Two more thinking assignments... Here's one.

1.  Attendance

2.  Journal-  When was a time when you felt REALLY embarrassed?

3.  Lateral thinking skills... Groups...

4.  HW-  Read Mother Tongue and Fish Cheeks and create 5 thinking skill questions for each for another to answer.

Design

1.   Journal-

Tell me a story about a time when you made a mistake in school and learned something from it…

2.  Attendance.

3.  Thinking Skills, Cont-  Design, Robert Frost….

4.   HW-  Have books by Friday!

5.  HW-  Finish Design Paragraph-  Explain the theme or message.  Please use direct quotes from the poem to support your assertions...

INnterviews, cont.

0.  Attend

1.  Journal-

Provide an example of a time you inferred something to be true based on appearances.  Was it true?  Was it not?  Do facts always tell the truth?

2.  Interviews, cont.

3.  HW-  Trade questions....

4.  HW-  Answer another's questions.

Thinking Skills interviews...

1-   Journal- 

When did you know something to be true, believe it to be true, and then find out you were wrong?  What happened?

2-  Groups and Interviews…

3-  Partner presentations…

4-  HW-- Read the poem and create 10 thinking skill questions for another to answer.

thinking skills...

Journal-

What does what you’ve learned about your mind tell you about the world you perceive? 

Analyze-  To determine the nature and parts.

Compare-  Point out similarities.

Contrast- Point out the differences.

Clarify-  To make clear

Connect-  To place in relation to something else

Distinguish-  Contrasting two things.

Elaborate- To tell more about.

Evaluate-  Determining the worth.

Explain-  To make understandable.

Predict-  To point out a future occurrence.

Summarize- To tell a short version

Infer-  To determine based on evidence.

Identify-  To name or recognize.

Interpret- To put in other words.

Synthesize-  To put together or combine.

HW-  Using 5 different terms, create 5 interview questions for another student in class.

Welcome and Diagonostic-

Welcome!

Welcome to Class!

1.  Class procedures...  Attendance


2.  Journal: (We start with one every day.  At least 1/2 a page.)

When you're taking a new class, it's a good idea to think about what you want out of that class.  What do you want out of this one?

3.  Syllabus and books...  (legal stuff)


4.  Diagnostic Essay... "The Art of Authorship" by  Mark Twain  

      Please read the following essay and respond to these questions:

1.  What is Mark Twain claiming about writing or his writing process?
2.  Do you agree or disagree and why?

  Please be sure to write an essay in response that offers your potential read a beginning, middle and end.


5.  Please finish and print your essay in MLA format.


6.   Homework... Follow this link and complete the "Improving Information Literacy Skills" tutorial provided by our excellent library.  Please print out your final score and bring it to class.

7.  Homework:  Access and print out the last page of the syllabus.  Please return with it signed.