- What feedback from a peer would you find most useful? What do you want your peers to look for, and what kind of questions do you have for them?
- What do you have to offer that would be of most use to your peers?
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Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011
Respond before class Topic to be covered in class
Paper 2 Peer Workshop
Topic to be covered in class
Ex 6 Workshop
The “Poetry Cover Slam” sounds like it was a hit.
Exercise 6 is another opportunity for you to do something creative in the service of learning.
While the poetry slam asked you to interpret a work, Ex 6 “Creative Critical Presentation,” asks you to be just as creative while analyzing something.
In the past, students have
- performed monologues or short scenes in more than one way (for instance, giving a character a completely different motive… does Katniss know all along that she’s interested in Peeta, or is she genuinely surprised when she realizes how much she knows about him?)
- written or spoofed a song (and brought in a guitar or uploaded a video to YouTube)
- interpretive dance (I’m not kidding — and it really was good!)
- made a science-fair style display board
The project involves
- a written component (2-3 pages, with a Works Cited list for all your outside research),
- a performance component of about 6 minutes
- a discussion/interaction component of about 2 minutes
- an email follow-up
- attentive participation in projects given by your peers
Print and bring to class
Paper 2 Draft
The full paper should be 8-10 pages.
For today’s workshop, bring a printout of as much of your paper as you have. The more you bring to class, the more substantial feedback your peers and I can provide.
The full draft is due online by 5pm, Monday, April 25.
Respond before class Study before class
Foster, 26
For this morning’s freewrite,
- choose a passage from Chapter 26,
- choose a passage in The Hunger Games, and
- use the Foster passage to explain your reaction to the Collins passage. (Include brief, integrated quotes from both sources; avoid summary; try to be surprising rather than obviously “correct.”)