Chapters 4 and 5 provide a number of different examples of “sense of place.”
Now, it’s time for you to consider the ways that selected texts in these chapters as well as our supplemental texts help to inform or shape the ways that you/we think about and behave towards those beings with whom we share the planet.
Assignment: Select three pieces from writers from three different cultural backgrounds and compare and contrast their perceptions about place. What do you find as the common thread, and how does that influence the ways that we think about place from a human, albeit anthropocentric, perspective? HERE ARE THE SELECTED TEXTS NEEDED FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT: Buckeye, by Scott Russell Sanders// Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irvin// Curandera, by Pat Mora.
Requirements:
These short essays are designed to reflect upon, and often to apply, ideas from specific literary texts of study. All of them require analysis of the texts, but many are creative, philosophical, scholarly, and/or experiential in nature as well.
Your mini-essay must
Incorporate three texts from the chapter(s).
Clearly identify the ways in which your analysis/discussion of the three texts are interrelated–i.e. in a thesis.
