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WALKING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Purpose: Creating Awareness

After being inundated with memos, lectures, and articles urging campus-wide involvement in writing
across the curriculum, the English department decided to take a different approach and to send our
composition students "walking across the curriculum." The activity allowed students, who were suffering
from mid-semester blahs, freedom from the classroom and allowed instructors a chance to revitalize.
Observing participants enjoying themselves and learning, simultaneously, rewarded both the instructor and
the student.

Because of our success with this activity and its adaptability, we invite others to participate in a similar
learning experience. It is imperative that the Participating instructors must enthusiastically set the stage.
Prior to the activity, we alerted campus personnel and requested their support.

A Memo Alert: To Faculty and Staff

Be prepared to be invaded by composition students walking across the curriculum. This activity teaches
the student about Barton County Community College. Part of the activity, "The Mount Olympus Quest,"
includes their meeting division chairpersons. Be supportive in signing their papers and answering
questions. The activity will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, October 27th and 28th. The purpose,
© besides being informative, is to teach students to word directions specifically and to follow them implicitly.

Thank you for your support.
Directions for Activity: To Students

In pairs, follow the Mount Olympian guide as you "Walk Across the Curriculum." You MUST complete
your quest and present the required evidence to your mentor. Take writing equipment and a dictionary. If
you get lost, go to the library and research the unfamiliar terminology. If you need more than one hour to
complete the quest, you must do so before the next class session.

THE OLYMPIAN QUEST

1. Circle the cartographer’s concept of the campus quad. State exactly where one locates this
representation. *(A map of the campus)

2. Proceed to the Temple of Zeus. (The administration building) This sanctuary protects the higher
gods who direct the progress on intellectual, social, and maintenance levels. Enter sanctimoniously.
Locate the parchment and record the first complete sentence. (Aristotle says, "Know thyself.") Leave
this temple reverently.

3. Turn to the east. Enter the next temple using the portals. Find Anaximander’s haven. (The
planetarium) Chronicle verbatim the posted data concerning public presentations.

4. Venture further into the temple. (Science & Math building) Locate and record the identifying digits
on the portals leading into the graduated amphitheater similar in arrangement to Aristotle’s lyceum.
(S-118) Then have Pythagoras’ kinsman, a god in this temple, initial your paper. (Division chairman)

5. Using the egress which opens toward the east, follow the walkway south and enter the temple of
technology where priests ascribe to the infallibility of recording and regurgitating data. (Technical
building) Ask the master of this phenomena or the god of this temple to initial your script. Pass
through the portals and continue following the walkway. (Computer director or division chairman)

6. Enter the temple of creativity where geniuses vie for recognition. Request the signature of one who

© received laurels for his expertise in the Odeum. (Division chairman named Band Master of the Year)

Continue exploring until you reach the inner sanctum, genuflect, and sign your name in the Book of

Knowledge. (The chapel) Retrace your steps, and in the atrium record the name of the artist whose

works hang on the walls.