Edgewood University
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
Edgewood University pt 2
100

This is the field where the Edgewood soccer and lacrosse teams play their home games.

What is Edgewood University Field at Reddan Park?

100

This word means mutual exchange.

What is reciprocity?

100

Along with plot, characters, and narrative perspective, this is a key element of narrative.

What is setting?

100

This is the economic principle Kimmerer wants to oppose—it is the opposite of abundance.

What is scarcity?

100

One of the five values associated with the heritage and mission of Edgewood University, this is the value being celebrated this academic year.

What is community?

200

This building houses the Diane Ballweg Theatre and the Edgewood University Art Gallery.

What is the stream?

200

This word refers to “a spoken or written account of connected events,” and can be in the first, second, or third person.

What is narrative?

200

One of the three points in the rhetorical triangle, this Greek word refers to the credibility and positionality of the teller.

What is ethos?

200

This is Kimmerer’s professional/educational field.

What is botany?

200

This is the year in which Edgewood University will celebrate its centennial.

What is 2027?

300

This was Professor Pete’s #1 Priority Practice.

What is show up to class?

300

This is the word Robin Wall Kimmerer uses to refer to the means of exchange in all kinds of economies.

What is currency?

300

This word refers to the way the plot is connected, so that all the pieces hang together and make sense.

What is coherence?

300

This is how Kimmerer describes the serviceberry’s faithfulness to seasonal weather patterns, signaling certain changes in the environment.

What is “calendar plant”?

300

This is where you can find your midterm grades.

What is Edgewood Express, log in and check Academics?

400

If you find you have a hold on your registration, this is the where you should go to find out about it.

What is SSC/Academic Advising or Edgewood Central?

400

This word refers to the ability to act on your own environment and control your own actions.

What is agency?

400

These narratives are “culturally shared stories that guide thoughts, beliefs, values, and behaviors” (Brewster 44)

What is dominant or master narratives?

400

This is the indigenous tribe of which Kimmerer is an enrolled member. What is Potawatomi?

What is Potawatomi?

400

This is the next play being produced by the Edgewood theatre Arts program, and the performance dates will be Nov. 14-22

What is William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night?

500

This is the name for the original home in Southwest WI where the Sinsinawa Dominican sisters lived in community, now a retreat center.

What is the mound?

500

This word signifies the opposite of a publicly shared good—it refers to privately owned and traded goods—rather than shared, they are extracted from their point of origin and either sold or accumulated.

What is commodities?

500

This successful Indian businessman and Bollywood producer identifies communication and storytelling as two skills essential for success.

What is Ronnie Screwvala?

500

The Potawatomi root for the word “berry”—“min”—is also the root for this word. What is gift?

 What is gift?

500

Where is the Dean of Students/Res Life office?

What is DeRicci 222?