1) The document announces several upcoming orientation sessions and meetings for new students, including a doc check and computer lab session for late students, an IECP late kickoff meeting, and an undergraduate application session. 2) The reading class agenda includes discussing a football coaching article, reviewing idioms, going over the syllabus and course details, choosing a short novel, and reviewing vocabulary from the first chapter. 3) Key vocabulary from the first chapter of the novel includes terms like "ferries", "cormorants", and descriptions of the islands' unusual shapes that resemble overlapping or embracing formations.

1. Reading 3
1/9/2013
Nikki Mattson

2. House Keeping
• Collect “All About You”
• Show diagnostic scores

3. Announcements
a. UOGP- New Student DOC CHECK TODAY Boucke 111 2:30-3:30 p.m. NEW STUDENTS
ONLY
•There is another orientation session in the computer lab at 2:30 pm for those who have questions
about either i-Start or eLion and were not able to complete the tasks on their own.
•8 late students visited the UOGP suite and should go to the make-up session in Boucke 111 from
2:30-3:30.
•1. Alnuaimi, Tareq
•2. Alshaer, Saeed
•3. Alderei, Salem
•4. Alnaqbi, Ali
•5. Alsubaie, Abdullah
•6. Alqattan, Yaqube
•7. Mohammed Alqahtani
•8. Weihao Yuan
b. IECP Late Kickoff
should go to Boucke 317 at 1:30 on Friday
c. UOGP-Undergraduate Application Session Monday, January 14 th 1:30 p.m. Boucke 304 for
Levels 3 and 4 only.

4. Agenda
• Collegian + idioms
• Syllabus + course info.
• Short novel preferences
• Chapter 1 vocabulary
• Chapter 1 reading and oral summarizing

5. Collegian + Idioms
• Discuss football coach situation (context)
• Read O’Brien: ‘It’s not about money’
• Orally summarize the article with a partner
(main ideas +important details).
• Discuss your thoughts on the article.
• Find the idiom “drive home a/the point”
• What does this idiom mean?

6. Syllabus + Course Info.
• Highlights
• Contract

7. Short Novel Introduction
• Complete the handout
• Discuss your choices with other students
who are sitting around you

12. Chapter 1 Vocabulary

13. Pg. 11 - …and a few friends in a boat commenced their journey
from Edo on May 16, 1689.

14. Pg. 11 – He has an open, friendly manner and a contagious intensity of
spirit.

15. Pg. 11 – Early in the evening I hire a boat, which slowly navigates the
Sumidagawa River almost to Tokyo Bay…

16. Pg. 12 – Many people arrive at Matsushima on ferries.

17. The ferries sail past Niwo Island, whose shape resembles a
submarine…

18. Pg. 12 - …some are piled double on each other, or even triple, and
some are divided at one end and overlapping at the other.

19. Pg. 12 – Some bear others on their backs; some seem to embrace them,
as if caressing their offspring…

20. Pg. 12 – Basically, about 800 years ago a woman tried to flee
from a powerful official with her small child along the cliffs.

21. Pg. 13 – Cormorants are birds that can be trained to dive and catch fish,
which the fisherman retrieve by reaching into the cormorant’s throats.

22. pg. 13 – He’s like a quirky philosopher tour guide…

23. Audio + Oral Summarizing

24. HW
• Purchase textbooks