Read each of the following articles found on the Web and react to them in your journal. Fahrenheit 451 . Read one book from the Contemporary Issues reading list distributed in class. You will report on this book in class the second weekend. Beginning the first day of class, record your thoughts, opinions, apprehensions, questions, convictions and reactions to the ideas for class discussions, readings and related professional contacts.
Every day spend enough time thinking and reading to be able to have something to write about.
Reacting means raising questions, exploring ideas, trying out answers to your own questions. Use large margins or use a different font so you can go back and add to your own entries or develop new ideas before sending the journal to me by October 1 . I will converse with you by writing in the margins. Here are a few questions that might stimulate your own ideas. What do you see in your daily activities at home or work, in newspapers, magazines, works of fiction, poetry, movies, television etc.