Homework for Thursday 3/31

Here are links to the reading and homework assignments for this Thursday.

Reading: Case 6

Homework assignment

Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck!

Homework: Case 4

Assignment #1: Your sub-topic

Join the Yahoo group on your group topic. Discuss your sub-questions over the next few days, so that everyone is clear about what all the sub-topics are, and who will take which sub-topic for his/her term paper assignment.

Type up a short paragraph answering the following 3 questions:

1. What is your sub-topic?
2. What is the group topic?
3. How will your sub-topic help the group to answer it’s main question (topic)?

Assignment #2: Case 4

Read Case 4, linked below.

Case 4: BOZ Will be BOZ

Type your answers:

1. Identify all the major claims made in the case. Don’t confuse claims with sentences – just capture the major claims made about the argument that’s taking place.
2. For each claim, identify which kind of claim it is.

First Homework Assignment

Here's a link to the reading for your first homework, due Thursday January 27.

Case 2 Reading

Here's the new homework question for Case 2:

Read Case 2. Then,

Make a list of reasons why a rational person would think that the flag is NOT offensive; then

make a list of reasons why a rational person would think that the flag IS offensive.

The young women in the story give their own reasons - list those, and then add your own. Spend at least 20 minutes actively brainstorming reasons.

Let me know if you have any questions!

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Forum Assignment: Argument Maps

Work on your argument map for a few hours. After you've worked for some time, think about what major question or questions you're running into. It can be a question about your argument itself (you suddenly realized you didn't understand part of your argument until you tried to put it down systematically); how the program works; how to arrange claims (how the claims fit together to form an argument); whatever questions you've run into, and you can't figure out for yourself after puzzling over it for a while. Put your questions below in comments.

Homework for Thursday

To review, here's your homework for Thursday:

Read Case 6 in Critical Thinking: A Campus Life Casebook

Write down all the reasoning that supports the conclusion "A reasonable person would understand that the cartoon was intended ironically, and was meant to question and mock stereotypes."

Write down all the reasoning that supports the conclusion "A reasonable person would understand the cartoon as supporting stereotypes."

Type your answers.

Homework for Thursday 8/19

This assignment will have two parts. Please do them in order - the second part depends on your having thought carefully about the first.

Your assignment should be typed, double-spaced, and in 11- or 12-point font. Put your name, course and section number, and the date at the top.

1. Think about your goals and how this course will fit into them. And think about your goals for the course in particular - not just what grade you want to earn, but also how you hope it will help you gain skills for other course work, decision-making skills about your life, logical skills to use within your future career, and anything else you can think of that requires careful, skillful thinking. Write a few paragraphs about that, first.

2. Once you've completed that, think about what rules for yourself will most help you. We're thinking about rules for within the classroom - that is, rules about how you and your classmates will be expected to behave.

The books for the course, the order we go through materials, the assignments, the lectures, and the grades - those are all part of the pedagogy (the techniques and theories of teaching). That's all my duty to shape. If you knew how to set up a course to learn this stuff, you wouldn't need me :-)

But the etiquette - do you want everyone to be able to leave cell phones on and take calls in class? Text as much as you want? Wander in and out? - also contributes a major part to everyone's success in the course. That's what I'm asking you to think about. Remember that you have to make rules for everyone - you can't have a special set of rules for yourself, and another set for everyone else.

So think about what atmosphere for learning you want to create, and want your classmates to contribute to creating, that will most help you take in the pedagogy. Once you've given that some considered thought, write another several paragraphs explaining what rules you're proposing, and why.

Your completed paper, with parts one and two, should be at the very least one full page - more likely 2 or more.