Reflection on Second Meeting
Today in class we started out in D-205 then moved into the A-building. We went outside for a warm up exercise where we tossed the planet between us as we shared our names.
In class we reviewed summarizing and annotating using Anne Lamott's essay. Students then teamed up and wrote summaries of assigned paragraphs. Next week will will continue summarizing. This week's homework assignment from They Say looks at summarizing. We talked about the stylistic similarities between Mortimer Adler's essay on annotating --"How to Mark a Book" and Lamott's.
About 6-7 students completed their essay assignments. I made four writing cohorts who will all read each student essay and then respond with comments (3-4).
1. Before reading your peer's essay see Rules pp. 38 (guidelines for peer reviewers) and pp. 71 and 83.
2. Choose 3-4 areas to comment on. Note what is strong and note where you are not clear what the writer means and state your question. If you have a solution to the problem, you can offer a resource. (See Rules Matt Watson's classmates' comments pp. 43-44. The comments do not have to be long to be effective. Again note the comments Matt's classmates make.
Reading Log's for Rubin
Other homework is reading. I mentioned last week that you will keep reading logs for THP book. Read Rules pp. 76-79; 83.
I suggest students also keep a list of vocabulary words they needed to look up in a dictionary or references Rubin uses which are not clear.
In-class chapter presentations should be fun. We will discuss the first three chapters and introduction next week.
Lastly, Students have assignments in They Say, I Say.
Handouts
I gave students handouts on Thesis Sentences. One is a chapter from a book, Writing with a Thesis. We will review this next week.
In class we reviewed summarizing and annotating using Anne Lamott's essay. Students then teamed up and wrote summaries of assigned paragraphs. Next week will will continue summarizing. This week's homework assignment from They Say looks at summarizing. We talked about the stylistic similarities between Mortimer Adler's essay on annotating --"How to Mark a Book" and Lamott's.
About 6-7 students completed their essay assignments. I made four writing cohorts who will all read each student essay and then respond with comments (3-4).
1. Before reading your peer's essay see Rules pp. 38 (guidelines for peer reviewers) and pp. 71 and 83.
2. Choose 3-4 areas to comment on. Note what is strong and note where you are not clear what the writer means and state your question. If you have a solution to the problem, you can offer a resource. (See Rules Matt Watson's classmates' comments pp. 43-44. The comments do not have to be long to be effective. Again note the comments Matt's classmates make.
Reading Log's for Rubin
Other homework is reading. I mentioned last week that you will keep reading logs for THP book. Read Rules pp. 76-79; 83.
I suggest students also keep a list of vocabulary words they needed to look up in a dictionary or references Rubin uses which are not clear.
In-class chapter presentations should be fun. We will discuss the first three chapters and introduction next week.
Lastly, Students have assignments in They Say, I Say.
Handouts
I gave students handouts on Thesis Sentences. One is a chapter from a book, Writing with a Thesis. We will review this next week.
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