Week

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

0: 9/24-9/26

9/24 First Plenary
5–6:45, Classroom Unit II

9/25 First section meeting

Readings : Grapes of Wrath , 1–60

1: 9/29-10/3

9/30 Assignment due : Reflective Essay Readings: Grapes of Wrath , 61–152

10/1 Plenary, 8-9:45 pm, Porter Dining Hall

10/2 Readings: Wartzman (wiki)

Readings: Skim Commoner (reader)

2: 10/6-10/10

10/7 Assignment due: Nettrail online quiz http://nettrail.ucsc.edu/ Readings: Grapes of Wrath , 153–324. Optional Isenberg , Reisner (reader)

9/30 Plenary: Provost Rajan

10/9 Assignment due : Integrative Essay #1 (with copies for editing groups)

3: 10/13-10/17

10/14 Assignment due : Revision of Essay #1

Readings: Grapes of Wrath , 325–455, Pollan x 2 (reader)

10/15 Plenary: Melanie DuPuis & Steve Gliessman

Readings: DuPuis (wiki)

Optional readings: Tucker (reader)

10/16

Readings: Schlosser, Steingraber “War” (wiki). Optional: Harden (reader)

4: 10/20-10/24

10/21 Assignment due : Field investigation proposal

Student conferences

Readings : Hawken p 233- Skim Borhan , Optional: Mumford, Hertsgaard (reader)

10/22 Plenary: Dennis High

10/23 Assignment due : Integrative Essay #2 (with copies for editing groups & instructor). Readings: Optional O'Brien (reader)

5: 10/27-10/31

10/28 Assignment due : Purposeful description for field project

Student conferences.

Readings: Jones (reader)

10/29: Plenary: Martin Lewis

10/30 Assignment due : Summaries of background information for field investigation

6: 11/3-11/7

11/4 Assignment due : Annotated revision of Essay #2, with cover letter

Readings: Climate in California (reader)

11/5 Plenary: Angus Wright

11/6 Assignment due :
1 ½ page argument for field project.

7: 11/10-11/14

11/11 NO CLASS
(Veterans' Day)

11/12 Plenary: Fred Turner

11/13 Assignment due : Field Investigation, version #1

8: 11/17-11/21

11/18 Readings: Hawken–“Restoration” (reader)

11/19 Plenary: William Friedland, Celia Scott and Frank Bardacke

Transcript of interviews for field project

  Saturday 11/22  ELWR exam

9: 11/24-11/28

11/25 Assignment due : Sustainability project essay and discussion

No Plenary (Thanksgiving week)

NO CLASS (Thanksgiving week)

10: 12/1-12/5

12/2 Assignment due : Field Investigation, final version (including all materials and early drafts), AND Portfolio of class work ELWR appeals due

12/3 Plenary: Closing lecture with Provost Rajan

12/4 Last section meeting ELWR apperal results

Wr 2 registration reopens (?)