During the second meeting of class, you will be asked to sign up for a reading unit. Your job will be to lead the class in reflecting on that reading unit for the first 40 minutes of class. You can break the class into small groups, assign questions or passages, invent tasks, do role-play whatever you think will assist the class in getting to the central points of the reading and how it relates to the overall question of language for God. I am happy to discuss the reading with you before the day of your presentation. You will not be expected to understand the material inside and out, but you will need to know the basics of the reading, and have made attempts to understand any passages or concepts which are unclear or confusing.
Good questions are just as important or even more important than good answers.
Your written lesson plan, any handouts, and the class discussion will all factor in the grade. Give the copies of the handout to me at the beginning of class and I will distribute them at the appropriate time. You need not know the answers, but it would be helpful to be able to reference passages which you think are relevant to the question. The entire class will always be responsible for the discussion and group dynamic. You may write about what you find persuasive, confusing, or incorrect in the reading.