Sentences! (30-45 min)

Reread your writing in your major projects. You might skim a bit. Choose 3 of your favorite sentences you have written that include punctuation beyond “ending” punctuation (i.e., periods, question marks, exclamation points).

Spend some time on this! Consider what we talked about last class in terms of what punctuation can do to help your sentences. Especially think in terms of pauses. What does a pause do? Why do you want readers to pause? To think something over more? To emphasize something? To establish a rhythm that is pleasant to hear in your head? What do the pauses of your punctuation help create for your readers?

Share your 3 sentences with a partner and talk about why you like them.

Together, with your partner, elect one of your three sentences to be pasted to this Google Doc. Then we are going to vote for our top sentences and think together about why we like them.

After talking about these sentences, you are going to go back to your Research Project draft and revise one sentence to imitate one of your favorites or one of someone else’s favorites. Be ready to present on what you did and why.

Reflective Writing (30 min)

I want you to get some in-class practice with using your previous writing and work to reflect about.

Review ALL the work you’ve done this semester: Labor Logs, Journal Posts, Annotations, Information Literacy Narrative Drafts, Information Analysis Argument Drafts, Research Project Drafts, and everything else (e.g., Synthesis Paragraph, Assessment Letters).

Take notes! What grabs you? What is interesting? What are you stuck on?

When you have some thoughts together, write at least one thing in response to the following on this Google Doc:

• What stands out to you as most interesting that you’ve learned or thought about in class this semester?
• What is the thing you have created (or are in the midst of creating) that you are most proud of? Why?
• What is the “muddiest point” for you in terms of what we have done this semester? In other words, what is one thing that you are still unsure of, don’t understand, or don’t quite agree with from things we’ve explored this semester?
• What is one thing you’d like to continue to work on in your writing and reading (or anything else related to the class?

Remember: if you are still revising stuff, then that means the last thing you should turn in is your Final Reflection Assignment. The work of revision you are doing might change your mind on some things.

Independent Writing Time + Checking on Plan (15-30 min)

Open up the Planning Document and check in with yourself. How’s it going? Do you need to adjust your plan? How so?

Then, think about what you can work on for the next 15 minutes. Get to work. I will come around and check in with folks.

Next Time (2-5 min)

-Final Feedback. I will send notes to everyone at some point with thoughts on your work submitted between December 8 and 20. If you are doing an extra revision for your Research Project, let me know. I will expedite feedback on that for you. But only if I hear from you.

-Make sure to submit makeup work if you haven’t already. You may have noticed I forgave you if you missed an annotation assignment or two.

-Research project drafts due by tonight.

-Final Reflection and all extra revisions due December 20. For Final Reflection, let me know which option you are doing within the assignment or in the submission text on Blackboard.

-Last class on Tuesday! We will do more work on reflection, finalize our plans, and check in through on how things are going. I will also have some final thoughts and a way to wrap up the semester.