9.02.2008

Welcome to NYC!

This blog is where you will receive information about class field trips, reading assignments, and writing assignments.

Required Reading
--Weekly readings from Reader Packets (to be supplied)
--Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
--The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
--The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Supplies
--New York City Subway Map
--Field Notebook(s)