; Council of 13
Grandmothers
-Writing Workshop 10-
Poetics of Place-
Mountains, Forests, &
Saltwater.
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Due –review website
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Wedsnesday 5-6
Language &
Linguistics:
-Seminar
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Due -Seminar paper
WEEK 7
The Earth is Our First
Teacher
Monday 5-11
The Practice of Editing
& Revision: A Writing
& Editing Workshop w/
Victoria Larkin, TESC
Writing Center.
-Writing Workshop 11:
Editing Workshop-
Second Draft—Sense of
Place Essay.
Animal Communication
or
Sacred Springs and Eco-
Feminism Lecture
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Due: (3 or 4 copies)
Second draft of “Sense
of Place” essay.
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Wednesday 5-13
Language &Linguistics:
Possible Films:
“XeVuseda, Teachings
of the Heart, “Thomas
Berry, The Great Story,”
or “The Linguists.”
-Seminar
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Due-
-Seminar paper
Weekly Program Schedule 2
See website for details on readings & assignments.
WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10
The Language of Birds Finding the Voice in Final Presentations
and Animals all Things
Monday 6-1
Monday 5-18 Monday 5-25
Final Potluck
Zalmi (esweli?) Zahir: Memorial Day, Teaching
the language of Birds No Class Writing—Small Group
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-Writing Workshop Due –Post Final Drafts ----------------------------
of “Sense of Place Due: Portfolios of all
---------------------------- Essay” on our program written work
Due –review website website. ---------------------------
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Wednesday 5-20 Wednesday 5-27
Final Potluck
Language Language
&Linguistics: Teaching
&Linguistics:
Writing—Small Group
Presentations
Possible -Seminar:
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Lecture/Workshop: The Readings of poetry and
Earth is our First Due- Seminar paper
narratives.
Teacher--Tracks, signs,
& symbols—Stories of ----------------------------
plant and animal Due: 3 Copies (signed)
communication, of self and faculty
or evaluations.
Sacred Springs and Eco-
Feminism Lecture
-Seminar
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Due-Seminar paper