Step ONE:

Go on the following link -
www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html

Step TWO:
Read the essay by Robert Coover

Step THREE:
Offer your commentary on the argument he presents. Use the comments on the post to post your commentary

Step ONE:
Click on http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/

Step TWO:
Check the 'timeline' and 'contents' page (focus on hypertext terminology)

Step THREE:
Browse around the 'contents' page and gather information about, writing and reading electronic hypertexts.

Step FOUR:
Under 'rethinking the book' gather thoughts on: the novel, realism and the realist novel, modernism and the moderinist novel, postmodernism and the post-modern novel, the new novel, hypertext, intertextuality.

Step FIVE:
Keep notes to present in class.
And keep awareness to learn of the other homework.

Links to check out as you are reading the novel:

http://www.vonnegut.com/

http://www.vonnegutweb.com/