March 3, 2020


Ongoing List of Required Instructional Reading



You Must Read


You wouldn’t usually see two of these update posts in a row, but this one has just one message: You need to read everything posted, copied, or written on a whiteboard.

To help, one of those whiteboards looks like this today:

We’ll use that space for a few weeks, mostly as a visual focal point. Your immediate focus is what you should have read. You’ve had all seven project posts for a month. There are modified handouts and printed copies, too. If you haven’t read everything, start reading now.

Then focus on the updates from yesterday:

Those three posts must be read. They reiterate the same information with increasing detail, so you can work your way up to the main post over the next week or so. You should immediately read the March 2 and TL;DR posts, however.

The related essay excerpts have been posted in several places and photocopied. Make sure you’ve read them.

Finally, you’ve had a formative assignment on statements of purpose since February 13. If you haven’t read it and watched its video examples, you have until Thursday:

As that Classroom posts says, you’ll have photocopies to annotate. The more you’ve read before Thursday, the more productive your work will be.

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