As you prepare for your presentations next week, we will read one secondary text about Italian travelers and conduct an exemplary class discussion on Thursday. This will model to you what it means to critically engage with a text, to focus on argument and evidence, and to link a secondary text with primary material. The… Read more »
How do individual steps and phases fit into the overall trajectory of our course? Take a look at the slides I presented in class today: Lead101 project overview from GuGra
Here’s the link to a document that describes in detail the annotated bibliography assignment and the upcoming presentations. Please read it carefully and let me know immediately if you have any questions. Zotero/Annotated Bibliography assignment
What do we need to research in more depth? Goethe’s Italian Journey covers a lot of ground. Not only literally in terms of the miles he travels from Carlsbad to Rome but also metaphorically in terms of his frequent references to geology, culture, and history, to name a few. In order to build our web application,… Read more »
In our second reading segment, Goethe is quickly approaching Rome via Venice, Bologna, and Florence. As we read and tweet this section, please make sure you switch hashtags: #asclead101padua. The groups should continue their posting of text excerpts and summaries on the google spreadsheet. Here’s an embedded twitter feed for #asclead101padua that captures our reading… Read more »
We are off to our first reading segment. Please take a look at the syllabus calendar where you will see the page assignment. From Thursday August 27 to Monday September 1 I assigned 90 pages. Please make sure to spread out your reading over several days instead of waiting for the last evening! Download the… Read more »
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