Each student will be responsible for two 500-word blog posts on the weeks’ readings/assignments, taken as a whole. Blog posts must be posted by the previous Sunday 5:00 P.M. for a Tuesday class and by the previous Tuesday at 5:00 P.M. for a Thursday class. You should discuss what the main ideas of the readings were and how they connect to broader class themes. Come prepared to spend 5-10 minutes in class getting the conversation rolling (you can produce handouts such as discussion questions if you’d like).

Your blog should offer your own hypothesis of what the main points and ideas of the readings are (what?), offer supporting textual evidence in the form of judiciously chosen direct quotes (evidence?), discuss the ways in which the readings work together (how?), and how they fit into the readings we have done and discussions we have had, as a whole (synthesize).