Topics in Literature
Summer 2018
Ms. Fichera
Course
Outline
First, I want to say that I think you made
an awesome decision in signing up for this class, so congratulations. You are going to love it! And so am I. J I just want to go over some basics here, but
I’ll talk more in person at our various meetings. The reason I’m putting this outline in
writing now is so you can get started because I know a lot of you want to. Here
goes.
1. Choose
a topic. This can be virtually anything you are really interested in,
but it can’t be what you just did your history research paper on. It can be related but not the same. So see me if you have questions about that.
2. Use
the link to my class blog that I sent you via School Loop. It has a lot of guidelines and examples and
also has links to all of my students’ blogs from this year. I’m keeping this up rather than creating a
new one for you because of all of the example topics and blogs it
contains. It’s a great resource and you
should spend time exploring it before doing anything else.
3. Set
up your own blog, specific for this class, on Blogger. Ms. Costello can help you with this, or you
might already know how to do it. Don’t
use a blog you already have. You need to
set up a new one.
4. Loop
mail me the link to your blog so I can add it to my site and access your blog
anytime. This way you can also access
each other’s blogs anytime.
5. Choose
books on your topic that equal a thousand pages or more. Again, ask me, your parents, Ms. Costello,
other teachers, etc., for help in choosing them.
6.
Have your blog set up and all of the
books in your hand when we meet again
during finals week. (I’ll loop mail you a date and time.)
7. The
class officially starts during finals, but you can start now if you want. (And I encourage you to because then you’ll
be done earlier, make your summer easier, etc.)
Requirements:
1,000 pages of reading on your topic, annotated
200 vocab words found and defined
10 quotation blogs
10 analytical blogs
10 “quick burst” blogs
Ten hour active project
at the end and 1,000 word blog reflection on it
Reminder:
This
class replaces and entire semester
of you going to class five days a week and most likely doing homework for at
least four of them. Signing up for it
and doing it at the end of the school year and beginning of the summer is a no brainer. You are going to learn a ton about a topic that you are really interested in and have
something awesome to show on your college application (if you decide to go that
route). Do not drop it except for in
extremely extenuating circumstances; it would be a huge mistake because this is
going to be a great experience. Let’s
keep checking in before finals and get everyone on a roll. J
