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Horizons Humanities I: ISLANDS
Dr. Thom Buescher, CHRHS Horizons G/T Programs
FALL 20092010 0.5 credit
DESCRIPTION:
Horizons ISLANDS is a one semester interdisciplinary course, anchored in the Humanities but supported by the arts and science, designed to provide a collaborative learning experience for identified highly-able ninth grade students at CHRHS. Begun in 1996, the ISLANDS course has been an anchoring course for many G/T students who began their four-year journey in this very class!

Fall Term 20092010
‘Origins, Journeys, and Cultural Curiosities’
Grade Levels: 10th-11th One Semester credit (0.5)

Hzns ANTHROPOLOGY Dr. Thom Buescher
FALL Semester
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1:
Your Personal Environmental History
Purpose: To document and describe your own personal connection
To a specific PLACE, viz, your current home/lot/land (or one
Most intimately known by you over time).
Requirement: About 600 words or so, typed, double-spaced, carefully edited
To Be Included:
Four different perspectives:
(1) The Ancestral heritage—ie, your grandparents’ and parents’
Particular relationship to the land around them, past and present.
(2) Your very own EARLIEST links to the ‘land’ and its surround
(3) Your own thoughts and reflections on how you use the land now—and on how OTHERS use/relate to the land around you (development?)
(4) Your best projections on how land and culture might be linked in your own future endeavors?
Bring a print copy your Personal Environmental History to class on MON 09-14-09
Points value: 30

Hzns Humanities ISLANDS Dr. Thom Buescher
REFLECTIONS on your own ‘ISLOMANIA’
Writing Assignment #1
Horizons ISLANDS begins as a journey to many ‘kinds’ of Islands—those on the horizon, those near at hand, and those that are a product of our imagination and creation. Bill Holm, a writer you will meet in while here, sees ISLANDS as ever-present: we are and act like ‘islands’ all the time. This writing activity gets your reflective powers brewing as we prepare to venture off to MONHEGAN Island and others in the coming months.
PREPARATION
Read (better TWICE than just ONCE) the attached article from Maine Boats, Harbors, and Homes that is a reprint from a previously published work. The author, Franklin Russell, in 1965 published a book about his own experiences of being in and around islands across the globe: The Secret Islands: An Exploration. The segment copied for you addresses the matter of ‘ISLOMANIA.’ Try to conjure up the viewpoint of the writer as he spins this curious narrative.
ASSIGNMENT
In a carefully crafted piece of about 300 words or so, please reflect on your own particular case of ‘ISLOMANIA’—longing and desire—that captures your experience of a favored ‘exotic place’—maybe even an ISLAND! Keep in mind that some of these longed-for places may be more imaginative than real!
One way to do this is to start with one of Russell’s comments/observations about Islands and Island life. There are many small sections/paragraphs that may be the spark that starts your own thinking and reflections.
Please complete the writing in the best style and vocabulary you can comfortably muster. It should be typed, double-spaced, and cleanly spell-checked. I read and grade writings in a ‘holistic’ fashion, but with an equal eye and ear for content (thoughts) as well as style (mechanics).
This writing is due on [PRINTED please] on THURS 09-17-09—the first class meeting after our MONHEGAN trek on 9-15-09. Questions?

Hzns Humanities ISLANDS Dr. Thom Buescher
REFLECTIONS on your own ‘ISLOMANIA’
Writing Assignment #1
Horizons ISLANDS begins as a journey to many ‘kinds’ of Islands—those on the horizon, those near at hand, and those that are a product of our imagination and creation. Bill Holm, a writer you will meet in while here, sees ISLANDS as ever-present: we are and act like ‘islands’ all the time. This writing activity gets your reflective powers brewing as we prepare to venture off to MONHEGAN Island and others in the coming months.
PREPARATION
Read (better TWICE than just ONCE) the attached article from Maine Boats, Harbors, and Homes that is a reprint from a previously published work. The author, Franklin Russell, in 1965 published a book about his own experiences of being in and around islands across the globe: The Secret Islands: An Exploration. The segment copied for you addresses the matter of ‘ISLOMANIA.’ Try to conjure up the viewpoint of the writer as he spins this curious narrative.
ASSIGNMENT
In a carefully crafted piece of about 300 words or so, please reflect on your own particular case of ‘ISLOMANIA’—longing and desire—that captures your experience of a favored ‘exotic place’—maybe even an ISLAND! Keep in mind that some of these longed-for places may be more imaginative than real!
One way to do this is to start with one of Russell’s comments/observations about Islands and Island life. There are many small sections/paragraphs that may be the spark that starts your own thinking and reflections.
Please complete the writing in the best style and vocabulary you can comfortably muster. It should be typed, double-spaced, and cleanly spell-checked. I read and grade writings in a ‘holistic’ fashion, but with an equal eye and ear for content (thoughts) as well as style (mechanics).
This writing is due on [PRINTED please] on THURS 09-17-09—the first class meeting after our MONHEGAN trek on 9-15-09. Questions? Please ask . . .

Thom Buescher
REFLECTIONS
REFLECTIONS on your own ‘ISLOMANIA’
Writing
Writing Assignment #1
Horizons
Horizons ISLANDS begins coming months.
PREPARATION
Read
PREPARATION
Read (better TWICE curious narrative.
ASSIGNMENT
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ASSIGNMENT
In a carefully than real!
One
One way to and reflections.
Please
Please complete the style (mechanics).
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This writing is 9-15-09. Questions?

Hzns Humanities ISLANDS Dr. Thom Buescher
REFLECTIONS on your own ‘ISLOMANIA’
Writing Assignment #1
Horizons ISLANDS begins as a journey to many ‘kinds’ of Islands—those on the horizon, those near at hand, and those that are a product of our imagination and creation. Bill Holm, a writer you will meet in while here, sees ISLANDS as ever-present: we are and act like ‘islands’ all the time. This writing activity gets your reflective powers brewing as we prepare to venture off to MONHEGAN Island and others in the coming months.
PREPARATION
Read (better TWICE than just ONCE) the attached article from Maine Boats, Harbors, and Homes that is a reprint from a previously published work. The author, Franklin Russell, in 1965 published a book about his own experiences of being in and around islands across the globe: The Secret Islands: An Exploration. The segment copied for you addresses the matter of ‘ISLOMANIA.’ Try to conjure up the viewpoint of the writer as he spins this curious narrative.
ASSIGNMENT
In a carefully crafted piece of about 300 words or so, please reflect on your own particular case of ‘ISLOMANIA’—longing and desire—that captures your experience of a favored ‘exotic place’—maybe even an ISLAND! Keep in mind that some of these longed-for places may be more imaginative than real!
One way to do this is to start with one of Russell’s comments/observations about Islands and Island life. There are many small sections/paragraphs that may be the spark that starts your own thinking and reflections.
Please complete the writing in the best style and vocabulary you can comfortably muster. It should be typed, double-spaced, and cleanly spell-checked. I read and grade writings in a ‘holistic’ fashion, but with an equal eye and ear for content (thoughts) as well as style (mechanics).
This writing is due on [PRINTED please] on THURS 09-17-09—the first class meeting after our MONHEGAN trek on 9-15-09. Questions?

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Horizons Humanities I: ISLANDS
Dr. Thom Buescher, CHRHS Horizons G/T Programs