Category Archives: Other
The Ranch Visit
On Thursday we spent the day at Trinchera Ranch, which is the fourth ranch I have visited this year with CC, but it is quite different from all the other ranches. Trinchera Ranch is the largest ranch in Colorado and consists of 173,000 acres privately owned. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which includes Mount Blanca–the …
Reading Landscapes
As I am writing this post, I am on the bus heading towards the San Luis Valley. Sleeping college students surround me, and I am reminded of all the pictures that were taken of me asleep in the van the last time I was on a CC field trip. The further away we travel from …
Real Analysis: Week 2 (and doing things with real numbers)
Since learning about some of the basic properties of the real numbers, about how they form a line that is completely continuous, we’ve begun to talk about what those properties allow us to do with the real numbers. When we think about and talk about math, we tend to think and talk about manipulating numbers, not …
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Week 2: The Essay
After a relaxing weekend filled with reading, coloring, exploring the arts, and taking a stroll with nature, our class piled into the room. With our refreshed minds we prepared for our next assignment. The Essay is our last big assignment that is supposed to encompass our lives. The first day we described our golden memory, …
Week 4: Project Poetry Runway Show
Hey all, My final blog post is all about Project Poetry! On Monday, Jane had us all over for a class dinner at her house, which was delicious and lots of fun! We talked about poetry, our papers, and what we were all going to do this summer. Then we moved inside to watch an …
Week 2: Imagery, Metaphors, and Starting Project Poetry
Hi all, This week we’ve continued discussing more awesome poetry from some great authors. We started off the week on Monday with a Meter and Terminology Exam, just to make sure we remembered all the terms and scansion skills we practiced last week. We also talked about some poems by Native American author James Thomas …
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Week 4
4/11-12/16 FIELD TRIP!!! The “cloudmaker” bomb, at a chemical weapons storage facility in Pueblo, Colorado Due to poor weather, our original plans for the trip changed and we ended up visiting numerous sites around the front range. Bent’s Old Fort, in La Junta, Colorado. …
Week 3
4/4/16 Today we started class with our second test, reviewing concepts from last week of land and rock disturbances. Once finished, we had a discussion on the weekend’s reading: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein. Students discussed the selfish psychology of big business and asserted that since business is only …
Week 1
During our first week of class we looked at the drivers for mass extinctions in the past and looked at current comparisons and differences. Some of the drivers of extinctions are highlighted in this class symposium website made by Ben Stillwell. Some of the drivers for mass extinction are: Bolide Impact Extreme Volcanism Climate Change …
