On the whiteboard---
"Welcome!
Please take a seat near the front. Choose carefully, because this will be your seat for the rest of the semester. [I will take attendance with a seating chart..]"
Texts:
Bridging the Gap, 11th edition
Powers by Ursula LeGuin
READ 097-06 Mrs. Carol Ruth Kimmel September 26, 2016
In Class Writing--
Answer the
following questions on a separate piece of paper. Please write in complete sentences, skip
lines, and number your answers.
1. What do you expect from this class?
2. What do you expect from me, the
instructor, in this class?
3. What can I, the instructor, expect
from you in this class?
4. What are you most interested in
studying here at NEIU?
5. What is the last thing you read, in
other words, the thing you read most recently?
This "in class" assignment was handed in at the end of the period.
Discussion of the syllabus.
Handout from the text, Bridging the Gap: pages 21-26 Students were divided into groups and told to work together to find the answers to the questions. They were supposed to exchange information.
Handout from Scientific American: "A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop" -- students are to write an outline of this article
Homework:
Complete the text assignment and the outline assignment, above
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