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Goals of Portfolio 1 include our desire to: |
1. Develop student awareness of texts as ongoing conversations on issues of importance and relevance to themselves and the world |
2. Develop engagement in the world of both problems and ideas through reading of a major national newspaper and to reassure students of their ability--and indeed their responsibility as adult citizens--to participate in the development of ideas and actions that contribute to improvements and solutions |
3. Develop student awareness of texts as products of particular purposes, audiences, and contexts (rhetorical situations) and develop student ability to read such texts critically |
4. Develop student accountability to ongoing conversations by encouraging them to read widely, to develop positions based on knowledge and critical reading rather than on unchallenged opinions |
5. Teach students the principles of objective, academic summary of texts as a basis for effective responses |
6. Teach students how to focus and develop their own texts (response essays) for educated audiences |
7. Teach students how to make choices about the content and development of their writing based on context |
8. Teach students how to incorporate their own experiences into their responses while also moving outside the self to incorporate knowledge gained from other sources (text evidence) |
9. Teach students how to do deep (global rather than merely local or stylistic) revision of their writing |
10. Introduce students to the conventions associated with citing sources |