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The purpose of our class period today is to understand our course syllabus,
become familiar with important course concepts, and begin to practice deep
reading strategies using digital tools of writing.
Activity 2: Discuss Course Syllabus and Class Projects (about 20-25 minutes)
Group Activity: Work in groups of 4. Introduce yourselves. Select a discussion
moderator to ensure fair representation and equal participation. Also choose a notetaker who will maintain a record of the group discussion and reporter (the reporter will
share the highpoints of the discussion, questions posed by the group with the rest of this
document to note down your questions about any aspect of our course.
Whole-Class Discussion
Debarati Dutta
Activity Plan: 29 August 2016
Activity 3: Discuss Homework for Next Day of Class/Wrap-Up (last 5-8 minutes of
class)
Homework for 31 August (Wednesday)
Preparatory Work
If you have signed up late, were not present on the first day of class, or
have not yet gotten to it, please do all of the following before you return
to class on Wednesday
1. Purchase a lined composition book
2. Download a free PDF editor/reader such as Adobe
Acrobat Reader to edit and comment on PDF files (FYI, most
Mac laptops come with this). If you do not have this
editor/reader, it can be downloaded for free from this site.
Please download this reader before you begin doing your
homework for the next day.
3. Choose an image that you think will be appropriate as
your profile picture on our course Moodle. Bring an electronic
copy of this image to class on Monday.
4. Read our course syllabus, policies, and glossary. To
view and download these documents, view our Syllabus folder
in our shared Google Drive.
Reading
Reading and
Writing
Debarati Dutta
Activity Plan: 29 August 2016
Read Studio Project 2: What Writing Is, What Writing Does. This
project is item # 3 in our Online Studio Projects folder in our shared
Google Drive. This studio project is due before 5 pm on 3 September
(Saturday).
I will discuss the project at length during our class period on
Wednesday and show you how to use our class forum on Moodle. To
help our discussion move quickly, please be familiar with the project so
that we can use class time to answer any questions you have.