Monday: Sean’s seminar group meets at 3:30 at the library reference desk. (Jean’s group, see Wednesday below.)

Monday: 11 a.m. Process paper due – see the recent handout. Don’t forget to list your out-of-class hours for the previous week. Also, comment on your effort on note-taking skills including the quantity and quality of the notes you took during Sean’s 3 weeks of lectures. Read through page 115 of The Universe in a Single Atom.

Monday: Bring two copies of your pre-seminar paper (see below) to seminar. Seminar starts at 4:45 p.m. You should get started writing your discussion questions on the board and reading the pre-seminar papers written by some of your colleagues -- even if your faculty is not there. Take ownership of your education and time. We have only 4 hours per week to discuss the texts and so we should make the effort to remain focused during that time.

Pre-seminar paper: Choose one or two pages in the reading for today that struck you as interesting or exciting, puzzling or challenging, or contained ideas that you would like to challenge. Summarize this page (or two) in a single paragraph. State the chapter title and why this material fits under that chapter title, that is, put the page that you summarize into context. Be sure to cite the page number(s) from the text that you are summarizing. In a separate paragraph, state a question that you would like to discuss during seminar and your response to it in one or two sentences. There is no assigned word count, but your essay must fit on a single page. Single-spacing is fine.

Wednesday: Jean’s seminar group (and anyone who missed the Library Workshop) meet at Library Reference Desk at 11 a.m. There’s no need to meet with your writing groups this week. Read final project handout several times. Read handout on potential topic choices.
• Download and read The Secrets to Raising Smart Kids by Carol Dweck in Scientific American Mind 18, 37 – 43 December 2007. It will be available at our website under the “Protected Materials” menu.

Thursday: Bring two copies of your pre-seminar paper to seminar. See the instructions for the pre-seminar paper above. You may write your paper on either The Universe in a Single Atom (119 – end) or on the article by C. Dweck.

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