David Greenberg, “America’s Forgotten Pogroms”

• Reading Journal:
When we think about the term “reading,” we often automatically turn to the mechanics of the act,
the action or skill of reading. However, reading is also about interpreting, shaping experience,
identification, and making meaning.
The goal of your reading journals is to move beyond the mechanics of reading, and instead to
approach the reading for this class in new and creative ways, examining each of our texts in ways
that make the most sense to you.
To do this, students will keep a reading journal which will include at least one entry per module of
assigned reading. Each 500-word entry should be dated and include the title of the reading that
has inspired the response (you can respond to as many or as few of a module’s readings as you
desire). You will use these journal entries to help further our class discussion and help you to think
about the material in complex ways.
Your journal entries can take many forms but shouldn’t just be a summary of what you read—ask
the author questions, collect your favorite quotes from the text, explain something you didn’t
understand and what you did to try and figure it out, tell me what made you think and what made
you angry. Feel free to include sketches, cartoons, memes, or anything that helps you to make sense
of the readings.

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