Class Agenda 3.19

1. Quiz: What is a claim? (5 minutes)

2. Announcements
Reading for Thursday
    To Download it as PDF: Click on downward arrow underneath "File" on top left. Or click "File" and then "Download."
    Note: this reading could be your second, "academic source" for your first essay.
Peer Review Thursday 
Make sure blogs reach 250 words
Bring in ideas from other cluster classes

3. Twitter: favorite 2, reply to 2, ReTweet 2. (5-7 minutes)

4. Blog roll: Responding to student claims. (40 minutes)

Your goal for this exercise to respond to a student claim made in a blog. It can be any claim.

You will click on your name below and read the blog of another student in the class. You will then write a 5-7 response to their blog. Your response will address a claim that the student makes. To address the claim, you will:

a. Identify the purpose of your response in your first sentence (explain to your audience why you're writing).

b. Quote, cite, and paraphrase the student correctly (we can review the instructions for citing a blog in previous blog agendas. There are links provided to you, as well as directions in previous course blogs). If there is no claim made by the student, focus on a claim included in their blog (presumably, Tannenbaum).

Sample quote sandwich /quote framing / citation

Rules for citing websites and other sources

c. After paraphrasing the student's claim, agree with it, disagree with it, or agree/disagree with a qualification (that is, say what aspect your agree/disagree with, and what aspect you do/don't). Follow the "quote sandwich" model.

d. Your response should give general feedback on whether or not the student provided enough evidence to support their claim.

e. If you think the student can use their claim, or their blog, in their first essay, you should say so - and say why.

f. in general: blogs need to be 250 words to achieve full credit. 

Click on your name to find the blog you're responding to. I will "feature" 6-7 student blogs each week.

Adam
Akeem
Denni
Diana
Eddie
Jairo
Jasmine
Joel
John
Jonathan
Leonore
Leticia
Nadira
Nayara
Nico
Nicole
Paul
Rachel
Sean
Stefan

5.  When this task is completed, work on the draft of the essay due for Thursday. I will come around and provide feedback. (60 minutes)