WEEK 1: DAYS 1-5


Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474-1478


Music selection: Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll


Review course orientation and procedures.  


Remember that the more detailed your narrations are, the more credit you receive. Good narrations, consistently done, mean that you can be exempt from essay-writing in Week 6. 


BEN'S NARRATION DOCUMENT


RACHEL'S NARRATION DOCUMENT


Read each day's list carefully before you begin. 



Day 1: 

  1. Saints and Doctors of the Church, Benedict of Nursia, pp. 2-8. Scroll down the document, paying attention to page numbers. Narrate: Tell about the Rule of St. Benedict 

  2. Senior Thesis, read Preface, pp. ix-xi, Introduction, pp. xiii-xiv, Invention, p.1

  3. Dante, Background Lecture Narrate: Tell everything you know about Dante and the Divine Comedy.

  4. Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 1-2 Narrate each chapter.

  5. Psalm 1 Narrate

  6. Ben: Duolingo German, 30 minutes (log progress in your narration doc)

  7. Ben: Continue reading The Edge of Sadness if not finished. Log that you've read in your narration doc, but don't narrate.

  8. Rachel: Continue reading Great Expectations, 30 minutes, if not finished. Log that you've read, but don't narrate.


Day 2: 

  1. Isaiah 1-3, , Narrate each chapter

  2. Senior Thesis: Chapter 1/Find Your Topic: read p. 2, then complete “Questions for Personal Reflection, pp. 3-5

  3. Dante, Inferno, Canto I. (YouTube Audio of John Ciardi's translation, read by John Ciardi) Narrate. 

  4. Essay: “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent.” Narrate. 

  5. Psalm 2 Narrate

  6. Ben: Duolingo German, 30 minutes Log progress in narration doc

  7. Ben: Continue reading The Edge of Sadness if not finished. Log that you've read in your narration doc, but don't narrate.

  8. Rachel: Great Expectations (log, but don't narrate)


Day 3: 

  1. Matthew 1-4. Narrate each chapter. 

  2. Senior Thesis: Reflect further on the questions you answered yesterday in writing. 

    1. Then read the topic list on pp. 6-7. 

    2. Note that you are not limited to these topics, OR that you can choose a sub-topic within any one larger topic (i.e., the development of military strategy as a topic within history, the development of the Church’s thought with regard to the use of reason as a topic within theology and science, etc). 

    3. Begin to brainstorm topics that might be of interest to you. 

    4. Note that you are NOT committing to a topic yet, just thinking. 

  3. Dante, Inferno, Canto II (Audio). Narrate

  4. Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 3-4. Narrate each chapter. 

  5. Psalm 3 Narrate

  6. Ben: Duolingo German, 30 minutes (log in narration doc)

  7. Ben: Continue reading The Edge of Sadness if not finished. Log that you've read in your narration doc, but don't narrate.

  8. Rachel: Great Expectations (log but don't narrate)


Day 4: 

  1. Hebrews 1-3. Narrate each chapter

  2. Senior Thesis: Workshop p. 8. 

    1. Choose two friends to poll with regard to your interests.

    2. You could share the topic list with them to help guide their thoughts 

    3. Have each of those friends write down five things they associate with you:

      1. Talents

      2. Hobbies

      3. Interests

      4. Strengths and passions

      5. Possible future careers they could see you pursuing

    4. Write down on page 8 the suggestions you receive from the friends you poll. 

  3. Dante, Inferno, Canto III. (Audio) Narrate. 

  4. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Narrate.

  5. Psalm 4 Narrate

  6. Ben: Duolingo German, 30 minutes (log in narration doc)

  7. Ben: Continue reading The Edge of Sadness if not finished. Log that you've read in your narration doc, but don't narrate.

  8. Rachel: Great Expectations (log but don't narrate)


  1. Day 5: 

    1. Fides et Ratio, 1-4. Narrate each section

    2. Senior Thesis, p. 9: Continue polling friends, discerning a topic. Jot down at least one provisional idea to begin exploring next week.

    3. John Donne, “Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God.” Narrate

    4. Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 5-6. Narrate each chapter

    5. Psalm 5 Narrate

    6. Ben: Duolingo German, 30 minutes (log in narration doc)

    7. Ben: Continue reading The Edge of Sadness if not finished. Log that you've read in your narration doc, but don't narrate.

    8. Rachel: Great Expectations (log but don't narrate)



Thinking about the future: a Gap Year possibility

Also be thinking, for the sake of college application and other essays: 

*If you had to name a heroic or virtuous person, either an historical figure or a literary character, whom would you name and why? 

*What do you think constitutes a "good education," both in terms of its content and its goals (the person who emerges at the other end is formed and changed – how? – by his or her education? 

*What are the qualities of a good leader? What figures, fictional or historical or in contemporary society, embody those qualities? 

*What experiences have been most significant in forming you as a person? 





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