Monday, August 22

Hi. Welcome back to school. I hope you had a great summer and I am looking forward to a great year with you.

Freshmen: Today we went over the basic expectations of the course. Your homework tonight is to read for 20 minutes. Bring the book you are reading from to class every day. This book should be something that is not one of our summer reads or one of the books that we will read together as a class. Once you finish reading this book, read something else - you should always have a book to read. If you do have copies of the summer reading books (either Funny in Farsi or When the Emperor was Divine), bring them to our next class meeting because we will do an assessment and writing sample. Finally, be sure to post to the blog today for 10 points, and bring a box of tissues for 10 points extra credit. Also - if you don't already have our class vocab book, get one, as we will begin working from it soon.

CNF: Thank you so much for taking the class. Today we simply got an introduction to the course and the primary theme - ways of knowing things - was also introduced. Get a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink for next Monday's class.