For each chapter you read, you should answer question #1 below in a handwritten journal that you will submit at the
end of the term. This journal should highlight significant ideas, passages, stories, or facts that display knowledge of
having done all of the reading. This can be post-reading reflection, or kept while you read. Throughout the semester
you are to answer any other question from #2-7 below on the class blog (please list which question you are
answering in the title of the blog post or at the start of the post itself).These responses will be used to facilitate
discussion in class, and should prove that you did the entire reading and are prepared for class. Your responses and
interactions on the blog will be graded on a 2 (excellent), 1 (sufficient), and 0 (insufficient) scale. Nothing can be
added late. You should have 15 entries (including Preface and Epilogue) - comments on the work of others is
considered excellent! Repeating what has already been written is not, and will get you a zero.Title your blog post like
this: Name, Chapter, Question being answered (e.g. David Hoffner, Chapter 1, Question #5).
Journal
1. What is the central idea discussed in the chapter? What issues or ideas does the author explore? (Display knowledge of the full chapter, not simply one aspect).
Blog
Journal
1. What is the central idea discussed in the chapter? What issues or ideas does the author explore? (Display knowledge of the full chapter, not simply one aspect).
Blog
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Do the issues affect your life? Directly or indirectly? On a daily basis, or more generally? Now or in the future?
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What are the implications for the future? Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the
book? Are they positive or negative, affirming or frightening?
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What solutions does the author propose to any problems mentioned? Who would implement those solutions?
How probable is success?
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How controversial are the issues raised in the book? Who is aligned on which sides of the issues? Where do you
fall in that alignment?
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Talk about specific passages that struck you as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating,
disturbing, sad. What was memorable?
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What have you learned after reading this chapter? Has it broadened your perspective about a difficult issue—
personal or societal? Has it introduced you to a new idea or way of thinking?
