solved Folks:For Tuesday please read “Learning the Grammar of Animacy,” pages

Folks:For Tuesday please read “Learning the Grammar of Animacy,” pages 48-59 in Braiding Sweetgrass. The writing in response to the reading has two parts. First, please create a reflection of 300+ words on one or more of the following (or cook up some questions of your own):As a botanist, Kimmerer speaks “fluent botany” and claims that science “polishes the gift of seeing” (48). But she also says that science can be a “language of objects” that “reduces a being to its working parts” (49). How has your own work with science affected your listening and looking?In what ways does Potawatomi differ from English as a language? What differences exist in the way they name things? In the way they use nouns and verbs? How does each language affect the listening and looking of those who speak or at least study it, according to Kimmerer?Near the end of the chapter, Kimmerer summarizes her view this way: “I’m not advocating that we all learn Potawatomi or Hopi or Seminole, even if we could. Immigrants came to these shores bearinga legacy of languages, all to be cherished. But to become native to this place, if we are to survive here, and our neighbors too, our work is to learn to speak the grammar of animacy, so that we might truly be at home” (58).Is it possible to create a “grammar of animacy” in a non-native language like English or Spanish? What resources might be available for this purpose in these languages? What kind of mindset must one bring to this task, in your view?Please post this reflection to the first forum for the day on Moodle. (ignore this)Secondly, please select a passage of 1-3 paragraphs from the essay for careful study. Try to pick a passage with “a lot going on.” (You should be able to copy and paste the passage into your working document.) Then, please craft a second reflection in response to some of the “Questions for a Passage from a Literary Essay” attached to this email. Please post this work to the second forum for the day (ignore this) and please be ready to share your observations about the passage in class.