Class, Homework, and Tomorrow

Good work in class today.

We generated lists of human-created and natural boundaries in Sequoia National Park. Then, students chose one of each to focus on. Students will work in groups to perform skits on their human-created boundaries, and will complete individual projects on their natural boundaries.

First piece of homework for tomorrow, October 17: Students began reading a piece about the Native American groups in the southern Sierra, and have to pose three inquisitive questions that they want answered from the article. Do not begin reading the Exploration and Exploitation section yet.

Second homework for tomorrow: Students must assemble tent groups of three or four (including themselves).

Thirdly, students must put together groups of five to oversee meals. Each group will be responsible for one breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Tomorrow is a wonderful opportunity, as we get to work all morning with John Muir Laws, who has published a beautiful field guide to the Sierra Nevada through Heyday Institute. Laws will share some of his sketching techniques with students to help us capture as much of our experience as possible in Sequoia next week.