S26: Monday
Discussion of chapter 1 from The Art of Community (PDF).
Our specific discussion will center on next steps for Third Thursday work. Included is the body of the email sent last week:
Would you please humor me and read chapter 1 of this book for Monday?
My request is inspired by your work with the teachers on Thursday.
We'll finish "Whack" shortly, but this is a timely chapter, and I'd
like us to be able to have it under our belts as we proceed. I'm
particularly interested in your thoughts on what tools we might need
and approach we might take to getting our TT (Third Thursday) project
"launched." Bacon's book will help us frame this conversation. In
other words: come in ready to start talking about the idea of
community and, specifically, how do we encourage it.
And, I'll try and get our course webpages updated tomorrow afternoon.
To close, I want to thank all of you for your participation Thursday
evening. I thought there was the start of a very good dynamic there,
and both Ann and Chris went off excited to talk to their colleagues
about what's going on. Your interactions laid a really good foundation
for our next steps. Thank you.
S28: Wednesday
Last week, we discussed our fine-grained read with respect to argument formation (Hacker A3).
On Wednesday, we're going to get into larger groups–pairs of pairs, specifically. Your editing team will walk another editing team through your edits so far. At this point, you should also have some notes to share with them regarding the outstanding issues that you have not yet addressed fully. The other editing team will then do the same for you, walking you through their document.
We'll go away and read Hacker C3 and C4 (Revising and Writing Paragraphs), and then do an edit pass on a new document. Our goal in this editing pass will be to read each paragraph for coherency–does each paragraph "work" in some way according to Hacker? And, does each paragraph lead into the next; if not, we need to flag (and perhaps fix) those paragraphs that are disjoint from one-another.
S30: Friday
I want you to come to class ready to be silly. We're going to start working on movement (something we have not done yet), and we'll do it in the context of some improv.
Come dressed to move around a bit, and be prepared to be silly. A big part of successful presentation is confidence. While some people say you can feel more confident by imagining your audience in their underwear, I personally think you develop confidence by learning to present in your underwear. If you can project confidence in nothing but your skivvies, you're all set.
So, come prepared on Friday to play some games that get us moving around.
Note: Do not show up to class in your underwear. We will not be taking off clothes during class. Nudity is something you should do on your own time, in your own space, and (if you are so inclined) consensually with an individual or individuals of your own choosing.
Second Note: This is getting awkward. For those of you who felt awkward reading that last bit, please realize you're not alone. I felt awkward writing it, but am doing my best to make up for it with these notes.
Third Note: I'm starting to think the notes aren't helping. While there are cultures that are completely comfortable with the mention of undergarments, it is possible our classroom isn't one of those. I may have scarred you for life. This would be bad.
I've attached a picture below of a cute duckling (CC credit to eyesplash). My hope is that it will erase any awkwardness you may have experienced, and instead leave you feeling happy and care-free. And, I won't remind you that all animals run around naked all the time, which might remind of you of the prior awkwardness.
