I hope you are enjoying Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment this summer! There's not a written assignment over the vacation, but you should read and annotate well enough that you can find passages and track the sequence of events. We are using the Oliver Ready translation only, and I think every student has connected with me to receive the book. If you somehow missed me, or you should feel free to order it yourself.
Here is the intro handout I gave out, along with this accompanying screencast. Here are the study questions I handed out in class. Reading along with the study questions in hand will guide your reading in a way that's still pretty open. I strongly recommend you use the study questions rather than a commercial summary that will tell you what to think and otherwise overly influence your interpretations. You will probably want to read Ready's introduction to the text after you have finished the novel, as the intro contains spoilers. Finally, here is a screencast about the Russian names. I discussed this briefly, but this refresher is helpful. I hope you love and admire this strange and insightful look at human psychology, the power of ideology, and redemption. Thursday 7 September: Welcome; policy sheet distributed; poem due; group practice and a little C&P discussion; HW: passage-finding assignments Friday 8 September: No class; welcome assembly Monday 11 September: C&P reading quiz (20 min); passage Harkness discussion Comments are closed.
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