Remember, no reading for Thursday's class. Instead, we're going to have our first Reading Exam over the material. We'll have one every other week after going through a good chunk of reading from the books in the class. There are three things I'm looking for in your Reading Exam:
1. I can tell you've done the reading for the class (most of it, anyway)
2. I can tell you've listened attentively to our class discussions and can respond to some of the ideas/conversations we've introduced
3. You can respond to these ideas with your own opinions/ideas, while still repsonding to what you read and what we said about it
Each Reading Exam will have two questions, and will ask you to choose one and write about it using your book to support your ideas. You must quote from the book to get full credit, so I can see that you understand the general ideas in the book and can use them to support/illustrate your ideas. So again, bring your book to class!
If for any reason you can't make it to class on Thursday, it's your responsibility to make it up. Just e-mail me and we can arrange a time for you to take it.
ALSO: Next week we're going to start a new book by the ancient Greek poet Sappho called Stung With Love. Make sure you have this, since I'll give you reading for Tuesday's class. We'll come back to Hamilton's Mythology in a week or two, so don't sell or lose it in the meantime!
If you have any questions, e-mail me at jgrasso@ecok.edu.
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