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Wednesday,October 30

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Online Assignment Today! Please check the email (in Blackboard>Announcements that I sent out yesterday). Please have your issue, theme, and historical connection updated on the FYS Intersections Spreadsheet found in the Assignments & Due Dates tab>FYS> scroll all the way down!
  • Today's Goals

  • Midterm Grading

  • Genre Mind mapping

  • Discovery Log Workshop 

  • Homework

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Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes​

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

  • Demonstrate control of situation-appropriate conventions of writing

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Habit(s) of Mind

  • Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to grapple with challenging ideas, texts, processes, or projects.

  • Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to connect choices they have made in texts to audiences and purposes for which texts are intended

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Key Terms

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

  • Genre and genre conventions

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Warm Up 

Be sure that you have completed the Warm Up from Monday's class plan!

Work on the following: 

Topic: I am studying ________

Question: because I want to find out what/why/how _______

Significance: in order to help my reader understand _________. 

Genre Mind Mapping 

We are going to be mapping out the Intersections project. 

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Use this handout to map out some of the ideas. We will walk through this as a class. Be sure to keep this and revise/refer to it as you see fit! 

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When you are done drafting the mind map, update your information on the Intersections spreadsheet. This can be found by going to the Assignments & Due Dates tab>FYS button> scroll down to  the Spreadsheet: History Intersections button.

 

Please have this submitted by 5pm on Thursday so that I can group you all by Friday's class. If you dont update your information, you will be randomly put into a group with all the other people who failed to update their information...

Homework

A) This Week...

  • Discovery Log #6 (due this Sunday by midnight 11.3)

  • Portfolio Practice #5 (due this Sunday by midnight 11.3)​

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B) Be sure to take a look at the material I have updated under the tab "Assignments & Due Dates" 

  • FYS 

  • Intersections: Situations & Genres

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C) Please email me or come by and see me if you have any questions/concerns!

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