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.
1 shows substandard or obviously hasty comment. Entries are brief, and indicate that not all the reading has been accomplished. Entries seem cursory, and the result of coercion rather than interest. Entries make no attempt to reflect on much beyond the immediate entry. Distributed in class, Friday, February 9.