The Web Board work that you do in this class will account for 20% of your final grade. Your aim is to make thoughtful postings that help you and your colleagues to open up paths of inquiry and understanding into the texts that we read. The assignment consists of two parts:

1. Reading Response Entries. By 12:00 midnight on the day before each class meeting for which reading has been assigned, you will make a Web Board entry that responds to the reading for the day. This entry should be focused rather than general; it should offer thoughtful analysis of a particular feature of the text (an idea, image, character, or theme, for example) and its role in the reading for the day.

2. Reflective Entries. After making the reading response entry each week you will make an additional entry (by 12:00 midnight the following Monday) that reflects and makes connections among the authors, texts, and discussions we have experienced so far. This entry should be multitextual; it should show how the different things we are reading and talking about "fit" together to make "patterns which matter."

The minimum length for successful completion of each Web Board entry is 125 words. Entries that are thoughtful, that show engagement with the class readings and discussions, that are on time, and that meet this minimum length requirement, will receive full credit. Partial credit will be given for late entries on this basis:

         After 12:00 midnight, but before class on the date due:    80% credit
         After class on the date due:                                     70% credit
         Prior to the next class meeting:                                50% credit