 Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 8:30-11 a.m. or by appointment
Midterm Exam - Do any TWO (2) - and ONLY two - of the questions below. In ALL questions, your essay should hinge on the use of quotes. You may use your book if you need to. Use a word processor so you can email the exam as an attachment. If you cannot attach it as an MS Word doc or a Rich Text File, then copy and paste to an email message. I cannot open Word Perfect or Microsoft Works. 1. Discuss both the subtle and the obvious differences in the writings of Cooper and Irving. 2. If you were going to hire either Phyllis Wheatley or Mary Rowlandson to teach a course in multicultural literature, which woman would you hire and why? 3. As a political writers, was Hamilton or Madison more convincing to you? 4. If you were a Time Traveler, and you found yourself back in Jonathan Edwards' congregation, how would you respond to his sermons, and what would you tell him after the sermon was over about religion in the 21st Century? Proofread and revise as much as possible. Important: Email your exam to fitztrick@gmail.com DUE TODAY BY 6:00 P.M. North American Nature Writing Midterm Exam - Do any TWO (2) - and ONLY two - of the questions below.
In ALL questions, your essay should hinge on the use of quotes. You may use your book if you need to. Use a word processor so you can email the exam as an attachment. If you cannot attach it as an MS Word doc or a Rich Text File, then copy and paste to an email message. I cannot open Word Perfect or Microsoft Works. 1. Discuss why Aldo Leopold is still a hero to the environmental movement sixty years after his death. 2. Using either Emerson or Thoreau as a model, explain why and how transcendentalism works for you. 3. When you write in your journal, which writer we have read so far comes closest to being a model and why? 4. What are three of Thoreau's most persuasive reasons why walking is good for us. Do you try to practice any of them? Explain. Proofread and revise as much as possible. Important: Email your exam to fitztrick@gmail.com DUE TODAY BY 6:00 P.M. FITZ's CAREER & JOB POSSIBILITY SITE
1. For starters, go to this Minnesota Public Radio talk show that aired on Wednesday, February 4 at 9:00 A.M. - http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/04/midmorning1/ and spend 45 minutes listening to the story on the "Listen" link at the upper left of this site.
2. Here's a job site referred to in that story: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?displayHome=
3. Think about Teach for America at http://www.teachforamerica.com/
4. Then there's always the Peace Corps at http://www.peacecorps.gov/
5. The BEST site I heard about in the MPR story above is http://www.admissionpossible.org/ - absolutely cool site!!! |