Extra Credit Assignment

The extra credit assignment, should you elect to do it, has two components:

1. You will write a blog post on the assigned reading for the class period you are assigned. This should be along the same lines as your previous blog posts, and you may use the same prompt / instructions as the previous blog post assignments.

Post your blog post by midnight the night before class, just as you did with your previous blog posts.

2. You will also write two discussion questions for the story on which you wrote your blog post. Your model for these should be the questions I pose to you in in-class activities, i.e. they should ask the readers to consider some central theme, technique, or “point” of the story. They should not be simple yes or no questions; in fact, they should be the types of questions that identify a potentially irresolvable debate or tension in the story. They should also ask the reader to consider very specific aspects of the text (specific passages, patterns, or techniques) in order to press readers to go deeper, considering issues they might not have noticed on their first or even second readings.

Please email your discussion questions to dlupton@email.unc.edu by midnight the night before the class meeting you are assigned.

You work on this assignment will be scored on a 1-5 scale. The points you receive on this assignment will be added to your final, curved score for the semester. Thus, a 5 on this assignment will raise your grade for the semester by one half-letter.