email dated 4/14/01

Hi Folks

I had a fine time on our field trip. Hope you did too.

VL's Holland's expert presentation taught me alot about the ecology of our home and provides us all with a framework to check and apply some of that learning. I'd like you to answer the questions he asks on p. 14 of the handout, "Poly Canyon Vegetation." Get this job finished in your journals by the time you hand them in on April 27.

In addition to the handout and your notes from the walk, use the descriptions and pictures in "Poly Canyon Revisited" to which our class for Friday was linked and which is also linked to several of the pictures in this gallery: http://polyland.lib.calpoly.edu/polyland/overview/Archives/4-13-01/index.htm Feel free to make your answers to those questions more expansive--adding drawings, your own photographs--remember you can borrow a digital camera from Media Distribution Services. You might want to add fuller descriptions and subjective observations to your replies to those questions, but you dont have to. I do want to see evidence that you've learned to read the botanical language of landscape and that you can use that language in your own writing.

I enjoyed looking through the journals people showed me in conference on Friday and I look forward to see more. Remember that the grade on the journal emphasizes quantity as well as quality and that the journal itself will make writing the papers easier and more productive. With that in mind, be sure to include quotations and discussions of some of the literary texts we are reading as well as scientific and descriptive information that you accumulate as we proceed. By next Friday, please email me one paragraph of no more than 250 words of a sample of what's in your journal to share with the class. Dont forget to include your name, but let me know if you'd prefer it to be left anonymous on the webpage.