Topic in class:  Syllabus, etc.

Assignments Due today in class:

1.  Get a journal!  Feel free to begin writing about your experiences this first week of college.

2.  Review our section's syllabus.  Think about the workshops you want to sign up for.

3.  Review Dr. DePaolo's Biography and Curriculum Vitae and bring in 2 written questions you'd like to ask her.

4.  Do the powerpoint miniproject.

5.  Sign up for your New York Times subscription at the bookstore. 

6.  Take the news survey at: http://www.uncw.edu/honors/honors110/survey.html.  Please bring a copy to class.

Meet a Professor: Chancellor DePaolo's Biography and Curriculum Vitae

JOURNAL 1: After class, write in your journal about the session with the Chancellor.  What about the Chancellor's presentation or readings surprised you? Is UNCW what you expected, so far? How so, or not so? What questions do you still have?

JOURNAL 2: What is your first recollection or experience with any university?  How has this first week been?

Critical thinking/ Dream Job overview

1.  Explore these sites on the web: http://www.rythospital.com/ ;  http://www.dhmo.org/ ; http://www.snopes.com/college/college.asp and bring in a one paragraph reaction (typed) to the sites.

2.  Read: Piccioto- Introduction Thinking Critically- For ONE of the logical fallacies on pp. 11-13, bring in an example(s) of how you or someone you know has succumbed to that fallacy (about one paragraph typed).

3. Read the Dream Job handout.

JOURNAL 3:  Choose one of your favorite quotes or scenes in Kite Runner and reflect on it in your journal.

NYTimes 1:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

READ:  Fox, Kick Ass in College. "Chapter 9: Time Management"
Nichols, "Get Time on Your Side." ; Bernstein, "Getting It Done: Notes on Student Fritters."

Bring in 5 typed discussion questions related to any of the readings.

JOURNAL 4:  What is your relationship with time? Is it your enemy? Do you procrastinate? Why or why not? Can you think of a time when "getting it done" really paid off? When "Putting it off" really hurt you? What time management strategies have worked for you? How is your daily schedule in college different from what you are used to? How will you use your awareness of your own energy cycle to set a study schedule?

TIME DIARY assigned: Keep a diary of how you actually spend your time.

SEAs Journal due

Workshops:  Readings to be announced.

JOURNAL 5:  Choose one of the recommended topics or Kite Runner to write about.

NYTimes 2:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

Dream job topic due

JOURNAL 6:  Choose one of the recommended topics to write about.

HAWKs Journal due

Workshop report due

SCIENCE   | September 10, 2007
Alex, a Parrot Who Had a Way With Words, Dies
By BENEDICT CAREY

SCIENCE   | June 26, 2007
Science of the Soul? 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Is Losing Force
By CORNELIA DEAN

JOURNAL 7:  Choose one of the recommended topics or Kite Runner to write about.

NYTimes 3:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

Dream job interviewee due

JOURNAL 8:  Choose one of the recommended topics to write about.

SEAs Journal due

Read: Aydelotte,  “The Oxford Stamp.”
Tompkins, "The Day I Walked Out of Class." and UNCW History

Bring in at least 2 comment (typed) about UNCW history, plus a formal reaction response to either Aydelotte or Tompkins.

JOURNAL 9:  Choose either a) Would you have thrived at Oxford?  Why/Why not?  Try to picture your life in 20 years... describe specific ways you think your college experiences will have shaped your life, or b) What did you think of Tompkins' class- teacher, students, syllabus?  Do you hope to have a similar class in college?  Why/Why not?

NYTimes 4:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

Time Management mini project due

JOURNAL 10:  Choose one of the recommended topics to write about.

HAWKs Journal due

JOURNAL 11:  Choose one of the recommended topics to write about.

NYTimes 5:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

JOURNAL 12:  comment on the dream job presentations and what your own next steps are (eg for the rest if the semester) related to your dream job.

NYTimes 6:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

READ MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS

Dream Job papers Due

Journals due (All)  

Go ahead and turn in some cultural and/or service reactions

Theme Day NN: Morality/Altrusim Student Led Discussion

If not leading discussion: Formal Response to Do unto others and one of the other three readings

NYTimes 7:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

READ: Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Discussion on Chapters 1-17, pp. 1-158

Turn in: 5 thoughtful questions related to these chapters. Typed

READ: Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Discussion on Chapters 18-Afterword, pp. 159-301.

Turn in: 5 thoughtful questions related to these chapters. Typed

NYTimes 8:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

Turn in a 2 page formal response to a specific chapter or event in Mountains that resonated for you.

If not leading discussion: Formal Response

 NYTimes 9:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

Bring: 2 thoughtful questions to ask about study abroad.  TYPED.  Turn in at session.

READ:  Schweitzer, On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, pp. 1-29.

Turn in: Formal response to Schweitzer text and one internet site on AS:  see bibliography.

NYTimes 10:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

NYTimes 11:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

If not leading discussion: Formal Response

NYTimes 12:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

If not leading discussion: Formal Response

NYTimes 13:  Find an article related in some way to Nature Nurture theme from this week or last, and cut it out, and write a 2-3 paragraph reaction to it.  The NYT reactions go in your journals in a separate section.

If not leading discussion: Formal Response