Ecology Of Language Schedule 2

Ecology of Language and Place, Winter 2009 This schedule is subject to revision. WEEK 1 The Power of Place: Politics &Ethnopoetics Monday 1-5 -Introductions: 6:006:45 -Workshop 1: 6:458:00. Ethnopoetics and An Ecology of Language and Place

-Film: 8:00- 9:30 Whaledreamers -Seminar: 9:30-10:00 ---------------------------See Drupal site for Syllabus, weekly reading assignments, handouts, & details each week. -Seminar paper due each week. Due: See Reading Response 1 for details. Power of Story -Wisdom of the Mythtellers ---------------------------Wedsnesday 1-7 Guest: 6:00-7:30 Zalmi (esweli?) Zahir--The Power of Place & Names -Lushootseed (xelSucid) Language & Linguistics -Name songs, and circle Workshop 2: 7:30-9:00 Stories of Powerful People & Places: R. & R. -Seminar 9:00-10:00 --------------------------Due -Seminar paper 1 -Review Zeke’s Lushootseed Alphabet.

Weekly Program Schedule See website for details on readings & assignments.

WEEK 2 The Power of Story:

WEEK 3 The Power of Words:

WEEK 4 Language & Place:

WEEK 5 Weaving Words

Monday 1-12 Lecture/Workshop: R & R Transformation Myths: Levels of Language & Narrative.

Monday 1-19 ML.King Day: No Class

Monday 1-26

Monday 2-2

Storytelling Workshop, Family & Place. Council of All Creatures, improv. and development. with Peter Donaldson, R. & R.

Mid Quarter Potluck:

-Workshop 3: Family Stories--Part 2 Storytelling Mixer Research Methods Randy Stilson/ Computers: 9:00-10:00 (In Library) ---------------------------DueReview Zeke’s Lushootseed Alphabet ---------------------------Wednesday 1-14 Joe McHugh: Artist, Archivist, Activist: Family Stories, radio production. -Workshop 4: Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. Review Lushootseed, phonetics, (Lushootseed Alphabet.) -Seminar --------------------------Due – Seminar paper -Begin to research a folktale of a particular place.

---------------------------Wednesday 1-21 Peter Donaldson: Introduction to Salmon People. The Power of Words -Workshop 4: R. & R. Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. sXudXud VeA ti, song of the power of words. (Words, semiotic principles, words as living objects or things.) Chief Shelton’s “The Changer;” “yehaW,” “duIibeA.” -Seminar Cont. stories of powerful people & places. --------------------------Due-Seminar paper

-Finding Stories, Creating Meaning -First “Final Project” Mixer & Meeting: Due Statement of special project. ---------------------------Due –review website ---------------------------Wednesday 1-28 Storytelling Workshop w/ Peter Donaldson -Film: The Last Nomads, Teachings of the Tree People, or Vi Hilbert XeVuceda. -Seminar:

-Continue to research a folktale of a particular place FIELDTRIP Thursday 1-22 “Salmonpeople” with Peter Donaldson, arrive before 6:30 p.m. TESC Experimental Theatre, COM Bldg.

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Storytelling Workshop w/ Peter Donaldson, R. & R. -Salmon Stories, Songs, & Egg Painting -Structure of Language Workshop/poetic patterns, R & R -Special Project Group meetings. Editing and preparing manuscripts. Editing and developing electronic media. ---------------------------Due: (3 copies) First draft of final project essay, or project outline --------------------------Wednesday 2-4

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Zalmi (esweli?) Zahir: Weaving & Words— the language of Basketry Traditions.

--Next week--First Draft OR outline of Final Project.

-Basketry Stories and cedar rope-making workshop. -Seminar

---------------------------Due- Seminar paper

Ecology of Language and Place, Winter 2009 This schedule is subject to revision. WEEK 6 Stories for a Council of All Creatures

Weekly Program Schedule See website for details on readings & assignments.

WEEK 7 Stories of Place

WEEK 8 Metaphore & Meaning

Monday 2-16

Monday 2-23

Monday 2-9 -Storytelling Workshop w/ Peter Donaldson, R. & R.

-Workshop 6: Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. Linguistic Diversity, Universality vs. the ways languages differ, genetic diversity: animal communication. Mammals and birds. ---------------------------Due- Practice Performances ---------------------------Wedsnesday 2-11 “Council of all Creatures, ”Storytelling Performance with “Sacred Gardens” Program & Peter Donaldson -Seminar --------------------------Due -Seminar paper

WEEK 9 Bringing Stories to Life

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WEEK 10 Final Presentations Monday 3-9

Monday 3-2 President’s Day: No Class ---------------------------Due- Title and Outline of Folktale ---------------------------Wednesday 2- 18 Workshop 5: Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. Orality/Literacy Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. Narrative Structure, differences in various cultures. (The minutia of performance, paralinguistic expressions, the patterns of narrative structure.) Storytelling Performances: Mapping, Dialogue, Characterization-Improv. games: 3 part stories, gibberish interview character dialogue, etc. -Seminar --------------------------Due-Seminar paper -Map of Folktale FIELDTRIP Sunday 2-22 Native American Stories of Washington 1:00-5:00 Longhouse With: Pauline Hillaire Curtis DuPuis Harvest Moon Virginia Beavert Cecil Cheeka Elaine Grinnell Delbert Miller

Susan Christian: Playback theatre, storytelling improv. games.

Translation—Chief Seattle’s speech, oratory, cultural and ancestral memory. Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed Metaphors and ways we use them in language, and why. technological terms and stories, etc.) ---------------------------Due- Dialogue Script of Folktale ---------------------------Wednesday 2-25 Lecture/Workshop: TBD (Possibly--Ethnographic Research Methods, Genealogy, Mapping Personal History, etc.?) Folktale Performances & recordings. -Seminar - Final Project Meeting: --------------------------Due-Seminar paper

Language, Linguistics, and Lushootseed. Lushootseed morphology, how it works. Folktale Performances & recordings. ---------------------------Due – ---------------------------Wednesday 3-4 Lecture/Workshop: TBD -Presentations of final projects . -Seminar: ---------------------------Due- Seminar paper

Final Project Presentations ---------------------------Due: Portfolios of all written work --------------------------Wednesday 3-11 Final Project Presentations ---------------------------Due: 3 Copies of self and faculty evaluations.