Wednesday, August 28, 2013

New Beginnings

As the semester resumes tomorrow, I've decided to use this blog as a part of my class.

Students in two of my classes have been assigned "commonplace reading blogs."  These blogs will work much like the commonplace books of the colonial period in America.  In those historic documents, readers would write down various thoughts and proverbs they found important in their reading.  As this is a writing assignment, I am asking my students to write down a quotation that they find compelling.  They will also then take that a step further by writing their thoughts on that quotation.  This is not a response to the quote so much as a meditation upon it.

Whenever possible, I will also complete a commonplace blog entry and post it here.  I will also continue to post any book reviews that I feel have merit enough to display beyond goodreads.