Calendar

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.

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