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Monday, October 21

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Intersections: Situations & Genres Project

  • Homework

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Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes​

  • Demonstrate their ability to use their analyses of rhetorical situations to identify options and to make appropriate choices that will enable them to use writing to achieve specific purposes,

  • Demonstrate their ability to collaborate effectively as members of diverse teams / groups of writers

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Habits of Mind

  • Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to find meanings new to them or build on existing meanings as a result of new connections

  • Creativity is fostered when writers are encouraged to take risks by exploring questions, topics, and ideas that are new to them

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Key Terms

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

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

Warm Up

On your running document for Warm Up's, respond to the following:

  • What does is meant to have courage? 

  • What does it mean to have conviction?

Intersections: Situations & Genres

Part A

Let's watch a short video...

(stop at 2:03)

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The work you do is significant to understanding Who We Are as Americans and as Citizens of our Communities. We owe each other the truth, verifiable facts and a different perspective. 

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Adapted from Amanda Marquez.

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The work you put out in the world, you should be proud of. It represents your identities and ideologies and shows who you are as a person. 

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If you think, "this class is pointless, this class is boring/meaningless." Then it will be just that. But if you change the way you approach this work and the work you do as a student in a positive way, you change the outcome. 

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Part B

In your reading groups, let's break down what we are researching by doing a mind map. 

  • In the middle, write out a change you think you could advocate for or the topic you are researching so far. 

  • Pass the paper in the direction I give... Every person needs to comment on each mind map. 

  • Possible areas to comment on (use Google if you need to): 

    • What are some possible audiences in this field? Provide a "because" clause.​​

    • What are some possible types of writing these audiences encounter? Provide a "because" clause.

    • Based on what the writer is identifying as a need for change, what are some ideas of what the they can try to achieve? (change accomplishes something...)

    • If the writer is not identifying a need for change yet, can you provide ideas for them?

    • What are some realistic ways the writer can impact change in this topic?

  • Keep passing around the mind maps and commenting on each. Look at what others have said and think how you can build on what other's have said. 

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Think: “I want readers//listeners, viewers to DO __________: because___________.

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KEEP THESE MIND MAPS! We will be adding to these on Friday!

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Before we leave, lets watch one more video...

Homework

A) ​Read (for Wednesday, October 23rd)

  • Naming What We Know

    • Writing is Linked to Identity (p. 50)

  • Framework for Information Literacy

    • Research as Inquiry (p. 7)​

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B) Due Sunday, October 27th

  • Reading Response #3

  • Discovery Log #5

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C) 

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C) If you need help, please come and see me!

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