This blog will allow you to write responses to the readings for a given day that you want to share with the class as a whole. This blog will be publicly viewable as well, so bear in mind that you are sharing your posts with two "publics": our class and the blogging world that may find this blog in a random search. Only the members of our class will be allowed to post to this blog, but what we post will be available for anyone to see, both in the class and out of it, to see.
On this blog, everyone in the class will post responses to the readings and questions that the readings have raised for us. These responses will become part of our class discussion. Although everyone may post comments on other people's posts if they wish, during the course of this semester each class member must create at least 6 unique posts of their own.
Our first group of posts will follow a general format: you should find one "moment" in the reading that is due for your posting day--a passage, a group of lines, a word, even a mark of punctuation--that seems particularly important to you. You will then re-type that passage at the beginning of a post with the page number in parentheses after it. Below that, you should explain why you found the passage significant: what about that "moment" strikes you as worth pointing out? How does this moment help you to understand the entire reading's theme or central idea (as you are coming to understand it)?
Following your analysis of the passage that you have found, you should also write a question that the reading in general (not necessarily the moment you have chosen) is leading you to ask. What about this day's reading is puzzling to you? What would you like the rest of the class to help you answer?
This assignment may change over time: check our course schedule to see if I have put in specific new instructions for a posting day that you have signed up for. But for now: let's get posting!
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