Also – make sure to read your seminar book AND the rest of the poetry packet.  Prepare a written paper following these usual guidelines:

i) Your response to the reading (such as what surprised you, what you had difficulty accepting or maybe how it works into your 3-credit project

ii) Connections between the text you read and program themes, lectures, or other readings

iii)  Connections between any of the poems and themes in the book (use citations

iv) Three teaching points that you will use to teach about this text to your peers while we are on retreat.

Bring this typed paper with you to the retreat.

And- of course, study the questions for the final in-class writing which will take place at the retreat week 10.

Please look ahead to week 10 and note what work will be due then.  Week 9 is the time to get it all prepared!

under construction -Saturday 5/22 6 pm

We also have a “normal” schedule this week!

Week 7 is going to be full of interesting and important learning!  To start take a look at this web site to get a more clear idea of Touch Drawing, which we will experience on Tuesday morning:

http://www.touchdrawing.com/

We’d like you to watch the demo and look at a few applications under stories and uses in the left hand pull down bar.  Some possibilities  are:
1. Touch Drawing as a Spiritual Practice – Faces of the Universe, Touch Drawing brought to Auschwitz
2.  Touch Drawing in Nature: Spirit of the Grey Whales
3. Touch Drawing With Children and Youth:  Traumatized children in Gaza, Touch Drawing with Youth

And anything else to get a sense of diverse applications
Also, under Deborah, Articles and Interviews there is a short article – “Eyes of the Soul: Exploring Inspiration in Art” that  describes how touch drawing developed.

Tuesday, May 11	Wednesdya, May 12	Thursday, May 13
10-1 Touch Drawing- supplies will be provided	Guest Speaker: Zahid Shariff AND Final segment of Joseph Campbell series	Expressive Arts Lab Cancelled
Peer Study Groiup Work on your performative responses for next week		Seminar Mortenson Due: 1. List 2 specific concepts discussed by Dr. Shariff on Wednesday that you can bring to seminar for further discussion. How does this relate to a specific idea in Mortenson's writing? 2. Three cups of Tea can be read as a developmental autobiography as well as a cultural text. Go back through your touch drawings once again. Pick 2 of your images that relate to different stages of Mortenson's life journey. How does this relate to choices or developmental transformations you have experienced or are experiencing? Create titles for each of your touch drawings - one or two words. Create a poem by having the title of the first image followed by the title of the last image, the title of the second image followed by the title of the next to last image until you have incorporated all titles into a poem to read to the seminar. 3. What 2 questions would you like to ask Mortenson?
Seminar Mortenson AND poetry packet pages 80-90 DUE: i) your response to the reading (such as what surprised you, what you think we should discuss in seminar, what you had difficulty accepting), ii) Connections between Mortenson and program themes, lectures, or other readings iii) connections between any of the poems and themes in the book (use citations iv) three REAL questions for seminar discussion which are tied to the reading(s). Be sure to cite authors and page numbers be specific about which parts of the text are motivating your questions.		***THURSDAY EVENING Mortenson Talk at St. Martin's College Meet as a group at 6:15 in front of Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion. We have a block of tickets and will enter together.

Cynthia’s video pick of the week:  Endangered Species Condoms

Saturday at 2:30: Coral reef crew will meet to pick up the coral reef.

Saturday at 3:00 – Everyone else (drummers, dancers, jelly fish, octopi and more…) will meet at the field on Columbia – across from the Community Center and Fusion – near the playground.  Just down the alley and across the street from the Procession studio.

Think about your food and beverage needs for this event.  Take good care of your bodies!

In other news: we are not formally having class on Tuesday.  BUT – you still need to come to campus to meet with your seminar leader at the time you signed up for your 5-week check-in conference.  Also – we are asking you to meet with your peer group to look at the Enduring Case Legacy assignment below and you can begin studying for the in-class writing which will be Tuesday of Week 6 (you may study for this with your peer group, or, obviously, ANYONE at all in the program).  Those study questions will be posted on Monday.

Under construction – 10 pm Thursday

http://www.evergreen.edu/multicultural/dayofabsencepresence10.htm
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Cynthia’s video pick of the week (thanks Mac):  Stroke of Insight

Check out the week’s schedule below.  Mukti’s seminar has a one-time schedule change – Tuesday seminar will meet from 1:30-3:30 with peer study groups meeting after that.  Terry and Cynthia’s group – regular schedule.

This quarter, Tuesday’s seminar tickets will be basically the same – a one-page paper intended to help you focus your understanding and responses to the seminar texts. It should have three components:  i) a statement of the author’s thesis, ii) your response to the reading(s) (such as what surprised you, what you think we should discuss in seminar, what you had difficulty accepting), iii) three REAL questions for seminar discussion which are tied to the reading(s).  To be productive, these questions should defy yes/no answers and should require more of your classmates than simple opinion.  Be sure to cite authors and page numbers  be specific about which parts of the text are motivating your questions.

NB:  This quarter we are asking for TWO copies of your seminar tickets on TUESDAY ONLY.  We will keep one copy to use as we compile study questions (from your own questions) for the in-class, integrative writing assignments.

AND – in your peer groups this week, you will each be asked to share a dream and work together to help each other write your first integrative page – connecting dream reality to what is happening in the program and your daily life. You will also talk about your individual projects. More on this in class Tuesday, but bring your dream journals.

Cynthia’s video pick of the week:  Fierce Light trailer

Remember – for Tuesday – bring a mug and also do the first short reading.

Cynthia’s video pick of the week:  Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

A  glance at major schedule changes for the quarter (subject to change!):

Check out these events:

Procession of the Species Workshops – Studio is now open. Check out workshop schedule handout under downloadable files.

Wednesday night Kirtan in the Longhouse at 6:30 pm – Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band

Mukti’s final upper division contract presentations Friday, March 12- Sem II D 3107 at 9 am.

Martha Nussbaum on Liberal Arts Education – Friday, March 12 in the Longhouse. 10 am

Consciousness, Art and Matter Program Showing – Friday , March 12 Sem 2 E4107

Robin Landsong reading from Seeing Into the Soul’s Mirror (her near-death experience) at Heart of Wellness on Saturday March 13 at 7 pm. Directions on the web site.

Panel for a Sustainable Community in Olympia – Sunday March 14. 3:30-5:30 pm in the Longhouse. Panelists from Sustainable South Sound, Evergreen Bike Shop, Voices for Justice, Olympia Waldorf School, Olympia Climate Action and more…

Seeking Accountability, Seeking Justice: Rachel Corrie Seven Years Later – Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 pm Urban Onion downtown Olympia – Potluck so bring a dish!