Your choice of independent reading for the course is mostly up to you if it fulfills the below expectations, but we'll be glad to help you decide on or find a book if you like. One possibility is choosing one of the book club options that you are not reading.

General Expectations

• Your reading should be book length, whether fiction or non-fiction.
• Your text must deal with ethics in some direct way, preferably, but not necessarily, within the realm of sport.
• Independent Reading texts will be the basis of the Assignment Five essay. Reading should begin ASAP and be done about two weeks before class is scheduled to end.

Individual Reading Journal Expectations

• Independent Reading Journals are to be written in double-entry manner; we'll go over this in class.
• Each week, five journal entries required for English 94/98 students, 10 for 151/99 students.
• Credit will only be given to journals are submitted weekly.
• Double-entry journals require that the page have a line drawn vertically down it's middle. On the left should be a direct quote from the text, on the right your response. Provide the page number for the quote.
• Responses should contain a balanced mix of the following response genres:
  • Restatement: This amounts to a paraphrase or summary statement of the quoted material.
  • Asking Questions: List some questions that the passage prompts. Feel free to answer them as well.
  • Making Connections: Connect ideas and events in the text to your life. What are you reminded of? How does it relate to you? Provide some explanation along these lines.
  • Evaluation: This is where you might critique some of the ideas, characters or events in the text, maybe developing solutions to the/their problems, seeing new applications for the ideas in the text, something along these lines.
• These journals will be read and responded to by one of your teachers each week.