Before starting this assignment, be sure to share e-mail addresses with the other members of your discussion group.
Have a paper and pencil out or a blank word document open. Close your eyes and think of a time when something happened that changed how you perceived people or events (or perhaps the choices open to you). It could be a big change or a small change. Maybe this is a story you have often shared with people before. Open your eyes and describe what happened as vividly as you can. Write quickly. For now, it is important to get as much as you can on paper.
Download the worksheet. Continue to follow the directions for items 2 through 8. When you have finished your story, feel free to change the names and places in whatever way seems appropriate to you before uploading your completed story.
This is an assignment for which reviews are required. In class today your group should create and send an e-mail with everyone’s email address, so that you can contact each other over the weekend to exchange stories and reviews before the next class.
- Step 1: By the end of the day on Friday, everyone at your table should have 1) uploaded their story to Canvas and 2) emailed their story to everyone else in their table group.
- Step 2: Between Friday and the end of the day on Sunday, please go to Canvas to download a Story Rubric you can use as a guide regarding what qualities make for a good story. Next, write a short, constructive review of each story you received from a person in your group. Then, copy all of these reviews onto a single document and upload that document to Canvas. Finally, send your review to each story’s author.
- Step 3: Between Sunday and the beginning of next class, revise your story taking into consideration the reviews of your story that you received from people in your group. Below the revised story, provide a 100-word explanation of how you revised the story after reading the responses of reviewers. The story revision and your comments on the revision process should be uploaded as one document.
See the Canvas assignments for details, the rubric for reviewing stories, and to submit assignments.