EDU 320,<\/p>\n
Class- related reminders:<\/p>\n
Assignments:
\nPlease post on the Discussion Board any past due\/ pending posts such as LSOS\/ Library etc. If you attend story time or book-related events, posting on the DB any lessons learned that related to our class will earn you extra credit. Any LSOS events or tomorrow’s Author’s Tea can count towards this.<\/p>\n
Book Cards – Set 1 due next week on the DB. If there are issues with formatting, create a google document, and post the link to the DB with permission for us to view (but not edit)<\/p>\n
Events:<\/p>\n
Friday February 3
\nAuthors’ Tea at the Global Village Project
\n2PM
\nRequired for all GVP Students (optional as extra credit for others)
\nBOOK CLUBS:
\nYour book clubs should be meeting now. By now, you have a set of regular meeting dates and “how to conduct” our meetings guidelines decided. Please meet regularly to begin planning to present your book to the class. Let me know if you have any questions that come up.<\/p>\n
GROUP Projects:
\nI wanted to share with you some important guidelines:
\nEach group has an equivalent workload and time commitment. Even if it appears that one group has fewer contact hours, please remember that in teaching, the planning hours are often more than teaching contact hours. For instance, I spend many hours outside of class preparing each class session.
\nThe WSA group is currently selecting books that they will begin facilitating\/ leading reading groups with. Even if they are not going to the class every week yet, they are spending a lot of time preparing and planning for their project. Similarly, the LSOS group is working hard to coordinate the logistics of reading aloud for the kindness project. They will research books, curate a shelf, and actually conduct read-alouds for the public in March and April.
\nIn summary, please do not compare your workloads with one another. All groups are working hard, and in their own way.<\/p>\n
Class Social:
\nPlease suggest dates when we can meet to share books on a particular theme. I will provide cookies and we will read out loud together. Good days\/ times for such a class social?<\/p>\n
Class Resources:
\nI often post new links, resources and even TED talks to our Resources page. Please visit it each week to view the new posts. If we don’t have any time in class for something, I often look it up and post it there to avoid sending you too many e-mails.<\/p>\n
Office Hours:
\nPlease come visit 10-11 am every Wednesday and by appointment.<\/p>\n
Questions? Send me an e-mail.<\/p>\n
Wishing you comfort and inspiration in reading,
\nGSethi<\/p>\n
This POEM by a YA Author really spoke to me:
\nAutopsy<\/p>\n
Last night, I dreamed that my passport bled.
\nI dreamed that my passport was a tombstone
\nFor our United States, recently dead.
\nI dreamed that my passport was made of bone\u2014<\/p>\n
That it was a canoe carved out of stone.
\n“But I can’t swim,” I said. “I will drown
\nIf I can’t make the shore. I’ll die alone
\nIn the salt. No, my body will be found<\/p>\n
With millions of bodies, all of them brown.”
\nI dreamed that my passport was a book of prayers,
\nUnanswered by the gods, but written down
\nBy fact checkers in suits. “There are some errors<\/p>\n
In your papers,” they said. Then took me downstairs
\nTo a room with fingernails on the floor.
\nI dreamed that my passport was my keyware,
\nBut soldiers had set fire to the doors,<\/p>\n
To all doors\u2014a conflagration of doors.
\nI dreamed that my passport was my priest:
\n“Sherman, will you battle the carnivores
\nOr will you turn and abandon the weak?<\/p>\n
Will you be shelter? Or will you concede?”
\nLast night, I dreamed that my passport was alive
\nWhen it entered the ICU. It breathed, it breathed,
\nThen it sighed and closed its eyes. It did not survive.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Sherman Alexie 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EDU 320, Class- related reminders: Assignments: Please post on the Discussion Board any past due\/ pending posts such as LSOS\/ Library etc. If you attend story time or book-related events, posting on the DB any lessons learned that related to our class will earn you extra credit. Any LSOS events or tomorrow’s Author’s Tea can count towards this. Book Cards – Set 1 due next week on the DB. If there are issues with formatting, create a google document, and…<\/p>\n