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Contents 1 In-Class Activities: Day 12, October 16th 2 Homework Due 18 October 3 In-Class Activities: Day 13, October 18th 4 Homework Due 23 October

In-Class Activities: Day 12, October 16th

• Magazine and WikiTeam Planning Meetings with Steph
• Blog: how were you affected by Winterson's writing in Art Objects? What kind of knowledge did she need in order to argue her point? (What kinds of research did she have to do?) How does she stimulate your mind? Create a new category: ENG112 Art Objects

• Deeper into grammar: adopt an ESL classmate (so we wind up in trios), then revisit our discussion of

How many different ways can you imagine this title could be written,
with what different inflections of meaning?

Write a list to share with the class.

• Interacting with Texts from the 2006-2007 Student Anthology

1. Each group will be assigned one of the following: Champagne, Grolman, Kim, Kosmowski, Porter, Soitos, Strathearn, Yu
2. Read outloud to each other (one volunteer or rotate paragraphs); listeners read along.
3. Choose a recorder who will post your "report" in their Wordpress blog (category: ENG112 Art Objects), then discuss

• What thoughts/feelings, perceptions, awarenesses or other experiences does this essay elicit in you? List.
• How does the writer achieve these effects upon you (the readers, the audience)? Describe.
• Do you have a clear sense of what text the writer is responding to, which ideas she or he is interacting with? Summarize.
• What strategies do you especially want to borrow and adapt for your own responsive writing? List with examples.

• Time permitting, begin the evaluation of learning, teaching, and curriculum (listed as homework).

Homework Due 18 October

1. Group recorders; post your reports to your own Wordpress blog. Use the newly-created category: ENG112 Art Objects
2. Complete feedback handout. Please write legibly and thoughtfully.
3. Write a draft (as long as possible) engaging a conversation with the ideas in Winterson's Art Objects. What possible ways can you imagine interacting with ("talking back to" or "talking with") the ideas raised by this text?
4. Bring two hard copies to class.

In-Class Activities: Day 13, October 18th

• Turn in anonymous evaluation handouts (make sure Steph notes your name on her separate list so you earn credit).
• Turn in both copies of your "Interacting with Texts" essay on Art Objects.
• Read the feedback from Steph on the strengths, confusions, and identification of the main narrative thread on the earliest Peer Reviews of the very first drafts of your Introduction narratives. Note: put these in your Self-Reflection Portfolio along with your First Reflection Letter!

Write a response to the comments from Steph: does she give you any ideas about your own skill at giving feedback to other writers? Write this first in a word document (develop the habit!) and save it (you will eventually need to print and include it in in your Reflection Portfolio). Then go to your Wordpress blog, login, create a title for this post and put it in the category learning: ENG112 Paste your writing there and publish it. (Note: this will eventually need to be printed and included in your Reflection Letter Portfolio.)

Now, go to Steph's post, positioning students for written interaction, read and "leave a reply." In your reply, make a connection between what you just wrote about feedback in your weblog and what you just read that Steph is doing with your writing. INCLUDE A LINK TO YOUR POST (in your Weblog)! (Note: this will eventually need to be printed and included in your Reflection Letter Portfolio.)

• Read all the posts about Art Objects.

1. Select the one post that seems closest to the ideas you have written about, and write a reply to that person about the strategies you used in your draft.
2. Select the one post that is most different from the ideas you have written about, and write a reply to that person about the ways that their viewpoint helps you expand your own thinking and strategies concerning interacting with Art Objects.

Small group discussions, organized by primary strategy (reflection, conversation, extension, tempering the position, rhetorical analysis, strength of argument).

Share themes and angles....we get smarter the more we know!

• Distribute grade progress sheets.

Homework Due 23 October

Class next Tuesday is in the Calipari Room in the Learning Commons, basement of the DuBois Library!

1. Provide substantive feedback on your classmate's first draft of "Interacting with Art Objects." Make explicit notes on their paper, and then type a one-page summary that you will turn in (first) to Steph (for credit) and then to your classmate.
2. READ p. 162-163 in The TextWrestling Book. Then, login in to your weblog, and write a comment/reply to your own first post about Art Objects (category: ENG112 Art Objects) ~ make a commitment to the mode of interaction you are going to use and describe how you are going to use this strategy to frame your final response to Winterson (which is due next Thursday, October 25). What is the "established conversation" that you are entering with your response? What is the thinking that you are working through in your own mind about your own knowledge of the issues in this particular conversation?
3. Keep thinking about how to narrow your civic action letter! Who is the best audience, i.e., which population has the most chance of doing a concrete action that leads to change? What else do you need to learn about your topic? What sources are you collected?