{"id":795,"date":"2017-09-29T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/?page_id=795"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:38:40","slug":"38-169170-extra-credit-assignments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/38-169170-extra-credit-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"38: 169\/170 Extra Credit Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Optional Extra Credit Assignments<\/strong>: A book review <span>OR<\/span> contribution to \u201cWhy Geography Matters\u201d may be submitted at any time before the last day of class for extra credit.<\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Book Review<\/span>: Any book with a strong geographic component that you have not read before is acceptable.\u00a0 Some recommendations include <i>Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/i> by Jared Diamond; <em>Floods, Famines, and Emperors<\/em> by Brian Fagan; <em>A Sand County Almanac<\/em> by Aldo Leopold; <em>Collapse<\/em> by Jared Diamond; <em>The Map That Changed the World<\/em> by Simon Winchester; <em>The Eternal Frontier<\/em> by Tim Flannery; <em>Krakatoa<\/em> by Simon Winchester; <em>Epic Wanderer<\/em> by D&#8217;Arcy Jenish; <em>Where is Here<\/em>? by Alan Morantz; and <em>A Geography of Blood<\/em> by Candace Savage. These would all be considered lite reading and are not boring textbooks, but popular best sellers. If you want to choose your own book, check with me first so that I can approve it.\u00a0 The book review should be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">at least<\/span> two pages (dbl. sp.), specifically noting the significance of geography to the main theme of the book. Submit a digital copy of your book report to me and, based on how well you have explained the significance of geography to the central theme of the book, I will give you up to 5% bonus marks toward your final grade in the course.<\/p>\n<p>2) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Why Geography Matters<\/span>: Because every THING happens or exists somewhere we can study or consider how its unique geographic occurrence affects it or other phenomena, including us, or how it differs from similar THINGS elsewhere. Hopefully this course, and other geography courses you take, will change your mind about what geography is, how it is relevant to you and society in general, and why Geography matters. As we progress through the course we will hopefully discuss a topic that &#8220;hits home&#8221; for you and you make this connection, or maybe you will read or hear about something in the news that makes you think about how and why geography matters. Your assignment is to write a short essay (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">at least<\/span> two pages, dbl. sp.), explaining what it is and why and\/or how it is a good example of Why Geography Matters. Submit a digital copy of your essay to me and, based on how well you have explained Why Geography Matters to you, I will give you up to 2% bonus marks toward your final grade in the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optional Extra Credit Assignments: A book review OR contribution to \u201cWhy Geography Matters\u201d may be submitted at any time before the last day of class for extra credit. 1) Book Review: Any book with a strong geographic component that you have not read before is acceptable.\u00a0 Some recommendations include Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-795","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/wiseman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}