Open your journal in your folder on Google Drive.
Quote:
“Muir’s theory—that Yosemite Valley had been filled from wall to wall with a glacier some three thousand feet thick—contradicted the beliefs of most noted geologists of his day. In fact, Josiah D. Whitney, the chief geologist of California, had determined that glaciers had played an insignificant role in the carving of Yosemite…When Whitney learned that Muir was claiming Yosemite had been carved by glaciers, the professor dismissed his theory with one sentence: ‘What does that shepherd know about it?’” (Warrick 58-59).
Prompt:
Was someone now famous in your culture once treated like Muir? What did s/he do or discover? How did s/he react to being marginalized? If you can’t think of anyone, have you or has a group that you belong ever been dismissed or marginalized? How? How did you (or your group) respond?