Calendar

Document Actions
  • LTI Export
  • Content View
  • Bookmarks
Class
Topic
Assignment
1
Overview. A learning theory. "Instances of US Forces…"
Syllabus journal, buy Kinzer, copy $, preview "Study Template"
2
Discuss Syllabus journal entries. Regime Change Prior Knowledge Inventory: get a record of your baseline knowledge. Preview "Study Template"
PK-Critical thinking BrainDump: "Why are we in Iraq and Afghanistan?" Revisit & Observe-React Journal "Instances". Choose 3 search terms from the "CAPS Search Terms Table" to make a CAPS Prior Knowledge Inventory.
3
Syllabus QUIZ; Why fight? Discuss & Vote. CAPS PK Synthesis 
Select min. 4 "Regime Change Search Terms" search Youtube & any quotation websites. Use "study template" to record findings, bring to class. 
4 
Background Investigations Roundtables: new Search Terms, learning summaries & classification tables. Continent Map Quiz
Revise & Supplement your Regime Change and CAPS PK inventories, include a PK summary. 
 5
Intro to author/text; Roundtable background research. Hand in Revised PK Inventory 
Study for ESSAY INSTRUCTION Quiz. Read Kinzer 14. 
 6
LAB Preview Kinzer. Argument-Evidence Journal  
 Argument-Evidence Journal Ch. 14 (in-class & HW)
 7
Journals Ch.14 (in-class & HW) Brecht "Questions from a Worker Who Reads" Quiz ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS 
Essay Instruction Journal. Preview K. Ch.9 or 4
8 
LAB. Kinzer analysis. Instructions Journal due. 
Journals K9&4 
 9
Ch.9 & 4 & discussion 
Midterm & Catch up 
 10
 Essay Planning Strategies
Essay Rough Draft # 1 Due Mon. 10am 
 11
 Essay Whisper-Shout & Iceberging; Writing our own "Question from poems"
Journal: Ch.10 Prep Attribution Quiz.
 12
Conferences 
 
 13
 Holiday (Attribution Quiz-electronic)
Peer Feedback Notes. Essay.
 14
Peer Feedback Notes. "Magical Thinking" 
Draft #2. Due Thurs. 
 15
Draft #2 Due. CIA Factbook. Intro Final Exam Roundtable 
Prep Final Exam Roundtable.
 16
Conferences, Healey search & Team Editting  
Holiday Prep: Reader's Choice Roundtable. Construct Essay based on bibliography (from Kinzer) and subject search terms for 11.30 
 17
Info Literacy with Janet (meet in CLI) 
 
 18
 Reader's Choice Roundtable
reread your Revised PK Inventories & CT Reflection (Why we fight) from weeks I-III compare, systhesize the new info into your original draft (revise content & add min. 3 new paragraphs). Email the text to me in the message-no attachments please! 
 19
Film #2 "Hijacking Catastrophe" (68 min). Roundtable Revised reflections. Works Cited Due. Course Evals; 
 
 20
Essay Due; Film Discussion. Final prep. 
 

 

 

Copyright ©2010 Erin M O'Brien, Ed.M.

Copyright 2014, Erin M OBrien. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License