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= = = = =**Welcome to Book Discussions**=

The current book for discussion is James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a semi-biographical coming of age novel written at the turn of the twentieth century. Written in a stream-of-consciousness format, the book can be difficult to understand but is well worth the effort.

You are a member of one of three teams and you will work with your team members to define some of the parts of the book in order to make the whole book more accessible. Here's what you are to do:
 * Meet with your team members to assign tasks. You can do this on your home page (see assignment page for more details). Assign different people to perform different tasks on subsequent days. That way everyone will have some experience with each task. Members also may design their respective home pages.
 * Set your reading schedule. Make sure that you have enough reading for each night and weekend to have material to talk about in the book. You may want to assign a chapter at a time and then break it into chunks. It is up to you and your team to decide how to read this text.
 * Be sure to sign your work. You may want to introduce your work for the day with a brief synopsis of your discoveries.
 * Read what others have written each day and respond to what they are saying. Be sure to include your name with your comment. You are expected to converse with each other on all the assignment pages--not just write your information for the day. Make these pages work for you in understanding the book.
 * Remember that I can join any conversation on your assigned wiki space at any time--and ask questions or see who is writing and who is not. Use this space to practice your academic thinking and writing.

Crane
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