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A Figurative Walk in the Woods

We have been examining Bryson’s narrative about his travels along the Appalachian Trail as a metaphor for any long journey a person might take. Our discussions have taken specific moments from Bryson’s journey and extrapolated ways that we might apply them to our individual experiences, not matter how different. This small project will assess how well you have understood and can apply what we have learned so far.

1. Create a PADLET (10 points overall quality)

1. Points will be assigned based on the layout, apparent effort, and efficacy of your Padlet Presentation

2. Consider the layout of the padlet you select - should it be a timeline? Columns? Rows? What makes the most sense for your narrative?

3. Consider the quality of images - how well does your selection of images demonstrate your understanding of the passage/concept?

2. Close analysis of passages (5 points each; 20 points total)

1. Identify FOUR (4) key passages in Bryson’s journey. Those passages should be about 200-400 words in length. For each passage, you must:

1. Copy and paste that passage into a PADLET TEXT BOX

2. In another PADLET TEXT BOX, Provide a brief context for the passage and explain the significance of the passage relative to Bryson’s journey and how it might be applied to an individual’s experiences. (3-5 Sentences total for each passage)

3. Pair the passage with at least TWO (2) IMAGES or MULTIMEDIA CONTENT that convey the same idea

3. Real Life Application (5 points each; 20 points total)

1. Apply the main idea from EACH of your selected passages to a journey you have taken yourself.

1. Tell your version of the story, connecting it to specifics from Bryson’s text

2. Pair your narrative with at least TWO (2) IMAGES or MULTIMEDIA CONTENT that help tell your story and make the connection to Bryson.

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“In 1996 the Wall Street Journal ran a splendid article on the nuisance of satellite navigation devices, cellphones, and other such appliances in the wilderness. All this high- tech equipment, it appears, is drawing up into the mountains people who perhaps shouldn't be there. At Baxter State Park in Maine, the Journal reported, one hiker called up a National Guard Unit and asked them to send a helicopter to airlift him off Mount Katahdin because he was tired. On Mount Washington, meanwhile, "two very demanding women," according to an official there, called the mountain patrol HQ and said they couldn't manage the last mile and a half to the summit even though there were still four hours of daylight left. They asked for a rescue team to come and carry them back to their car.”

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The article was written when Bryson met someone who had brought a very high-tech probe, which reminded him of an article he'd read in a newspaper that had a "wonderful" article about how satellite navigation devices, cell phones and other devices were a drag in the wilderness. Bryson doesn't really like technology on the road, it makes the whole nature no longer that nature. This article is how Bryson satirizes technology and people who rely too much on technology. People shouldn't rely on technology too much.

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I'm one of those people who relies too much on technology. My phone and computer screen time now add up to more than 16 hours, which means I use my phone or computer all the time except when I sleep. I've tried to reduce my use of technology, but I feel empty every time I put my phone down

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On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, Salvatore Pagliuca, a meteorologist at the summit weather observatory on Mount Washington, had an experience no one else has had before or since.

Mount Washington sometimes gets a little gusty, to put it mildly, and this was a particularly breezy day. In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. When it came time for Pagliuca to         take the afternoon readings, the wind was so strong that he tied a rope around his waist and had two colleagues take hold of the other end. As it was, the men had difficulty just getting the weather station door open and needed all their strength to keep Pagliuca from becoming a kind of human kite. How he managed to reach his weather instruments and take readings is not known, nor are his words when he finally tumbled back in, though "Jeeeeeeeemf!" would seem an apt possibility.

What is certain is that Pagliuca had just experienced a surface wind speed of 231 miles an hour. Nothing approaching that velocity has ever been recorded elsewhere. In The Worst Weather on Earth: A History of the Mt. Washington Observatory, William Lowell Putnam dryly notes: "There may be worse weather, from time to time, at some forbidding place on Planet Earth, but it has yet to be reliably recorded." Among the Mount Washington weather station's many other records are: most weather instruments destroyed, most wind in twenty-four hours (nearly 3,100 miles of it), and lowest windchill (a combination of 100-mph winds and a temperature of --47°F, a severity unmatched even in Antarctica).

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This passage talks about the experience of a meteorologist Salvatore Pagliuca who experienced a harsh weather in Mount Washington. This expirience also shows the path of the harsh natural environment, but many people still trying to climb the mountain and travel AT in this dangerous weather, the fact that showed that the human pursuit of difficult, due to the difficult on the spirit, although the risk is very big. Also shows the hardships and determination of Bryson completing this path.

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Just like I'm doing the padlet and other assignments, even if I can't understand this article, also don't know how to have been linked with real life, but I still didn't give up, I try my best to interpret and explain, homework is like the bad weather, I like travelers, even under the bad weather will continue

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A person suffering hypothermia experiences several progressive stages, beginning, as you would expect, with mild and then increasingly violent shivering as the body tries to warm itself with muscular contractions, proceeding on to profound weariness, heaviness of movement, a distorted sense of time and distance, and increasingly helpless confusion resulting in a tendency to make imprudent or illogical decisions and a failure to observe the obvious. Gradually the sufferer grows thoroughly disoriented and subject to increasingly dangerous hallucinations--including the decidedly cruel misconception that he is not freezing but burning up.

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This article introduces hypothermia and its symptoms, and how it can "kill" people. Although hypothermia is more dangerous than wild animals like bears, Bryson and most people don't seem to care so much about the more obvious dangers. Hypothermia This is one of the most dangerous and overlooked encounters on the road, and it has nothing to do with wildlife. This passage addresses that people would only care more obvious things even there might be thing that is more important than this.

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Just like I always care more about what's above the water than what's below. Just like I only study for exams and quizzes, but I don't review after exams, it's more important that I need an understanding of college courses, not just a test.

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"It's the only way of looking at it," Katz went on and quite earnestly. "As far as I'm concerned, I hiked the Appalachian Trail. I hiked it in snow and I hiked it in heat. I hiked it in the South and I hiked in the North. I hiked it till my feet bled. I hiked the Appalachian Trail, Bryson." I still quite often go for walks on the trail near my home, especially if I am stuck on something I am working on. Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the woods, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is--whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze--perfect. Not just very fine or splendid, but perfect, unimprovable. You don't have to walk miles up mountains to achieve this, don't have to plod through blizzards, slip sputtering in mud, wade chest-deep through water, hike day after day to the edge of your limits--but believe me, it helps. We have been examining Bryson’s narrative about his travels along the Appalachian Trail as a metaphor for any long journey a person might take. Our discussions have taken specific moments from Bryson’s journey and extrapolated ways that we might apply them to our individual experiences, not matter how different. This small project will assess how well you have understood and can apply what we have learned so far.

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This passage is after they finished their walk and Katz thoughts about the travel. Although neither Bryson nor Katz walked the entire length of the trail, or even the length of the distance they walked, they had experienced a lot, they had kept walking, and they had reached their destination. After that, Bryson still spent a lot of time walking, still spending time to reach his goal. Goals don't have to be great, and the process of pursuing them doesn't have to be arduous, just do your best to reach the goals you can reach.

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I don't like to set a high goal for myself because I know I can't reach it, so I will lower my goal a little bit and I can try my best to reach it. Even though it may not be like someone else's goal, I will keep reaching the goal until I can reach a higher goal.