HAVE BOOKS AND CH. 1 ANNOTATIONS IN CLASS ON WEDNESDAY!

TODAY IN CLASS

• Sign-ups for presentations:  if you do not yet have a group, you will get one on Wednesday .
• Discussion of major categories, using "data" from Chapter 1.  No, it wasn't complete, but you should have gotten the idea of what you need to do.
• Hand-out for the project:  read thoroughly before tomorrow so that you will know if you have questions

FOR TOMORROW

Groups presenting either Friday (Ch. 2) or Monday (Ch. 3):  You need to read Chapter 2 as homework tonight--carefully (maybe twice, in the case of the Ch. 2 folks).  Chapter 2 people:  you'll be sent elsewhere to work together both Wednesday and Thursday.  Ch. 3 people, you aren't excused during Wednesday's class (I suspect at least some of you will be still reading Chapter 3, but you WILL be excused on Thursday.  (Of course you must come to class first!)

For everyone else:  both Wednesday and Thursday will be in-class reading days, so you can suit yourself as to whether or not you have "homework" tonight. 

To everyone else:  Mostly, there will be just one out-of-class day  for each group, but on some days I'll allow some "talking time" for everyone in class.  Everyone is expected to be caught up in their reading to the point of whatever presentations are being given.  You are NOT supposed to be hearing the chapter for the first time as people present.  And you need to be ahead of the schedule as needed in order to prepare your presentations and take advantage of any time excused from class.

The reality is that it's the sort of book that some of you will read very fast and be hard-pressed not to give away plot-spoilers.  And others may work ahead so that you can get the final paper out of the way before the last minute.

Here is the schedule I strongly recommend:
By the end of this week (or at least by the end of the week-end):  be finished with Chapter 4
During next week, May 16-20:  Read Chapters 5-9
Week of May 23-May 27:  Read Chapters 10-15

Given the amount of reading days you will have, this schedule should be relatively easy to follow.

But for those of you who do just what you need to do and and not one moment before, here is the bare-minimum reading schedule:

Chapter 2 finished by this Friday; Chapter 3 by Monday, May 16

Chapters 4 and 5 by Thursday, May 19

Chapter 6 and 7 by Monday, May 23

And now note that there's a not a gap day between 8/9 and 10/11; this means be reading ahead . . .
Chapters 8 and 9 by Thursday, May 26
Chapters 10-11 by Friday, May 27

But the last set of chapters--12 through 15--really needs to be finished by the end of Memorial Day week-end so that you will have a few days to write your SoS/Tess paper.