Reflections (Frost, Fitzgerald, Foster)

Should we do reflections for the Read Like A Professor book too? Foster?

Yes, that's right -- I'll edit the page to clarify.

so a total of 4 half page reflections? this is just on what we thought of the author or is it something else?

Yes, basically; I have, however, provided a few more guidelines on both the commenting and half-page response assignments... I've copied the relevant parts from this page:

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL267/2009/01/online_agenda_items/

3. Respond: Before class meets, post 2-4 comments on agenda items that your peers have posted to their own weblogs. (If you have been asked to look at 2 separate readings, then I am asking for 4-8 comments.)

4. Reflect: For each assigned reading, bring to class a half-page reflection paper, that names a student whose agenda item made you see the assigned reading in a different way. I will occasionally, but not always, collect the reflection papers. If you wish, you may do your half-page reflection at the same time you write your agenda item -- but that should mean doing them both early, rather than waiting to post your agenda item until the night before or the morning of the class discussion. (Again, if there is more than one reading assigned as a "text" for a day's class, then I am asking for more than one reflection paper. But note that I am not asking for a separate set of reflections for each and every Frost poem in your handout.)

do we comment on the works of the author? or just the author themselves, because then we would only need 3 half page reflections, right?

I've assigned four items with the label "text" so I'm asking for four half-page reflections. You don't need to respond to every Frost poem separately, but I am asking for one response to "After Apple Picking" and then one response to one or more of the other Frost poems in the handout.

would you like the reflections to be double-spaced?

Well, a half page of single-spaced writing lets you go into greater depth than a half page of double-spaced writing, but I'd rather not read padding. I'll let you decide.