Day 9: Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Agenda:
- Return Essay 1
- Review Essay Rubric Narrative
- Complete Reflection on Essay 1: download here
Homework:
- Complete Reflection on Essay 1
- Take a picture(s) of your Personal Timeline
Day 8: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Agenda:
- Reflection on Research and Teaching Process- KWL + Reflection
- Writing Project: Personal Timeline: Education Journey
Homework:
- Finish Reflection: Personal Timeline: Education Journey
Day 7: Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Agenda:
- Socratic Seminar using vocabulary development strategy: personal dictionary
- Introduction to Research- KWL + Reading Project
Homework:
- Complete KWL + Reading Project
Day 6: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Agenda:
- Peer Response Session 1
- Peer Response Reflection
Homework:
- Review Peers' Notes and Revise: Reflection Journal
Day 5: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Agenda:
- The Writing Process: Lecture
- Drafting
- Paragraph development workshop
Homework:
- Finish drafting essay
Day 4: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Agenda:
- Review syllabus expectations
- Reflection and discussion about the Interview
- Whose voices have been included?
- What surprised you?
- What did you learn about that particular person?
- Reflection #3: download here
- Discussion
- Introduce Strategy: Vocabulary Self-Selection- Personal Dictionary
Homework:
- Complete Personal Dictionary by Wednesday, October 22, 2014
- Download it here
Day 3: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Agenda:
- Peer Response Workshop 1: download here
- Purpose
- Revise- to see again
- Peer Response Pairs
- Reflection 3
Homework:
- Revise your interview and organize all assignments in your folders
- Organize your binder for English 1S/English 242A (by Wednesday)
- Suggested Sections:
- English 1S: Class notes, Additional Readings, Reading and Writing Journals, Writing and Reading Project Prompts, Essay Prompts, Returned Assignments, Sentence Combining
- English 242A (this can be a section in your English 1S binder if you want to have only one)
- Syllabus
- Reflections
- Notes
- Additional Readings
Day 2: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Agenda:
- Reflection 2: Focus on Questioning for Interview
- Download document here
- Example Interview
- Student volunteer?
- Question: What are the consequences of students feeling as though they cannot express themselves or their ideas in a classroom setting?
- Focus on interviewee's experience/background as rationale for question
- Pair Interview Practice:
- Use questions generated from Reflection 2 to interview your partner
- Return to Reflection 2 and write about what you learned from the process
- Class Discussion
- Share out- challenges in interview/possible solutions
Homework:
- Print up Reflection 2 (bring by next Wednesday)
- Read over and annotate class syllabus (by Wednesday)
- Organize your binder for English 1S/English 242A (by Wednesday)
- Suggested Sections:
- English 1S: Class notes, Additional Readings, Reading and Writing Journals, Writing and Reading Project Prompts, Essay Prompts, Returned Assignments, Sentence Combining
- English 242A (this can be a section in your English 1S binder if you want to have only one)
- Syllabus
- Reflections
- Notes
- Additional Readings
- Interview Plan- Create a plan: (before your interview)
- Who will you interview?
- How will you contact him/her?
- When will you try to make this interview happen?
- How will you record it?
- Generate 5 questions: You can use the questions from Reflection 2 (before your interview)
- You might change these as you start your interview, but try to have 5 solid questions as the starting point.