Daily Assignment

Monday, February 9


We will meet in room MB-11  at 1:00 p.m.  

This week is week 4 of the spring semester.  You should have submitted your weekly update for week 3 by yesterday.

Bring with you to class today:

1.  reflection paper  on Light 6.  Respond to the following prompt:

Discuss what you think are the most important ideas in this chapter and explain why they are important.  Give examples from your own experience or observations to support your claims.  Feel free to disagree with the author and to modify the suggestions he makes, but give your reasons when you do.  Whenever you refer to the text, give the page number in parentheses, whether you quote it directly or not.  Bring two paper copies to class.

2.  The Light book. 

Your Wednesday Group Meeting:

We will not meet in the classroom on Wednesday.  Instead, you will meet with the other members of your editorial group at a time and place that you agree on in advance.  Please print out, read in advance, and bring with you to your group meeting the instructions  for that meeting.  Follow those instructions.

Complete the following reading by Wednesday:

1.  Light 7, 8, 9, & Appendix. 

Complete the following writing by Wednesday:

 reflection paper  on Light 7, 8, 9, & Appendix.  Discuss what you think are the most important ideas in the book (not just these last three chapters, but the entire book) and explain why they are important.  Light discusses ways in which students, teachers or advisers, and the college as a whole could improve the learning experience for students.  Identify what you think are the most promising ideas under each of these headings, and explain why they are promising.  The ideas you identify need not come from the book, but they may.  Give examples from your own experience or observations to support your claims.  Feel free to disagree with the author and to modify the suggestions he makes, but give your reasons when you do.  Whenever you refer to the text, give the page number in parentheses, whether you quote it directly or not.  Bring one copy of your reflection paper to your group meeting, and send a copy to me by e-mail.

Reminder.  You should have completed the following reading by today:

Light 6. 

You should have completed the following writing by today:

reflection paper  on Light  6. 


On-line Discovering Ideas Table of Contents
On-line Syllabus

On-Campus Discovering Ideas Table of Contents
On-Campus Syllabus

Discovering Ideas
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