For our first official set of Reader's Notes, you must first listen to the "Wonder Woman" segment of the "Super Powers" episode of the radio program This American Life.​ You can access that podcast from the syllabus.

NOTE: you don't need to listen to the entire hour long podcast, just the Wonder Woman episode.  

Once you've listened to the podcast, review the general requirements of what to do for Reader's Notes. Then post, below, your 300 words, in keeping with the requirements of the assignments, AND, consider what we've been talking about makes a good piece of writing about another person: the details, the facts, the information about that person (evidence) prove what it is the writer wants us to know and believe about the person (thesis). So, in "Wonder Woman," what are all of the things that we learn about the person who is the focus of the story, Zora, from the author Kelly McEvers? And then, what is the big idea--the thesis--the thing that the author want us, ultimately, to understand about Zora? 

WARNING: Remember what I said about not writing in cliches. It would be easy, in this story, to come up with a cliche, but I'm telling you ahead of time, Zora and her story are more complicated than it might seem.

HOW TO POST

1. Click on the "comments" button at the top right of your screen or click on "reply" on the bottom left of your screen. 
2. Fill in the information they ask from you (name and email address)
3. Use the dialogue box to post your response. I suggest writing your post in word or a google doc and cutting and pasting into the blog post dialogue box so you don't lose anything and, also, so you have the chance to read and revise what you've written before it goes live.
4. Click the "send" button and you are done. 

NOTE: If you have trouble posting because it asks you to click on a bunch of pictures, please let me know. The only way to fix this is to contact Weebly directly on my end. 

BROCCOLI, READER'S NOTES, AND PARTNER PROFILE MINI-PAPER
Today in class, as it said on the syllabus, you should have read the short essay about Dr. Ed Brush, professor of Chemistry here at BSU. As you will have perhaps noticed, I wrote that piece. it's an example of a profile, and an example (though a longer version of it) of your first assignment for the semester, The Partner Interview Mini-paper. 

For today, we are focusing on how to successfully write a set of Reader's Notes. We'll go over the assignment in class, but, essentially, for every reading we have in class, you'll need to post BEFORE CLASS your Reader's Notes for whatever we watch, read, listen to, etc. 

FOR TODAY'S CLASS: As we talked about in class today, there are two kinds of information that make up a profile. There is the actual information about the person. And then there is what the author decides it means. In your small group, you discussed both of these two parts of the essay. Please post a short summary of what you discussed by "commenting" or "replying" to this post (see below for full directions). This counts as a first reading journal, even if you aren't super detailed or even right. It counts as long as you post it. If you don't post it. It counts as a "U" and you can't revise it. 

HOW TO POST

1. Click on the "comments" button at the top right of your screen or click on "reply" on the bottom left of your screen. 
2. Fill in the information they ask from you (name and email address)
3. Use the dialogue box to post your response. I suggest writing your post in word or a google doc and cutting and pasting into the blog post dialogue box so you don't lose anything and, also, so you have the chance to read and revise what you've written before it goes live.
4. Click the "send" button and you are done. 

NOTE: If you have trouble posting because it asks you to click on a bunch of pictures, please let me know. The only way to fix this is to contact Weebly directly on my end.