Annotation Studio. In this class, we will make use of a special digital humanities application called Annotation Studio to develop annotations of selected texts, including - Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Sept 12, 17 - David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion -- Sept 24, 26 - Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species -- Oct 17, 22, 24 - Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet -- Nov 14, 19 These texts available in Annotation Studio, which you may access at the following URL: At the prompt for yourhttp:// group at the bottom of the registration interface, you should enter the class identifier code: 21L448 Annotations are reader-generated marginal comments and reading notes on a primary text, developed around the reader's interests or around a set of tags or key terms offered by the instructor. The goal of developing annotations is to enable the class to engage in close readings of the work under consideration, as well as to build up notes for prospective papers. A brief instruction sheet on annotation studio will be distributed during the second class.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Please log on to Annotation Studio to find the reading for this class. The URL is The class identifier code is 21L448. Reading Assignment: Chapters 1-5, 7 As you read the assignment, please contribute a minimum of 3 thoughtful annotations on one or more of the topics below. An annotation comment may be from 3 to 5 sentences long and may be offered in full sentences or fragments, or even illustrations with comments. If you wish, you may tag your annotation with a key word. Please post your annotations no later than noon the day before class. You should read the annotations that have been posted before you come to class and be ready to comment briefly about your own annotations. Here are some possible topics to annotate As you read, find passages that tell us something about what kind of natural world the inhabitants of Wonderland live in. Make an observation about this world. Is it closer to the natural world of Genesis or to Aristotle's natural world? 2. Find examples of rational or irrational thinking in the conversations of Alice with the characters of Wonderland. Offer some comments on these conversations. 3, 4, 5

Your second 5-page paper is due on October 31st and should be 5 typed pages ( words/page). For this assignment, you have two options: (1)a 5-page essay based on one of the topics below, or (2) a 5-page reading journal, (2) selecting from, expanding and revising your annotations thus far in the term. Essay option. The essay topics below are meant to be suggestive. Feel free to modify them or to invent a topic and thesis of your own. Your paper should deal with issues centrally relevant both to one or more texts we've read and to the subject matter of our discussions in class. Reading journal option. If you chose the 5-page reading journal option for your second paper, you may (1) collect a representative sampling of your annotations and assemble them into a series of edited reading notes (full sentences); or (2) select your 5 favorite annotations, and write 5 1-page mini-essays based on them. Please maintain the original sequence of your annotations and provide their dates in parentheses at the end.