Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up

  • Reading Response Peer Review​

• Reading Discussion

• Discovery Log #1 Workshop

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Identify how their views of writing have changed as a result of the work they have done in the course

• Demonstrate their ability to locate, read, evaluate, select and use (integrate) effectively information from appropriate sources with their own ideas

Habits of Mind

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize their own role in learning.

• Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to reflect on the texts that they have produced in a variety of contexts.

Key Terms

• Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

In your groups, each person should share their reading response with another group member (so that each member has a unique response that is not their own). You can send a link to your document directly to the student, or you can access each other's Reading Responses through the Blackboard Discussion Forum links you should have posted on Monday. Read your group member's response and consider the following questions:

1.  Where does the student answer the prompt questions?

2. Where does the student explain the main idea of the text?

3. Where does the student offer examples to support their explanation?

4. Are these examples appropriate for the audience?

5. Where does the student offer textual evidence for their interpretation of the text's main idea?

6. Where does the student explain how their textual evidence supports their interpretation?

7. What can the student write in order to fulfill the above requirements?

After you read their work while thinking about these questions, offer the student 2-3 pieces of feedback by replying to their thread in Blackboard. In the subject line, type "Reading Response #1 PR." Your feedback should be specific and actionable.

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Your feedback should include a "because clause," meaning you should always offer a clear reason for your suggestions/feedback. Feedback should focus on "higher-order" issues such as structure, developing examples, making connections to prior knowledge, meeting the requirements of a standard response as is broken down by the 7 questions above.

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Your feedback should help the author expand and explain their attempts to make meaning from the texts. Avoid commenting on grammar and spelling, and avoid non-actionable comments like "make this clearer," or "This is good/bad," etc.

 

Reading Discussion

Since last class you should have read Threshold Concept 2.0 from Naming What We Know and "Information Has Value" from the Framework for Information Literacy.

 

Group 1: NWWK 2.0, first paragraph on page 35

Group 2: NWWK 2.0, paragraph beginning bottom of pg 35 and the first full paragraph on pg 36

Group 3: NWWK 2.0, paragraph beginning on middle of pg 36

Group 4: NWWK 2.0, last two paragraphs

Group 5: Framework for Information Literacy, "Information Has Value" bolded text and description

Group 6: Framework for Information Literacy, "Information Has Value" Knowledge Practices and Dispositions

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Each group needs to discuss the importance of their assigned sections. Pick at least one quote to discuss with the class. Add group notes to the Google running document (kept by your scribe)

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Discovery Log #2

We will begin discussing your Intersections: Situations and Genres project in the next week or so. This project will relate to the research you will now begin doing on the topic that you outlined in Discovery Log #1.

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Begin your second Discovery Log by doing some general research on the topic you are interested in. You can use a simple Google search to do this. Be sure to create a question(s) before you begin searching, and keep track of your research activities using the format provided on the Discovery Log description.

 

Homework

Read:

Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 3.0 

Bickmore's Genre in the Wild, Intro and "What is a Genre"

Write:

Introductory Letter draft due 9/9

Work on your Discovery Log #2 - due 9/9

Reading Response #2 over Week 1 readings is due Sunday, 9/9

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