February 12, 2007
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Revisions to make:
> The Scavenger Hunt needs more direction & details to it. Students should probably be asked to identify the genre they found as well as its purpose and audience, etc. I think next semester, I will have students find less genres (10? instead of 20) but then write up a small blurb about each genre they found. I think that’ll be easier to grade as well as get them thinking beyond just what a document looks like. Going from: ”Oh, this is a letter,” to “This letter’s purpose is to persuade me to sign up for their credit card.”
> I think the AAY Packet needs to specifically state its requirements. Students were placing genres from their AAY Packets in their Scavenger Hunt findings, and that just causes chaos grading-wise. Not fun to get students coming and saying that they had everything in one folder, etc. The details need to be more organized, so students are forced to be as well. Placing some statement on the sheet about using, say, the Top Ten lists for both the Scavenger Hunt and the AAY Packet is fine, but one has to have two copies then. Or perhaps since everything in the AAY Packet is personal, the Scavenger Hunt items have to be things not created by them?? Hmm. I’ll have to think on that.{ This week, 105ers are working on Project 5: Instructions & Description of a Mechanism… 110ers will start reading Rule of the Bone as well as be introduced to Paper 2′s Profile. They have to read the first one hundred pages for Friday and create their own obituary too. Both classes will have opportunities for bonus points on Wednesday since our last presidential candidate comes to campus. The 110 students will be asked to write a profile on the candidate whereas the 105ers will just be asked to respond. As for the online 120 class, they handed in a paper last week just like the 110ers, so they are starting on a Paper 2 as well… and I think Unit 6 has them looking more at citations. }
