Today's handout was the full study guide for Watership Down. The reading schedule, leader assignments, and all study guides are in there. Charlie was our leader for the day.
IN CLASS TODAY:
You took a quick vocabulary quiz.You started covering the study guide for last night's reading until I couldn't stand it any more and jumped in. The study guide is a STARTING POINT for understanding. The vast majority of questions in there, and the tips for reading and reviewing, are there just so you can make sure that you independently get what's going on in the book. By resorting to just these in class, you are reducing what could be fantastic, rich, rewarding discussions to silly busywork and a waste of 45 minutes that you'll never get back.
Please, come with questions that help MAKE MEANING out of what you're exposed to. Once you started moving in that direction, you were off and running. Huzzah!
We spoke about VERISIMILITUDE: having the appearance of reality/truth.
Please, please, please--look deeper into what's going on. You're missing all the fun!
CLASS NOTES:
Notes for today's class may be found here.
HOMEWORK FOR NEXT CLASS:
1. Read 290-312 in Watership Down.
2. Develop a worthwhile question to bring to class that gets to the deeper aspects of this book. Can't think of what to ask? Look again at this incredibly valuable document that you really should be consulting all the time in this class.
3. Hold off on writing the 12-sentence paragraph. I don't think you yet have all that much to say on the topic yet, making it a hard assignment to do and a rotten one to read, but I am hopeful that by the end of tomorrow's discussion, you have a better sense of what you could say on the topic.
1. Read 290-312 in Watership Down.
2. Develop a worthwhile question to bring to class that gets to the deeper aspects of this book. Can't think of what to ask? Look again at this incredibly valuable document that you really should be consulting all the time in this class.
3. Hold off on writing the 12-sentence paragraph. I don't think you yet have all that much to say on the topic yet, making it a hard assignment to do and a rotten one to read, but I am hopeful that by the end of tomorrow's discussion, you have a better sense of what you could say on the topic.
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