One of the blogs I follow, The Journal of Education Controversy blog, has an interesting YouTube on the state of discipline in schools and how special populations are being removed from the school system and into the juvenile detention/prison system: YouTube Video on blog (excerpt) Full Video here (scroll down to 2009) ACLU School-to-Prison Pipeline [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The State of Discipline in Schools & The School-to-Prison Pipeline
Posted in 321 Response on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rafe Esquith: A Brief Critique
Posted in 321 Response on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While my understanding from reading your blog posts and talking with attendees is that Rafe Esquith’s presentation on Monday night was great, I also heard about part of his presentation that troubled me. Apparently, Esquith relates a story about bringing the Hobart Shakespeareans to the Empire State Building, and he leaves the group alone to [...]
End of the Semester Questionnaire
Posted in Class happenings, Writing prompts on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Directions: Copy and paste this questionnaire into a new Word document or blog post. Please answer the following questions as honestly and in as much detail as possible. Your thoughts and suggestions will aid me as I revise the course to teach it again. 1) What was your favorite project? Explain why. 2) What was [...]
How much can I get for this class?
Posted in Links Galore on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read the NYT article.
Rafe Esquith, November 16, 7pm, Braden Auditorium
Posted in Class happenings on November 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rafe Esquith, a noted teacher and author of Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire, will be speaking on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 7 pm in Braden Auditorium. I have class on Monday evening and will be unable to attend, but I am willing to offer a five-blog posting make up (in other words, this [...]
Clarification on Portfolio
Posted in Class happenings, I'll never be able to say this as well in class as I can write it here on the blog. on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I want to clarify a question I’ve been getting about the portfolio. The synthesis revision should be included in the multigenre remix. You can also include earlier versions of either project 1 or project 2 or both, if you feel they are your best work.
Portfolio Evaluation Criteria
Posted in I'll never be able to say this as well in class as I can write it here on the blog. on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When reviewing, examining and assessing a portfolio, specifically a multigenre portfolio including meta-writing, I find it useful to use the following criteria, so I thought I would include some of the questions I ask myself when assessing texts as published products: Conceptual Core: What is at the center of your writing and your portfolio? What [...]
Arrangement Strategies for Portfolios
Posted in Class happenings, I'll never be able to say this as well in class as I can write it here on the blog. on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arrangement is one of the five tradition canons of classical rhetorical training, and it is important to think about once you begin to assemble a body of works. How will this group of texts communicate with each other? While brainstorming, I came up with a number of ways that I think about arranging a body [...]
Notes on Revision
Posted in I'll never be able to say this as well in class as I can write it here on the blog. on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Revision occurs all around us in the world, yet do we really understand it in texts? As you’ll recall, revision can be divided into two main subcategories: local and global. Local Revision Local revision deals with surfaces and appearances. In the world, an example of local revision would be painting a room of your house. [...]
