Follow these steps to offer feedback to your partner group. Appoint one person to take notes on each of these questions. This group member will email the responses to each question to the group that is being reviewed and to the instructor. Leave your website open on two laptops at Read more…
After much deliberation, I decided on these six prompts. It was tough! My original list was 15 prompts long, but I decided that would be too many options. If you wrote a prompt you were very attached to, but you don’t see in this list, please let me know. We Read more…
Today we selected discussion questions from Piazza to explore in more depth in small groups. Students picked a question, then began to discuss some preliminary answers to that question. Students then selected a clip from YouTube of a scene in Hamlet that is relevant to answering the question posed. Act Read more…
In class, we brainstormed a list of keywords to capture our reading on Beauty and the Beast and our viewing of the 1991 film. I’ve synthesized the results in four keywords below: Impressions: This keyword captures the theme of exterior vs. interior that we see throughout. The townsfolk are impressed with Read more…
Peer Review Guidelines for Paper 1 Instructions: 1. Read the paper in full one time without stopping to ask for clarification. Respond as a reader in the author’s target audience (not as if you were going to grade it). This means that you might: Note where you had to reread Read more…
We discussed the introduction to Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning yesterday. Then, each section formed groups of 4-6 students and drew out a variety of ways to visualize the self-fashioning process, as described by Greenblatt. Here are the results of our experiment – note the heavy featuring of aliens and authority (represented in Read more…