Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Pope

The Pope is visiting the US this week. What do you know about the Pope and what would you like to learn about him? (not just this Pope -- but the office over time)

Your post should contain 3-4 sentences of thought-provoking prose.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Ethiopia Questions for Friday

Post two thought-provoking questions here.

Africa Paper Topic

Post a paragraph describing the topic you want to write about and why you want to write about it. You should have at least four sentences here. The more you write, the more I can help you find materials related to your topic.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Africa

Please post at least two questions you have about Africa that show that you have read and thought about the material on the assigned web pages. Please post by 6 p.m. Sunday (or email me to let me know why that's not possible, and post as soon as you can).

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Islam Paragraph

Please post a one paragraph description of what you would like to learn about in Islam. You can do some initial research, but keep the research brief. I'm more interested in you explaining what question you want to explore and why it's interesting to you. Your paragraph should be about four sentences long, and should begin with "I am interested in learning more about ..."

Monday, March 24, 2008

Islam Questions

Now that you have read a little about Islam (pp. 252-258) and seen about an hour of the video, post at least three questions here. Make sure your questions are spread throughout the reading and not clustered around the first page or so.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Islam Introduction

What do you know about Islam? What do you want to find out?

Post a paragraph here right now in class.