Day Fifty-Seven / 12.06.10

Today we started by reading some of our Hero papers. Then we discussed a quote by John Updike: "Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a [big event] not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.” We reflected on:

Do you look to be awestruck/surprised/entertained when you read?

Does thinking about books / writing about them lessen the experience?

Next, we began discussing major summary, and why we summarize. We used the sheet below as a guide:

Summarizing