India-Nat+Geo



Alphas, it is time to begin our passage to India. It is the DHC's opinion that knowledge and understanding of the sub-continent may be one of the most important acquisitions of knowledge that you can make. In the back of the room are a series of National Geographics ranging in dates from the past 50 years. Your job is to peruse these during class reading time and then bring conversation to the India page. Furthermore, two novels and three short stories which we read will feature this land that Indiana Jones easily conquered in the Temple of Doom. The pieces are as follows: __Passage to India__, __Mrs. Dalloway__, "To Kill an Elephant", "The Hanging", and "Mark of the Beast." Feel free to add any pictures to this page that pertains to India.

**Passage to India [[image:emforster.jpg align="right" caption="E.M. Forster"]]**
Wed-March 3 chapters 6 & 7 due Thurs-March 4 NONE Fri-March 5 chapter 8 (22 pages) Mon-March 8 chapters 9 due (15 pages) Tues-March 9 chapters 10,11,12 due (14 pages) Wed-March 10 chapters 13 & 14 due (27 pages) Thurs-March 11 View the film to complete novel (in class) Fri-March 12 Finish film and take vocab 5
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This woman is holding a "sari" on her arm. A sari is the name of the long strip of cloth Indian woman drape over their clothes in various ways. (Anna Barrett)

We have a very strong bond with our environment. We are a part of a life cycle. In our universe humans are supposed to be the most intelligent beings. Humans can give any form to the environment, as we have a lot of technical knowledge. Humans, if they want, can reduce pollution or increase it. Humans are related with everything whether it is the life cycle, the food cycle, or the atmosphere.//—Photo Camp participant Naresh Paliwal (photography.nationalgeographic.com)//



I saw this picture in the National Geographic in the back of the room, it's the only one I've read. I searched the internet in hopes of finding a picture worthy of our "Alpha" class, and I hate to copy from the most magnificent magazine ever(according to our DHC), but the website this picture was on was rather uselful. This link will take you straight to the article with this picture, but click on the name at the top of the page to see the rest of the blog. []