Week 3 Syllabus: September 4-8
OUR CLASS HAS PRACTICED ALL OF OUR IMPORTANT routines for the class—how we hold discussions, how to submit homework on Canvas using Scan Genius, how to complete a google survey, posting a paragraph to Squarspace, and after discussing style and content, posting a revision to your original comment to be graded. This week we will begin watching a documentary about a young American man with autism, featured in Disney’s Life, Animated. We will write a comparison/contrast paragraph about the main character in our summer novel and the subject of the film.
WEDNESDAY, September 6
Meeting in the NF library to discuss how to investigate and locate possible books of interest, using: Goodreads, Novelist, NT library catalog, via keywords, subject headings, and reviews.
Rules for your independent reading include:
Must be a book you have not read.
Must be of interest to you (either by author, genre, subject, style)
Bust be a printed book with words
HW: Read and annotate this handout (on paper—print it out if you didn’t get a copy in class).
Friday, September 8
Cleaning up assignments that might now have been turned in. You should have submitted:
Two drafts of a ¶ on the poem “About Competition” on Squarespace;
The first draft of that ¶, stapled to your class discussion notes and your annotations on the poem;
A survey via a google form (included a ¶ about favorite animal, and story about that animal);
Signed course expectations submitted to Canvas via Scan Genius
Small group work on study guide questions for the first 74 pages of Curious Incident.
We will spend the last 40 minutes of class to begin the documentary, Life, Animated.
HW: Type your answers to the study guide questions.