For Wednesday

I've been checking out your posts. So far, so good. Most of you seem to have little difficulty, so hats off! You're blogging.

For Wednesday, I have several activities in store. If the weather permits, we might reconnoiter some potential garden locales. If at all possible, do not wear your Sunday best. You might get dirt on your hands, or at least your shoes (or at the bare minimum, you'll have to look at some dirt). You need to bring a notebook. I recommend purchasing a small notepad exclusively for this class--something you can fit in your pocket and produce on the spot to take note of such important things as soil type, available sunlight, future water conditions, relative safety of spot, potential plant varieties most suitable, etc. If the weather doesn't cooperate, we'll start germinating some seeds. I'll bring all the necessary fixings; you'll just have to care for them, see that they get sunlight and an occasional encouraging word to reassure them that growing is the thing they want to do. We'll also go over note-taking. I'm thinking of dialogic (or dialectical) notes--notes about notes! We'll discuss in class.

In the meantime, get your rhetorical precis posted if you haven't all ready.

Catch you later.