Week 2: class culture and some previews
Happy Monday! The Chiefs and the '9ers headed to the Superb Owls event. Puppy Bowl never disappoints.
Today, we will look at these resources, so that you are more confident about where we are going-->UPDATED LINKS 10:45 AM
- These two slide sets
- Set 2: Audience Analysis by Relationships (commentary on Set 1 frame we looked at last week)
- Set 3: Booth's two Triangles
- A visit to Eli Review (you DID watch the short video, right?) where I will show you selected pages from last semester. My goal here is to show you that in the Eli Review Writing Prompt, I gather and link the teaching resources you will need to complete that assignment. Strategic redundancy is an audience-friendly writing technique that you can imitate.
- What is a mentor text and why should you care?
- Think example. Students always request writing examples, especially exemplars.
- Look at the whole via the frame of audience-centered work. Then,
- Look at the writing craft choices that make this test work. Note them and imitate selected ones for your work.
- DO NOT COPY THE MENTOR TEXT WHOLE CLOTH.
- How many assignments this semester? Three assignments each with several required draft/peer revision iterations. Within these three assignment processes, we will learn
- cognitive and critical thinking frames, as well as
- meta discourse
- counting out
- strategic redundancy
- definition work before major content and within major content
- curated hypertext links
- cognitive wedge
- writing craft choices like
- voice
- paragraph sizing
- transitions between paragraphs
- topic sentence strategies
- colon v. semi colon
- AND MORE, including how to cite properly for each context. Hint: referral links are a type of semi-formation citation. I use links in this teaching platform, for your convenience to GIVE CREDIT. Pusheen is an example.
- cognitive and critical thinking frames, as well as
Knitting up from last week. Here is my favorite Science Pusheen just now. (Is a large image and you cick to see entirely WHEN you wish. FIXED on Friday,!Most on their phones will wait until a desktop moment.)
Kelly Stanford, Illustrator. Sometimes writing efforts, though good, are rejected! :(Previewing Wednesday? We will look at the five canons in this slide set from my website section "Visual Learning"--> "Slides."
TASK: we need a groupMe!
Mea culpa comment: we will look at the hobbled two search engines in the navigate bar and note that AI is changing search engines at lightning pace.
Marybeth Shea
Tis Wednesday!
We will loop back briefly to repeat some key critical thinking ideas from the slide sets. Triangles are your friends.
We will look at the five canons of Aristotle (optional link to short homeschooling web exhibit), combined with writing process models. This eight-slide set links to a Padlet, which I would like you to look at.
Pause: three short craft lessons in the two-sentence paragraph just above-->
curated links are reader friendly (hypertext is fabulous tool)
spelling numbers out that are single digits (one-through-nine; 10!)
hyphens can help clarify what is being modifiedeight-slide set
fast-sailing ship or fast sailing ship
Bonus! We will look together at a Google search about hyphenation and ships!
Bonus 2! We will look at my Google search widget on the SS class journal
Pause: one ethos question, which is a critical thinking frame; Why did Mb send us to a k-12 home schooling site?
Now, on to the cognitive wedge (also a triangle). That link takes you to a Google doc, with photo-jpgs from me to teach online. I used to draw cognitive wedges on white board and before that? Chalk boards, some green and others black. This idea, of the wedge, is mine. Should patent or copyright this. Hah.
Friday preview: Inquiry question for you. What do doll houses have to do with thinking through true crime complexity. Answer to be posted on Friday morning. Class is NOT mandatory but I do want you to read the post and think. Think. I will be at the class link for those who have questions. I can also start to work my way through the ADA letters. Make sure that you send those to me through the Support Office ASAP.
Now, history video for fun. What is the Cutty Sark (UK Greenwhich Museum) (and I do not mean whisky whiskey, which one is correct?). This short video has NO voice over but does use captioning. All videos can be thought of as a text, with this type really embodying that idea. Hint: closed captions help videos be more accessible.
Class recessional: Sound is on. At 53 seconds, a cutty sark reference is made. One of the best bass lines, ever, right?
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday! I will be avaialbe for questions or even hello -->
- 9-9:50
- 11-11:50.
From Wednesday, am pulling forward this Padlet (educational web presentation tool) about writing process models. Preview below, which when clicked, takes you to the larger view. Padlets are best on laptop/desktops where the long horizonal access helps you see detail. One of the visuals should look familiar to you as a classroom chart from about grade two through high school. Indeed, the "splash" image shows a clip of that clasic wall chart. I want you to look at the models that show recursivity. Writing requres recusive work to write, check, think, share, to revise into a better document suited to audience context and purpose.
You do not need to click into the activities. You may, if you wish, think about them.
Now to the inquiry question: what do dollhouses have to do with crime solving. This Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) hosts this web exhibit about Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell" models. This Atlas Obscura article host many large images showing the level of detail in these crime scene recreations. Generally, her scale is 1/12, which is the standard for most dollhouses.
What is the Baltimore connection? The physical objects -- dioramas, room scenes, models, etc. -- are now housed in the Baltimore Medical Examiner Office. The public cannot typically visit though some tours are possible. Here is a Flickr set of of 40 photographs that some might enjoy. Here is one, where the question would be did she fall or was she pushed?
What is the point? I try to show visualization techniques, especially on Fridays. I hope you will enjoy, even though this one is a bit macabre.
For Monday? We will start thinking about memo one and the content area of rain gardens, a type of low impact development pioneered in Prince George's County and at the University of Maryland. As you walk around campus you could notice the many marked and even unmarked rain gardens we enjoy.
Crtical thinking? Perhaps the diaramas of death can help you think about the five canons of
- Invention building the scene by researching details
- Arrangement arranging objects according to the information that help detectives
- Style adapting 1/12 dollhouse techinquest (odd charm is created!)
- Memory TBD Monday briefly
- Delivery a nutshell of the act