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e-Circles

By lisahuff on Jan 2, 2008 in Blog Assignments




Someone once said writing is the inking of our thinking. Before we can write profound analyses of text, we need to mull over the text, reading and re-reading it deeply, thinking and discussing the text, bouncing our ideas off other critical readers of the same text. Good discussions help us all polish–or sometimes discover–our ideas. This polishing allows us to ink our thoughts.

In the spirit of discussion, we will undertake e-Circles this nine weeks. Here’s how it works:

  • Each group chunks the text into four reading assignments.
  • Each week (for four consecutive weeks) one member “hosts” the discussion on his or her blog.
  • The “host” generates three discussion questions–questions that will generate an AP-level discussion about the text. These questions might deal with the author’s style, with themes of the text, with characters, with setting, with connections to other texts, current events, or societal/world issues.
  • Each week, group members respond to at least two of the questions using the comments feature.
  • Ideally, a lively discussion ensues.

    • Below are the dates for the four discussions. I will grade each week’s discussion each Monday. To allow time for everyone to comment, the host must post discussion questions no later than Friday each week.

  • eCircle 1: January 11
  • eCircle 2: January 18
  • eCircle 3: January 25
  • eCircle 4: February 1

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