Introduction - Reading Assignment for Week 2

In past years, my student teaching partners and I have prepared written materials to help students in our sections through the year. They tended to make up a lot of reading, and we gave them to students all at once. The result: students did not read them. I understand, you already have much reading to do.

This little blog is an experiment to deliver stuff in more digestible chunks. Here's how it will work: I will post on this blog between two and four times per week. Each post will be three paragraphs or so and relate to a topic or project on which you are currently working. I'll alert you to the posts (you can also set up an RSS feed). You will read them as they come out... six to twelve paragraphs per week in small batches does not sound too bad. The previous posts will remain here on the blog, too, so you can search for material I've previously published. (Another problem in previous years was that students misplaced the materials we provided them.) Not sure whether this will work better than our old approach, but the only way to tell is to try it.

Readings for Class Two: Clary/Lysaght, Ch. 2 (pp. 11-18); Ch. 3 (pp. 19-30); Ch. 4 (pp. 31-48); and Berring, Ch. 10 (pp. 307-326). My advice: I think the following passages in Clary/Lysaght are most important for this week's exercise. Focus some attention on them.

1. Page 12, first two paragraphs on the page, emphasizing the importance of facts.
2. Page 16, providing some tips for gathering facts.
3. Page 29, bottom box "Working with Cases," giving some thoughts about how to use cases in general.
4. Bottom of 38 through 47: Please work through the Professional Real Estate Investors example, as it models much of what you need to do with this week's assignment.

-Brian