Week_9

Week 9 Plan:

Class Meeting:
Monday, November 13th, 4:00-6:30pm ET on campus and in Zoom.

1. Freewriting: "What events or situations in your life most represent times when you designed your own life? Which ones represent someone or something else designing it for you?"
2. Review of work-in-progress presentations and Theme 2; peer commentary. Review of recent readings.
3. Overview of Theme 3 and small group discussion on Theme 3 questions.
4. Activity on Designing for Life.

REMINDER: Let Jeremy know by email by next week's class meeting if you may be interested to give your Theme 3 presentation during the CCT joint class meeting/open house on evening of Monday, Dec. 11th (7:00-9:00pm ET). No commitment needed yet, just an indication of potential interest (in exchange for reduced requirements for your Written/Creative Product for Theme 3. Audience will be mainly other CCT students and some invited prospective students/applicants.

Assignments Due Next Week:

1. Readings:

a. Read the Foreward + Chapter 1, The Metaphors We Read By: Theoretical Foundations, from Botelho & Rudman, Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors

b. From the list assigned in previous weeks, read another item if you have not read three from this list by now:

• Schank, Every Curriculum Tells a Story
• Northern Illinois University, Instructional Scaffolding to Improve Learning
• Culpan, Scaffolding creativity in arts education
• Trousdale, Interactive Storytelling: Scaffolding Children's Early Narratives
• Lee (2011), Scaffolding systemic and creative thinking: A hybrid learning sciences-decision support approach
• U. of Essex (2017), Voice in literature and creative writing: A resource for teaching A-level English
• Frank & Wall (1996). Finding your writer's voice: A guide to creative fiction (section 1 on "Voice")
• Quinlan & Lin (2016), Finding Your Writer's Voice, Part 2 on "Thinking About Voice"

2. Complete the Peer commentary on Creative/Written Products for Theme 2:

a. Theme 2 products submitted by the Nov. 13th due date will each be assigned to someone else to review. Check your wiki page under the comments for Participation Item P3 to find the one that has been assigned to you. Read the written product, AND listen to the work-in-progress presentation recording (see the Theme 2 page with the presentation visual aids). Consider how the voice of the speaker in the presentation comes through as you read the written product.
b. Develop your peer commentary using the instructions here. Note that the instructions are specific to Theme 2 and involve a different perspective than used during the Theme 1 peer commentary.
c. Submit your review through your personal wiki page dropbox.
Comments on your product will be returned and posted on your wiki page after your reviewer submits them.

3. Add one post with your initial thoughts on possible directions for your Theme 3 Product on the Theme 3 Discussion page. Include any aspects of the theme that particularly interest you, questions that you need to answer for yourself, and any other ideas that seem relevant. Read posts of others during the current and following weeks. Mention any examples of literature that were meaningful to you as a young person (or any that you've come to appreciate now as an adult).

4. Start to explore possible outside readings to help support your Theme 3 project, and start to develop your list of key principles and practices again.

5. Continue with weekly entries in your Literature/Arts Reflection Journal.