Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Changes in Class Structure

Dear students,

As I spoke about briefly before I am making some changes in the structure of the class for this semester.  The main change is that I will no longer assign to you the reading of the entire chapter of Bennett.  Instead I will assign portions and excerpts that deal with specific topics that I want you to focus on.  This does not mean that I don't encourage you to read the entire chapter (or at least listen to it) - I do, it's just that I will not try to cover all the material in class.

The second change is that I will take the first portion of class at the beginning of each new chapter and we will together go over the timeline and key people for this chapter.  You may have some things to look up afterwards, but you will not be assigned these as a pre-class assignment.

The third change is that each week you will turn in to me a one page narration from your week's reading assignments.  Some weeks the topic will be assigned and some weeks the choice will be yours.  Eighth and ninth grade narrations should be typed and at least one page double spaced in length. 

The fourth change is in the 'extra' requirements for the class.  For the remainder of this year I will be discontinuing the current events requirement.  We will return to this requirement the beginning of next year but with a bit of a different approach and more guided instruction.  I will also be offering another option for meeting the literature requirement for the remainder of this semester.  I'll post details for this very soon.

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