due Friday 9/17

1. Please read pages 24-36 in Mythology, or up to the part about the lesser gods.

2. Make progress on your google docs discussion of the painting; complete your column 2, do your column three, begin to discuss your next agreed-upon observation. Once you've spent forty-five minutes, you may stop, no matter where you are.

due Thursday 9/16

read Mythology pp. 13-21

go to your google document, via the invitation emailed to you or by

entering your school account, and

clicking on documents.

Work with your teammates to come up with a "column 2," a thinking and interpreting exploration of your chosen observation/set of related observations. If this part of the assignment takes more than forty-five minutes, you may stop where you are at that point.

due Wednesday 9/15

Write ten observations of the painting "The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise"; find it by googling it, or going to the metmuseum.org site, or clicking on this link:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/the_robert_lehman_collection/the_creation_of_the_world_and_the_expulsion_from_paradise_giovanni_di_paolo/objectview.aspx?collID=15&OID=150000019

Feel free to use the zoom feature.

Bring your observations to class; you don't need to email them to me. (But don't lose them.)

Also bring Genesis 1 and 2 please.

Remember that your description of the way the Igbo people see the world in Things Fall Apart is due Monday.

due Tuesday 9/14

After looking over your chart-work (observations and thinking about your observations), write a three-sentence summary of the way the Igbo people see the world. The first sentence should help orient the reader concerning your subject. The other two should describe patterns (inferences) that you've perceived. Ideally what you write will come out of your chart-work.

Don't be too specific, but don't be too general, either. What you write shouldn't be applicable to other books.

Don't leave out major parts of the book (unless they're not pertinent to the Igbo's way of seeing the world). Don't overload your sentences.

Email these summaries to me please.

Good luck!

due Monday 9/13

1. Write your description of your previous school. Don't forget that you're trying to capture different aspects of your school, not just one.

2. (a) In a sentence or two, summarize your thinking about the ways the Igbo people see the world differently from the way do;

2. (b) In a sentence or two, summarize your thinking about the ways the Igbo people see the world similarly to the way do.

due Friday 9/10

Write two "column 2's" about observations concerning the way Igbo people and we see the world in a similar way.

due Monday: description of your eighth grade school.

due Thursday 9/9

1. Read at http://www.walnuthillfaculty.org/Humanities/ about the Core Analytical Process.

2. a) Five observations that might have some bearing on the way the Igbu people see the world differently from the way people in our culture generally do. Don't try to explain why you think the observation is about the Igbu world-view; just write the observation.

2. b) Five observations that might have some bearing on the way the Igbu people see the world in the same way people in our culture generally do. Don't try to explain why you think the observation is about the Igbu world-view; just write the observation.

due Monday: a description of one of the schools you attended this year.

It should be

coherent: one sentence leads to the next

unified: it should be about one thing (the school you're describing), and most importantly,

understanding: it shows good comprehension of your subject.

Each sentence should be true and specific enough for your purposes.

To get an A, your work should be artful in some way: graceful, elegant, poetic, funny . . .

Homework due Wednesday, 9/8/10

1. Read the course syllabus. I'll email you a copy.

2. Read the Humanities Department Policies under "Other Resources" athttp://www.walnuthillfaculty.org/Humanities/.

3. Re-read chapter __ of Things Fall Apart.

There will be a test on Things Fall Apart sometime next week.

Due Monday:

Write a description of the school/one of the schools you attended last year. It should be about one page, typed and double-spaced. If you would like to show me a draft along the way, please do so.

I will send you a guideline concerning the format of this writing assignment, and information about how it will be assessed.