Wednesday March 11/ 2015

We are approaching the end of Unit three in the coming week, and I want to urge you all to be up to date with your assignments before we enter Unit 4. During the following weeks, you will need to be available to work with your research team on a regular basis, so adjust your schedules accordingly please.

This week we will continue our readings of  Green Grass Running Water and finish up with a most interesting task.  In the lesson 3:2, I suggested that there is no doubt that King wants us to work to get the story. His invitation is specific; it is up to you to bother to find out what the symbols mean. Reading this novel means you have to be willing to pay attention, to speak the words out loud, to listen up –to look it up and, perhaps the most important reading strategy to begin with, is to be willing not to know. With lesson 3:3  you are going to look it up and make connections between the characters in the novel and the stories they bring with them.

Your blog assignment is to hyper-link your research on the characters and symbols in GGRW  — according to the pages assigned to you on our Student Blog page. You should write a 600 to 1000 word blog that explains the connections you have found in context with that part of the novel, or in a general context with the entire novel. Be creative, be critical and ask questions.

Every semester students ask for an example of a blog that hyper-links assigned pages – so here is one for you:  https://blogs.ubc.ca/kozarkristin/assignment-33-not-is-all-what-it-seems/ – an example of hypertexting