There is one extra credit opportunity in this class, and it is worth 5 points.
Students can join a reading group that will meet 6 times during the semester, and meetings will last one hour. In order to receive credit, students must attend 5 meetings, they must arrive with notes and/or annotations in the text, and they must be actively engaged in discussion. The use of AI/LLM technology during reading, note-taking, and discussion is not allowed. Because this is an extra credit opportunity, there are no "excused" absences. Students can miss one of the meetings, and they do not have to provide a reason for missing. However, anyone who misses more than one meeting for any reason will not receive credit.
The group will discuss __________. The reading group will discussion will be about the book itself, but it will also be a discussion of your experience of reading the book in its entirety. When did you read? Where did you read? What was difficult, challenging, or rewarding about the experience? Given media reports about the struggles of many college students to read entire books, the goal of this reading group is to provide you with space to read a book start to finish and to reflect on the book as well as on your own capacity for the attention often required for this kind of activity.
