I have enjoyed reading your blog posts on the reading assignments! Many of you are doing a very good job of focusing on a specific text, quoting and exploring specific passages from it, and speculating on what the passages mean and how they relate to other texts we have read. Remember, as a general rule, to "say more about less" in your posts. Think about how to dig deeper into a more narrow topic, rather than making broader, sweeping generalizations.

I am concerned, however, about the rate at which you are posting. Several of you have yet to post on the readings, and few of you are on track to complete 20 posts by the original assigned date of Friday, June 26. Therefore, as we discussed at our last chat session, I am extending the deadline for the posts until Monday, June 29. I hope this extension will help those of you taking other Summer Session I courses to complete the posts after that session is finished. I do not intend to extend the deadline for the comments or the research paper, however.