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Wednesday, February 13

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up 

  • Portfolio Practice Samples

  • Meme Essays

  • Homework

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Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes

  • TW 1: Integrate different viewpoints as a member of a team.

  • PR 1: Evaluate choices and actions, and relate consequences to decision making.

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Habits of Mind

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

  • Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to act on the understanding that learning is shared among the writer and others—students, instructors, and the institution, as well as those engaged in the questions and/or fields in which the writer is interested.

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Key Terms

  • Genre and genre conventions

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

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Warm Up

The Civil War had resolved the nation’s greatest racial question, that of slavery. However, Americans in the second half of the 19th century continued to deal with the questions about the role of race and the relationships between different races and ethnic groups in American society. We discussed American issues of race and ethnicity after the war in the South, in Northern cities, in the West, on the Great Plains, and also while Americans were abroad. In which of these areas do you think American ideas about race had the most effect upon the development of the nation? In your answer be sure to discuss race relations in at least three of the regions listed above.

Workshop

In order to review the first readings from our Naming What We Know text, we will create meme essays!

For an example of a meme essay, click here. 

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https://memegenerator.net/

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Follow the following steps:

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Step 1:  We need at least 5 groups to work on this project.

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Step 2:  Pick one of the following readings to work on as a group.  Be sure that all team members have read the chapter.  

  • Preface & Metaconcept

  • Threshold Concept 1.0

  • Threshold Concept 2.0

  • Threshold Concept 3.0

  • Threshold Concept 4.0

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Step 3:  Pick at least 3-4 quotes from the chapter that you feel demonstrates the key concepts in that threshold.  

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Step 4: In your group create a minimum of three memes that summarize the  Threshold Concept your group picked. Once you complete your three memes, or as you are creating them, include your 3 Meme Justification. 

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Step 5: Three Meme Justification 

Why did you choose the images you chose (Other than "it's funny", ? Why did you choose the text you chose? Do you think the meme is a good genre for explaining these concepts (why or why not)? Explain. Who do you think the best audience for these meme's would be? 

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We will present these to the class throughout the next week or so...

Homework

A) Read for Monday (2/18)

  • NWWK TC 5.4 (p. 78)

  • NWWK 3.1 (p. 50)

  • "Framework for Information Literacy" Research as Inquiry (p. 7)

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B) Looking Ahead:

  • Reading Response #5 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Discovery Log #5 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Portfolio Practice #3 due this Sunday by midnight.

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C) Need help? Come see me!

I have both Writing Center and Office Hour times we can meet. Let me know if you want to come by or how to make an appointment for the Writing Center! 

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