INDEPENDENT WORK WEEK
WEEK 8 is designed to allow students time to work on video editing (Oyster Tasting AND 2-3 minute Chocolate + _____ : Paired Tasting of Terroir), creating Tea and Oyster case study webpages, planning final presentations, drafting self evaluations, and crafting a draft in-program ILC of spring quarter independent projects.
See the Terroir Week 8 Independent Work Week Guide.
Read this Terroir_Spring_Schedule to help think about the spring quarter schedule, the Permaculture Design Course, and how it fits into your planning.
WE WILL NOT MEET AS A CLASS DURING WEEK 8 HOWEVER THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE STILL REQUIRED.
Faculty will be available during the following times: Wed 10-11 Sem2 E3109 (SW and AB); Thurs 11-12 LIB 2617 (SW); Friday 10:30-11:30 Sem2 E3105 (AB).
TUESDAY
Online and Independent Tasting Lab: Stuckey ch 12, “Umami”
WPreLab 5: To be completed online at canvas, as usual, by 1 pm Tuesday (2/23/16)
Umami Tasting Lab: To be completed with your Terroir peer group or groupings of co-tasters at time and place of your choice during week 8. Experiment with the taste of umami and then describe to each other the results of at least two of the five classic umami pairings discussed by Stuckey on page 255. You will demonstrate your learning by writing a description of your tasting activity and what you learned. Bring a typed, hard copy to seminar on Week 9.
WEDNESDAY
9:30-11 Prepare for next week’s chocolate seminar by reading assigned chapters in The New Taste of Chocolate 52-125 plus preparing 1 recipe from pages 143-226 in preparation for your video of this chocolate recipe paired with the taste of another terroir-laden food of your choice. Arrange to borrow the text if you do not have it and do not want to buy it. Some copies are available in the Greener Bookstore (2.10.16).
11:30-1 Art Lecture Series
Melissa Buzzeo, Brooklyn based poet. Please check out her writing, which includes references to water and tea, to books and stones, to bodies and words, to affect and language at these sites: http://www.trickhouse.org/vol7/writers/melissabuzzeo.html
THURSDAY
9-12; 1-4 Library 2617 Computer Rooms reserved for Terroir program student work