Day 2

Thurs. Oct. 31

• Summaries of readings

• The School of Athens

• Intro to Essay 1

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Homework

➤ Sign up for an appointment

Sign up for a 1-on-1 appointment with me to talk about your independent language learning project. Put your name on one of the free time slots on the sign up sheet. If none of the available times work for me, message me so we can find another time.

➤ Look at my feedback from the in-class writing

If you want me to keep giving you this kind of feedback on your English, show me some evidence that you’re planning to use this feedback. (For example, you might send me a photograph over WeChat showing me which of these phrases you’ve chosen to record in your language journal, if you have one.)

➤ Read the two sources about the history of liberal education and classical rhetoric

• Oral summary: Eldar

As you read, be thinking: If this information is true, how might it relate to the function of essay-writing in the modern style of liberal arts education that DKU is striving to offer?

➤ Write a paragraph responding to the central question of Essay 1

Writing a paragraph briefly giving your response to the question: “In your eyes, what is the essential function of a college essay, and how do we know if it’s performing its function well?” Print it out and be ready to read it out loud in class on Tuesday. (You can imagine this as either the first paragraph of your essay or just as an outline of your thoughts so far. When you actually write the essay, you can change it.)

➤ Choose and read an essay from Deliberations

Read the Table of Contents of the four issues of Deliberations and choose an essay you’re interested in to read in its entirety. (I gave you the first page of three essays I thought would be the easiest of understand. If you want to read one other than these three, please message me and tell me which one you’re going to read.)

Note that I gave you only the first page of these three essays. Please print out all of the essay you’ve chosen and read all of it.

• Oral summaries:

  • Ellen: Grace Mok, “How AP U.S. History…'“

  • Leo: Karen Ou, “Deciphering the Mozart Effect”

  • Wenwen: Helen Yu, “Making the Familiar Strange”

As you read, fill out the questions on the Essay Reading Worksheet. (If you can’t the answer, that’s fine — just write “Can’t find it” or “Can’t figure it out.”) Feel free to either fill this out on the computer or to handwrite it. Bring it to class and be ready to hand it in to me.