Enter your blogs with the title as indicated in this intro blog.
Reading and Reflection Blog:
Each student will engage in the practice of journaling on the world-wide-web–this is called blogging. Your class reading and reflection blog will be compiled and posted at the appropriate blog site: the title of the blog is C. S. Lewis and Myth 2012 and the address is http://cnuphil4512012.blogspot.com/. Make sure to start the blog with your name and the subject of the entry. Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections which relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments. Any questions the student has when reading or completing assignments should be written in their blog. Reflections may relate to connections the student makes between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or in informal conversations. Students are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class. These applications make great reflections. The student should bring questions from the blog to class and ask those questions that were raised in specific blog entries. As those questions are addressed and answered in the classroom discussions, the student should make note of the discussion and answers within subsequent blog entries. This class blog will reflect the quality of the student’s daily classroom participation and completion of homework assignments, and will be graded with this in mind. The student may submit the blog for grading at several times during the course of the semester. The blog is not the same thing as a compilation of class lecture notes; it is the product of written personal reflection related to the class. A good journal will contain at least 15 entries. At least 6 of the entries should be reflections on the connection between assigned essay reading and the fiction of Lewis: 2 from Narnia, 2 from the Space Trilogy, and 2 from Till We Have Faces. At least 5 of the entries should focus on an outside reading, something not assigned as part of the class requirements. Finally, 4 of the entries will be centered on a topic of the student’s choosing. Each journal entry should be dated and given a title related to the subject of reflection.
