Engl
1028 Honors Composition II Special Topic: Global Warming
O'Donnell,
ETSU, Fall 2016
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last update: November 13, 2016
Notes:
Class meets TR 12:45-2:05pm, Burleson
301.
GWR = The Global Warming Reader, edited by McKibben, 2011
Reading assignments beyond week 7 will
be added to this calendar as the semester proceeds.
Week
1 (Tues
Aug 23; Thurs Aug 25)
Tuesday:
Introductions
Thursday:
Read the following five articles, online:
- "Think It’s Hot Now? Just
Wait." By Heidi Cullen. The New York Times, August 20, 2016. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-review/climate-change-hot-future.html
- "Global Warming Explained, In
About A Minute." By Tania Lombrozo. National Public Radio, December 16,
2013. www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/12/15/251437395/global-warming-explained-in-about-a-minute
- "Flooding in the South Looks a
Lot Like Climate Change." By Jonah Engel Bromwich. The New York Times, August 16, 2016. mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/climate-change-louisiana.html
(Also read the reader comments on the article--the ones filtered as "NYT
Picks".)
- "In NC, dangerous delays and
delusions on sea-level rise." Op-Ed. The
News & Observer (Charlotte NC), July 9, 2016. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article88567407.html
- "Nature Conservancy Study Shows
Appalachian Mountains To Be A Climate Change ‘Stronghold’." By Russell
McClendon. Huffington Post, June 6,
2012. www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/nature-conservancy-study-global-warming_n_1574671.html
- "Scientists Locate Natural
'Strongholds' across Southeast US that Could Protect Nature in the Face of
Climate Change: Work continues to locate more climate-resilient landscapes
across the United States." The Nature Conservancy website, June 2, 2014. www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/areas/centralappalachians/newsroom/central-appalachians-climate-change-strongholds.xml
Also
on Thursday, bring the 3 required books to class: The Global Warming Reader; The
Sixth Extinction; and Flight
Behavior: A Novel.
Week
2 (Tues
Aug 30; Thurs Sep 1)
Tuesday:
Read the following, online:
- "Rachel Carson’s Critics Keep On,
But She Told Truth About DDT." By Richard Conniff. Environment 360: Reporting, Analysis, Opinion & Debate. Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. September 10, 2015. e360.yale.edu/feature/rachel_carsons_critics_keep_on_but_she_told_truth_about_ddt/2908/
- "Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill
Millions of Africans: How the 50-year-old campaign against Silent Spring still distorts environmental debates." By
William Souder. Slate dot com, online
magazine. September 4, 2012. www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html
Also
for Tuesday, browse the following three websites. Due: Write a memo to me and your classmates, commenting on those
websites. Bring the memo to class, prepared to pass it around and to discuss.
thinkprogress.org/tagged/climate
Thursday:
In GWR, read "Introduction" by McKibben, p9-15. Browse Part I and
read "The 'Anthropocene'" by Crutzen and Stoermer, p69-72; "The
Scientific Consensus..." by Oreskes, p75-78; and "Causes..." by
Masters, p89-93.
Week
3 (Tues
Sep 6; Thurs Sep 8)
Tuesday:
Due: Mini
review essay #1.
Also
for Tuesday, read the following in GWR: Excerpt from Earth in the Balance by Al Gore, p97-103. Excerpt from "The
Battle for Control of Reality" by Ross Gelbspan, p105-125.
Thursday:
In GWR, read "This is Fucked Up..." by McKibben, p251-257; and
"Climate Rage" by Klein, p239-248.
Week
4 (Tues
Sep 13; Thurs Sep 15)
Tuesday:
Due: Mini
review essay #2.
Also
for Tuesday, read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of The Sixth Extinction, by Kolbert.
Thursday:
In Kolbert, read Chapters 2 and 3.
Week
5 (Tues
Sep 20; Thurs Sep 22)
Tuesday:
Due: Topic
proposal for your annotated bibliography and research project.
Also
for Tuesday, in Kolbert, read Chapter 4.
Thursday:
In Kolbert, read Chapters 5 and 6.
Week
6 (Tues
Sep 27; Thurs Sep 29)
Tuesday:
Due: Mini
review essay #3.
Also
for Tuesday, in Kolbert, read Chapter 7.
Thursday:
In Kolbert, read Chapters 8 and 9.
Week
7 (Tues
Oct 4; Thurs Oct 6)
Tuesday:
Due: Mini
review essay #4.
Also
for Tuesday, in Kolbert, read Chapter 10.
Thursday:
In Kolbert, read Chapters 11 and 12.
Week
8 (Fall
Break; Thurs Oct 13)
Thursday:
Due: Mini
review essay #5.
Week
9 (Tues
Oct 18; Thurs Oct 20)
Tuesday:
Due: Rough draft of annotated
bibliography. Bring 2 extra copies (a total of 3 copies) to class, and be prepared
to share your draft with classmates, in a writing workshop.
Thursday: Read the following:
- "Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help,"
by Coral Davenport, in The New York Times, August 28, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/us/politics/coal-country-is-wary-of-hillary-clintons-pledge-to-help.html
- "We Can Stop Searching For The Clean Energy Miracle. It’s Already
Here." By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress dot org climate blog, May 12, 2016. thinkprogress.org/we-can-stop-searching-for-the-clean-energy-miracle-its-already-here-fcf5ec3b355f
Week 10 (Tues Oct 25; Thurs Oct 27)
Tuesday: Read the following:
- Algae Biofuel Still In
Play Despite Low Oil Prices, Says NREL," by Tina Casey, at CleanTechnica
dot com, February 10th, 2016. cleantechnica.com/2016/02/10/algae-biofuel-still-play-despite-low-oil-prices-sez-nrel/
- "Science confirms
it: Denial of climate change is all about the politics," by Chelsea
Harvey, in the Washington Post,
February 22. www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/22/science-confirms-it-denial-of-climate-change-is-all-about-the-politics/
Thursday: Class cancelled.
Week 11 (Tues Nov 1; Thurs Nov 3)
Tuesday: Due:
Annotated bibliography, revised and submitted for a grade.
Thursday: Read the following:
- "Trump and the
Truth: Climate-Change Denial," by Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, October 13, 2016
[one installment in the New Yorker's "Trump and the Truth"
series].
www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-the-truth-climate-change-denial
- "Keep it in the
Ground: a poem a day.--A series of 20 original poems by various authors on the
theme of climate change curated by the UK's poet laureate Carol Ann
Duffy," The [Manchester, UK]
Guardian, 2015. Listen to and read
at least a few of the poems. www.theguardian.com/environment/series/keep-it-in-the-ground-a-poem-a-day
Week 12 (Tues Nov 8; Nov 10)
Tuesday: Due:
Rough draft of your research project. Bring 2 extra copies (a total of 3
copies) to class, and be prepared to share your draft with classmates, in a
writing workshop.
Thursday: Read Kingsolver's novel, Flight Behavior, at least through chapter 5 (through p122).
Also read "How to
Mark a Book," a short essay by Mortimer Adler, originally published in
1941, posted here: chuma.cas.usf.edu/~pinsky/mark_a_book.htm
Due: In the form of a memo, addressed to
both me and your classmates, write a response to Kingsolver's novel, so far.
Write at least a page or so, responding to any aspect of the
book. Consider: How do you like the writing? Do you
find any of the characters particularly interesting? What do you
think of the way the people of upper East Tennessee are
portrayed? How do you respond to the way science is discussed in the
book?
Week 13 (Tues Nov 15; Thurs Nov 17)
Tuesday: Read Kingsolver at least through chapter 9
(through p245).
Also for Tuesday, bring a grammar handbook to class.
Thursday: Read Kingsolver at least through chapter 12
(through p328).
Also read "MLA Eight
Edition: What's New and Different," at the Purdue University Online
Writing Lab website, last updated August, 2016: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/22/
And
read - "Lies in the Guise of News in the Trump Era." By Nicholas Kristof. The New
York Times, November 12, 2016. mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/sunday/lies-in-the-guise-of-news-in-the-trump-era.html
Week 14 (Tues Nov 22; Thanksgiving)
Tuesday: Due:
Second rough draft of your research project. (Bring only one copy.)
Week 15 (Tues Nov 29; Thurs Dec 1)
Tuesday: Finish Kingsolver.
Thursday: Research project due.
No final
exam!