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Our Place: Reading, Discussing, & Writing-about Thanatopsis
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 24, 2010 in Uncategorized
—at William Cullen Bryant‘s Homestead: where he wrote Thanatopsis, “America’s first great poem”!
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Our Place Calendar
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 30, 2009 in Uncategorized
June 7-11 high schoolers 14-18 high schoolers 21-25 middle schoolers 28- July 2 middle schoolers July 5-9 high schoolers 12-16 high schoolers 19-23 middle schoolers 26-30 high schoolers Aug 2-6 high schoolers 9-13 high schoolers 16-20 middle schoolers 23-27 high schoolers
Our Place Costs and Logistics
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 30, 2009 in Uncategorized
Our Place costs $250.00 for five 8:30am-4:00pm, M-F days. Drop-off and pick-up are at the Brushworks classroom in Florence. Students carry backpacks with reading and writing materials, appropriate clothing, food and a water bottle.
Our Place Curriculum
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 30, 2009 in Uncategorized
The curriculum for Our Place is also the itinerary: Day One: Walking Westhampton – introduction to Thoreau’s essay Walking – streamwalking – the colonial roads of Mt. Tob Day Two: Southern Nonotuck – the dinosaurs of Holyoke – the microclimates, and unique ecological communities, of Mt. Tom – the view from Mt. Nonotuck Day Three: [...]
Happy Solstice
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 16, 2009 in Uncategorized
Longest night of the year—give it a chance… Tomorrow, winter. No turning back.
Animism
Investigate the traditions of animism in the cultures of Egypt, Greece, Judea, India and America.
Our Place: summer
By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 22, 2009 in Uncategorized
Our Place is a 5 day intensive that combines reading, hiking and writing in a focused investigation of Nonotuck as a bioregion. For a complete course description, click:
