WELCOME!

Intros: instructor, students

• Name and pronouns
• Major?
• Grad school aspirations?
• Something about yourself
• Last book you read for fun?

About the course:

• What are novels? How old are they?
• Syllabus
• Hybrid courses
• Sign-ups: Commons and Twitter

By next week:

• Create your “about me” page on this site: add at least one image, one link, one video
  • See “how to post” for details

Next week:

• No presential class! We are reading texts online, communicating on twitter, and I have some additional videos and readings for you to complete on your own time (plus a reading quiz)
• This is the only fully-online class we’ll have! We meet every week after this for 2 hours.