HONS 1301 H03"The Mother Earth Chronicles" (MEC) (Week of 8/24-8/28))

Greetings, all! The books and course packets are in. Course packets are available at copytech.

We will be reading the following this semester:

Books:
Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood)
Sue Hubble (A Country Year)
Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)

Essays and Poems (in your course packet):

Pattiann Rogers (‘Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird;” “Geocentric”)
Gretel Ehrlich (“The Solace of Open Spaces”)
Mary Oliver (Wild Geese;” In Blackwater Woods”)
Annie Dillard (“Heaven and Earth in Jest;” “Chapter Three” from The Writing Life)
Rebecca Solnit (“The Blue of Distance”)

For our first class meeting, we will be covering the syllabus, course expectations, course mechanics, and arranging tutorial groups and schedules.

ASSIGNMENT UPDATE:
Read "Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird" for next week's tutorial. Read the short stories "How to Talk to a Hunter," Selway," and "Highwater" from Cowboys are My Weakness for next Thursday's class.

Welcome back!

Congratulations to our August NHH grads, Mark Pennington and Matt McEwen:

Sorry that photo is so fuzzy. Matt took off right after the ceremony, but I managed to chase down Mark for a better shot:


And to everyone else: welcome back, people! Let's get going!