Week 3: Monday, September 8th Friday, September 12th
Week 3, September 8
- 10*: Overview
*Monday, September 6 is Labor
Day; there are no university classes.
Goals for this Week |
- Help students
understand the importance of reasons and evidence (textual,
personal experience, analysis) in a response.
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- Connect
development of responses (through reasons and evidence that
support the specific response types) to the overall portfolio
goals and make connections between this portfolio and the larger
course goals.
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- Revisit the etiquette of workshopping.
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- Introduce
the second and third types of response - interpreting/reflecting
and analyzing the text.
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- Assign
Brooks' and Krugman's articles.
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- Introduce
and discuss the concepts of assumptions and implications. Connect
these concepts to the use of reasons and evidence in an interpretive
response.
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- Introduce
and discuss development of criteria and making judgments about
the effectiveness of texts using sufficient reasons and evidence
in support of a claim.
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- Start building a set of debatable issues drawn
from newspaper clippings.
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Activities for this
Week |
Detailed lesson
plans are available for the first four weeks of the course. Beginning
in the third week you will be encouraged to take over the writing
(or rewriting) of all introductions, conclusions, and transitions.
You will also notice more activity choices in the third, fourth
and fifth weeks. Beginning in the sixth week, you will be
expected to choose activities from a set of suggested activities
and/or develop your own activities that will help you and your students
achieve the course goals for a specific week. |