You should have a journal recording your reading as far as you got since Wednesday. I've printed out the ones that were posted on the forum, so that we'll have some extra copies to work with. Our work this morning is mainly to see what kinds of things are most useful to include in such a journal, and get ready to read the rest of the play, and maintain the same sort of journal (but better, of course) between now and Wednesday.

We'll do that by reading each others' journals and marking on them (especially mark things you might want to point out as good ideas, interesting questions or reflections, or things you'd like to ask about). We'll take whatever time it takes for everyone to read all the journals we have, carefully, and then to discuss them.

You may have noticed that last time I called it a diary, and this time I'm calling it a journal. That's because in an article I was reading I ran across a nice distinction between the two: someone said, if you're just recording what happened, that's a diary; but if you're keeping track of your own reflections and thoughts, that's a journal.

What I'm hoping will happen here is a combination of the two: stay close to the text (what's happening) but be open to wondering, reflecting, questioning.

Bring a journal which gets you to the end of the play for class Wednesday.

Speaking of journals

If you check the records, you'll notice that a number of people haven't regularly posted learning journals. This is an important part of the process of this course. Since it's clear that almost everyone's mark will be determined by the quality of a final learning reflection which demonstrates the breadth and depth of the learning that's happened for her, these journals need to be kept regularly, and to be reflective and thoughtful (see above about reading journals).

Fairly soon we'll do the midterm reflection I alluded to in the course introduction; it's worth renewing the process of regularly stopping and reflecting in writing.