In less technical speak, let me know when you are ill or will not be in class, and do not miss more than 3 classes or your grade will begin to suffer drastically. If you do not like to talk in class, then you will need to make sure you that your attendance is stellar. Due Fridays, at the beginning of class, starting on January 19 th . You will keep a weekly writing journal so that you can write regularly and informally about your response to the assigned readings. Weekly entries should be about 2 pages in length, and should respond to the reading, rather than simply summarize it.
Entries are provocative, spirited, lively, and varied.
Entries regularly try to stretch or to pose questions which engage the student but for which the student may have no easy answer. Entries should reflect back on previous entries. 2 shows normal, expected intellectual involvement. Entries tend to focus on summarizing the reading rather than exploring it, or tend to repeat the themes discussed in class. Entries discuss similar themes in a repetitive manner.