You are expected to blog once a week, in advance of our Wednesday’s class, for a total of 10 posts over the course of the semester. (We will not post the first or last week of class or during the week of Thanksgiving). Posts should be approximately 250-300 words and engage critically with the assigned reading for the upcoming class session. In addition to your own posts, each student will take a turn synthesizing your classmate’s comments on a given day. That is, you’ll compose a “meta-post” – a post about others’ posts – highlighting the major concerns, questions, or ideas that surface in your classmates’ comments. Posts are due by 9pm the Monday before class meets. Meta-posts are due before the start of class time. Please sign up for a “meta-posting” day on the posting schedule.

Content of your posts: in your blog you can a) pick a passage that stood out to you (include page reference) and write a short reflection (one/two paragraph) on why this passage is relevant in the context of the class or your own research for this class. The reasons might be personal, intellectual, emotive, or otherwise; b) reflect on how one of the topics analyzed during the course plays out in the readings assigned for the week; c) engage with a secondary sources and discuss it with reference to the readings assigned for the week.

Content of your meta-post: give us some basic information about the material (how many posts were written? were they tagged correctly? Did they present any image, etc.). Identify the common themes or analyzing strategies. Identify some very good comments or comments that deserve more attention. Do the posts somehow change your opinion about the readings? If so, how? Do you want to know more about any of the topics selected?

Audience: the class, but also, potentially an educated reader of Ferrante.

Style: informal but not unclear or incorrect.

Blog posts will not be graded for content by the instructor, but only as “completed/not completed”. The student in charge of the meta-blog will express her evaluation of the general quality of the posts.

Blogging will be 15% of your final grade.

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