Just a reminder to make sure that everyone's on track...
Tomorrow night, Sunday, July 1, before 11pm, you should be posting your Journal entry on iLearn for these readings:
Week 2 Journal Entry
Díaz, pp. 14-26, 44-106, (107-125 optional), 126-307.
On iLearn: Thomas Phillips, “A Journal of a Voyage Made in The Hannibal of London in 1694.”
Machiavelli, pp. 15-16 and Chapters 1-10, 12-19, 21-26.
I have updated the
Calendar on this website to reflect the dates of the Journal entries, and I have added the dates to the
Journal page as well.
We'll be going over all of this in class on Monday, so don't stress-out on this first Journal entry, it's not designed to be a major project.
What should happen, is that you do all the readings for the week and take notes on them, either by handwriting them out, or typing them for yourself, or just highlighting or underlining. Then, with all those notes together, you write a paragraph (about 150 words) that condenses the major ideas from your notes for all the readings.
You don't need to write about every theme, and you don't need to cover every detail of every book -- that information might be in your notes, but the Journal entry should be pretty concise.
As we go through our discussion in class, you can rely on your notes and your Journal entry to talk about the readings. I am the only one that sees the Journal entries, and I will comment on them in iLearn.
These Journal entries are much more about
effort than being perfect, so feel free to pose questions in them as well.
Please send me an email if you have any questions at all -- don't be afraid to ask:
sande010@ucr.edu