Reading List Proposal
We will be reading 4 books together this semester.
I am selecting the first book, and you as a class will select the other three. Each group will research and deliberate and select at least one book for the entire class to vote on |
Procedure
Now that you have taken stock of your past reading accomplishments and challenges and the range of readerly roles you have played, and roles you now can play due to those accomplishments and challenges (expressed in your inventory and reflection), the next step is for your group research and select at least one book for the class to vote on, and to provide a sufficient rationale, a "good reason," to vote for that book. With five reading groups, that means we will have at least 5 books to vote on using ranked voting, where the top three will become the three remaining books we will read and write about together for the remainder of the semester.
The basic criteria to follow in suggesting any book for the class to vote on:
In your collaboratively written rationale of at least 100 words, make sure to explain how reading the book provides some challenge to your current "reading for," which can be identified within the mimetic, thematic, and/or synthetic registers.
Most importantly:
--persuade the class to vote for this book: What difference will reading and writing about this book do for the class in their growth and development as readers and writers?
Having Something at StakeYou are to strive as a group to have rationales sufficient for you to both read the works on your proposed list, and develop your current reading practices and perhaps even create and develop new reading practices that promise to open up new possibilities for you to read and write within new genres of writing.
That means you have got to have something at stake for yourself, something that you are going to play for, which you will aim to accomplish as a result of reading, discussing, and writing about the book or books you are recommending. |
For instance, if much of your inventory is of genres of narrative that mostly invite a rhetorical stance emphasizing the mimetic register, then perhaps you ought to explore narratives that push the thematic or synthetic registers. Or if you customarily limit yourself to thematic texts, you might push yourself to engage in more mimetic or synthetic texts. In any case, the selected texts must be new to you in some way. |