You'll probably have noticed a pattern in the way things work in the course: spread out, reconnoitre, report back, share what you've found, plan a new expedition. Today is a day for sharing and planning. We should have four groups, each of which has read a work, or works, by a different author, and created reports of their reading.
 

There should be a report of your reading on the forum. What we need to do over the next couple of days is to deepen understanding of those works as much as we can by discussing and exploring the questions they have raised for each of the reporters. You'll remember that Prompt #22 said, "Keep track of questions that come up as you read and append those to your report." The most immediate task is to share those questions (and others that you can think of) and decide on those that it seems to you it would be most valuable to answer, or at least to explore. (They should be questions which it's possible to explore by research, not ones that call for personal introspection or reflection. They might be questions about references or allusions in the work, the social, or biographical, or artistic context of the work, the response to or reputation of it, etc.)

So, during class time today let's see if we can come up with some questions to explore between now and next time. Each group should get together, read each others' reports (I'll have printed out all those available up until just before class time), and discuss points of agreement and disagreement about the work. If you haven't posted a report, that's what you should go do right now.

Groups should focus on the questions that have been raised already and appended to reports, and those that come up as you're reading the reports of others. Decide on questions you think it might be especially valuable to explore and possibly answer over the next couple of days.  Your aim is to put yourselves in a position to explain the work and to the rest of the class, and to make a recommendation about whether everyone should read it, whether we should follow up by reading other works, or whether your summary should suffice. Starting on Wednesday in class I'm going to ask you to put together your collaborative report and recommendation, for next week. Right now, then, with that in mind, your aim should be to identify and agree on the issues you think it useful to know more about.

Come up with a list of questions or issues, and divide them up so that everybody has what might usefully be explored in an hour or two's work. Create a list specifically identifying what everybody's going to do, and hand it to me so that I can get it put on the Web site. If there are members of your group who aren't here, try to generate questions and issues that are left open so that they can explore them between now and Wednesday. Post your question and your answer, or a report of your exploration, on the same forum as the reports, but with your question as the topic line, by class time Wednesday.