ELD Check-in (20-25 min)

Let’s briefly review the prompt for this assignment.

In Learning Module 10 you were asked to outline your ELD a bit. I’m going to pair you up with another student(s). I want you to share your outlines and talk through what you want to do for your paper.

Then we are going to come together, review the prompt once more, and talk through any questions or issues you might have.

Final Thoughts (5-10 min)

If nothing else, I hope you walk away from class with this:

• When you hear, read, view things, I hope you continually ask: why did they say/compose/write it that way? Why not another way? What reasons were there to put it that way?
• I hope you put similar questions to your own writing and composing: why say it this way and not that way? What if I said it this way?
• The above two things means careful reading and listening practices!
• I hope you think about the process of your writing and think about people who can help you. That means thinking about the conditions of your writing and the peers/tutors/teachers that can help you if you have questions.

Whether you like it or not, we are all connected to other people and the larger environment we inhabit. Language and rhetoric are ways to coordinate that activity. The pandemic shows us very clearly how people and objects have been coordinated through rhetoric in both good and bad ways. I hope you can use language and rhetoric and know how others use it so you can participate in something larger and make knowledge that can help you and others.

In-class time to write until 4:35pm, if you want (?? min)

Like last class, let’s take some time to work on our own writing. I’ll stay here until 4:35pm. Do you want to do breakout rooms or stay in large group?