Week Eight: For the Time Being Discussion Week
"I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles." Annie Dillard, "Living Like Weasels"
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8.1 Discussion Board #3
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For the Time Being is a book that blends the historical, spiritual, scientific, and personal into a neat (and sometimes not so neat) package.
For this week's discussion board:
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8.2 Midterm Check-In
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It's midterm week! We are halfway through the reading, discussing, writing, and revising we are going to do for this class.
In honor of this occasion, I would like you to email me and talk about your progress in this course. In the email, please address the following questions:
The purpose of this check-in is to adjust in any areas you need to before we finish drafting, revising, and polishing our work in the second half of the class and preparing for the final submission of your work. |