A Link to the Online Text

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to post a link to an online version of the book...this one also has the nice feature of an automatic dictionary link - if you double click on any word, it will give you the word's definition!

So no excuses now...comments on Chapter One by Thursday, May 4, posts/comments on chapters 2-5 by Monday.

A Room With a View by E.M Forster

So You All Didn't Read the Rules....

Hi Everyone,

So I guess if I've learned one thing about AP kids, it's that they don't like to follow directions! If you scroll down through your many, many posts, you will find the place where I ask you to respond to any given assignment in the COMMENTS area of a post, not create a whole bunch of new posts that everyone has to wade through to figure out what they are responding to...especially since we have two projects going on here at the same time! So, again:

• New posts are for new topics only, such as a new chapter of A Room With A View. Everyone has to start a topic at some point.
• Please respond to posts IN THE COMMENTS SECTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

Ms. Meme was good and posted on the novel...she was drowned in a sea of TAL responses. So I'm reproducing her post here and hope you will all follow instructions and comment on it.

Note: this is public. You should make every effort to have your writing appear at its best.

"I am somewhat not so happy about the beginning of the book. I found it really hard to keep Charlotte and Lucy straight (I kept forgettig who was talking). I found it really strange that Charlotte seemed so much more stuck up than Lucy, but she is actually poor. I think her behavior might be because she is older than Lucy, although I wish i knew how old both of them were, this would make the book make a little more sense. As of right now, I think that the room with a view is a representation of greatness and high social class: it is the desired room and most likely the more expensive room. It gives the person looking at the view a sense of greatness, as they have the whole world to look at at their will, its sort of as if it is under their control. For now thats all i have. Maybe the rest of the chapter will reveal more. Farewell for now. COMMENT!! meme mascote (sho'leh)"

This American Life Assignment

Hi Everyone,

Tonight's assignment is a listening and writing assignment for our creative podcast project. You need to go to the This American Life website, select a show, and listen to it. Each show has a single theme around which the presenters tell stories. You can search a given theme; here's a couple that I recommend:

Act V
Music Lessons
Two Steps Back
Lock Up
Fiasco

Use the search function on the botton left of the page to find the topics. Read a little bit about them before you choose. After you've listened (each show is one hour), log on to the comments section of this post and do the following:

• Describe your show.
• Evaluate it - what worked, what didn't, what you learned
• Suggest an idea for our own version.

Enjoy! Remember, you aren't downloading these (that costs money) but listening to them online.

Good Morning and Let's Set Up Some Ground Rules

Hi Everyone,

I'm very pleased to see how many of you have signed on already and I had a little fun figuring out who everyone is! So this is still experimental and I'm trying to figure out how we are going to get the most out of it, so I'd like to set down a few rules of discourse (as we would in class) so that this takes on the form of one of our great class discussion. So...

I'd like to have a single post with comments from everyone for each chapter of A Room With A View. I've posted a reflection for the first chapter(see my first post) that I would like everyone to respond to in the comment field. After the first chapter, whoever is the first student to log on after reading the next chapter can begin the conversation with a post that we will all comment on. I'm going to amend the assignment to now require everyone to begin a discussion at least once to get credit, as well as making at least one decent length comment per post. This way, we don't have a million posts where we should have comments, yes?

Just to practice, could everyone make a comment on this post? Ask a question, clarify something, let me know you've signed on...