Human/Nature

Journal Assignment #1
Due: Tues Oct. 22
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Each week you will journal on the readings in class to help you better
understand the material. These journals should be no larger than 12 font,
word processed and double spaced. You will complete two journal entries
each week and entry should be no less than one full page. Thus, you will be
turning in two full pages a week either to myself or my mentor. Journals are
a more relaed writing that allows you to get your ideas on paper without
being concerned about essay form and organi!ation. "owe#er, you still
need to write in complete sentences and apply proper grammar. Each
weekly journal is worth $% of your o#erall grade.
&irst Journal Entry'
(hoose one of the )uotes below and eplore how it is significant to the
meaning of the story and *e+uin,s portrayal of human nature.
-.ee/ 0t just depends on how you look at things. There are only two kinds of people.1
-"umans and animals/1
-2o, The kind of people who say,,There are two kinds of people, and
the kind of people who don,t.1 (oyote cracked up, pounding her thigh and yelling with
delight at her joke. The child didn,t get it and waited.
-34,1 (oyote said. -There,s the first people, and then the others. That,s the two
kinds.1 5p. 627
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-*i!ard and 9eetle were singing some kind of growing song or blessing song, soft and
desultory, huh:huh:huh:huh, and as she lay warm:curled on the ground the song made
her feel rooted in the ground, cradled on it and in it, so where her fingers ended and the
dirt began she did not know, as if she were dead, but she was wholly ali#e, she was the
earth,s life.1 5p. ;;7
.econd Journal Entry'
(hoose one of the following persons<+randmother, (oyote, "orse<and
describe the world and its people from their perspecti#e. "ow does this
compare with your #iew of human nature/