We will be meeting in project disciplines this week. The student-staff pairings are based primarily on student proposals, some of which are still being revised and completed. If changes need to be made to disciplinary groups, they will be made collaboratively starting on Wednesday and concluding on Friday morning.
It is a priority to make thinking visible throughout the research phase, so that we can see how our thinking changes, what influences us, what challenges us, and how we use our community and resources to learn and create. Keep group thinking alive in the room. Keep individual notes in manilla folders and Google Drive.
Please take attendance using the spreadsheet.
OBJECTIVES THIS WEEK
- Build community within disciplinary groups - learning about each other as wonderers and project managers.
- Refine project ideas and articulate thorough proposals.
- Engage in Academic Research and utilize the IDEAS Language Arts Research and Annotation Guide to 1) Locate credible sources for projects, 2) Read and annotate sources, 3) Manage an EasyBib project.
- Analyze and select professionals models and inspirations related to a particular concept in academic content or art form.
- Reflect on Habits of Learning.
MONDAY>>
Start with ideation groups, then we will meet in disciplinary groups for the first time today. We will get to know the people and projects in the groups in order to begin building community. Students will identify specific needs, refine proposals, and begin research.
TUESDAY>>
Groups will establish norms for research in their space and with their resources. This will be a reading and conferencing day - working toward Annotated Bibliographies.
WEDNESDAY>>
Staff will share a professional model, establishing structures for collecting professional models as part of research. Adjustments to disciplinary groups, if needed.
THURSDAY>>
Reading and conferencing day.
FRIDAY>>
Reading day. Students will share Annotated Bibliography drafts for feedback and recommendations.
As we enter the research phase of IDEAS Block, consider these elements of our learning community:
Freshmen: All freshmen complete an extended bibliography during Fall 2016 semester. During the Spring 2017 semester, freshmen complete a traditional annotated bibliography along with a traditional research paper.
Research Paper: All sophomores, juniors, and seniors need to complete a research paper UNLESS they have had another formal writing component pre-approved by Addie based on the needs of their project. In order to receive this pre-approval, students need to set up a formal writing conference with Addie in
The Writing Center.
Unfortunately, students have tried to use other writing endeavors in order to "get out" of truly demonstrating writing standards. Summaries of projects or "persuasive" arguments that merely supply the student's opinion are NOT accepted.
Acceptable formal writing endeavors are listed under the Academic Writing tab on the
Humanities website.
