Kip Redick Introduction

 Welcome to the Fall 2020 C. S. Lewis and Myth class blog. Make sure to start the blog with your name and the subject of the entry in the post title area. See this blog title as an example. Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections that relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments. Any questions you have while reading or completing assignments should be written in your blog. Reflections may relate to connections that you make between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or from informal conversations. You are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class. These applications make great reflections. You should bring questions from the blog to class and ask those questions that were raised in specific blog entries. As those questions are addressed and answered in the classroom discussions, you should make note of the discussion and answers within subsequent blog entries. This class blog will reflect the quality of your daily classroom participation and completion of homework assignments and will be graded with this in mind. You may submit the blog for grading at several times during the course of the semester. The blog is not the same thing as a compilation of class lecture notes; it is the product of written personal reflection related to the class. A good journal will contain at least 15 entries. At least 6 of the entries should be reflections on the connection between assigned essay reading and the fiction of Lewis: 2 from Narnia, 2 from the Space Trilogy, and 2 from Till We Have Faces. At least 5 of the entries should focus on an outside reading, something not assigned as part of the class requirements. Finally, 4 of the entries will be centered on a topic of the student's choosing.

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