This quarter seems to be going so quickly! I gave my students their prompt today (which, I admit, I wrote on the fly this morning). I had planned on having them do a similar essay 1 to last quarter's, but the class dynamic isn't the same. These students are working a lot closer with the text in their journals (a lot sooner than last quarters' students were, anyways), and I wanted to give them an assignment that would encourage that. They've been discussing how to be both generous and assertive in class, and today, in preparation for their using quotes in their paper, we applied being generous and assertive to making "quote sandwiches" in student papers.
I'm excited for their papers to start. Rough drafts are due on Tuesday, we'll hold workshop, and then papers will be due the following Tuesday. Their assignment, then, is to work closely with a section of Schlosser that we haven't read in class, and examine what sort of sources he uses, and how he uses them. Is he both generous and assertive with the texts? What are the implications being made if he is? If he isn't?
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