Summer Session #1 & *All Souls* Passage Responses

The first summer session will be held at eight antemeridian (8:00 am) on Thursday, July 7 in room 2207. (We'll finish between ten and eleven am.)

Bring your responses to ten passages from All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald to class on Thursday, July 7. (Bring the book, too, if you have a copy. If you're looking for a copy currently there is one copy not taken out at Sawyer Free Library but there are also copies elsewhere in the NOBLE system that will be sent to Sawyer Free Library if you ask the librarians there.)

If you cannot attend the session send an email letting me know why you won't be there and then make sure you email your passage responses by midnight Thursday, July 6. If you are going to be away and do not have access to email where you are going make sure you contact me before leaving.)

Here is a link to a passage response form that I recommend using.
Notice that sixty words is a minimum and not a recommendation. Responses that short will likely score in the lower half of the grading rubric (needs improvement/warning status) whereas typical AP level responses vary are most of in the 100 to 300 word range.

Here is a link to the grading rubric for passage responses.
Click on the link if you want to understand how you will be evaluated. I recommend reading this. Email me with questions.

Here is a link to AP-level passage responses by two former students. I recommend taking a look at these so you are familiar with the level of work that AP students produce.

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Also, don't forget to comment on the previous blog post and to respond to the email I sent last week. (I asked you to reply to the email with your favorite word. Today I might have responded with the word perspicacious.)

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Finally, for long term planning:

The second summer session discussing Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan will be held on Tuesday, July 26. (Passage responses for Omnivore's Dilemma will be due in person or by email.)

The third summer session discussing Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano will be held on Tuesday, August 16. (Passage responses for Century of the Wind will be due in person or by email.)