Sumários

Going down the Eastern seaboard: the North and South divide. Oral presentation on Hurricane Katrina. William Faulkner's Mississippi.

3 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Teacher's sample of critical comparison text (see Moodle).

Oral presentation: hurricane Katrina and social and racial divisions in Louisiana and Mississippi.
https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/03/hurricane-katrina-presentation-by.html
The North and South historical divisions.
Maps: Mississippi River, Mississippi state; Twain and Faulkner's fictional maps: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/03/mississippi-maps-facts-myths.html
William Faulkner's "Mississippi" (intro.)

Carnaval

1 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Holiday.

Cont. of last lesson. Transcendentalism in the 19th C and Nature as Awakening and Enlightenment. H. D. Thoreau, "Walking.2

24 Fevereiro 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

"Young Goodman Brown" (cont.)

Contrasting its vision of wilderness with Thoreau's insistence on writing and thinking the "wild".
Powerpoint in Moodle and reading prompts here: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/02/hw-feb-24-henry-david-thoreau-walking.html

Intro to practice for midterm essay. New England... or "Yankeedom": the Puritan colonies and Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."

22 Fevereiro 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Intro to practice for midterm essay: critical comparison of texts - https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/02/hw-feb-22-critical-comparison-of-texts.html

New England, or "Yakneedom" - cultural characteristics and weight of Puritan past (see powerpoint in moodle).
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and the symbolism of its journey through the wilderness.

Oral presentation on the Amish and the Environment. Mappings of North America (and beyond)

17 Fevereiro 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Oral presentation: Nature and the Environment in Amish Life (see blog post: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2022/02/blog-post.html)

Ways of using maps: material form, knowledge, performance.
Article "Mappings" by Jeremy W. Crampton, The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography (2013): 423-436.
Joel Garreau, The Nine Nations of North America  (1981) - see powerpoint on Moodle.