Kaczur 1 Sarah Kaczur L408 Dr. Carter Book Rationale ... - Oncourse

Kaczur 6Exit Slips: Exit slip questions can serve as a quick assessment tool to who is completing theexpected reading and who is not; or those who do not comprehend the literature. As well, exitslips at the end of class serve as a good reflective tool for students and can help aide inassessment of class engagement with the material, understanding of discussion topics, andfurther insight to class questions covering subject material. Exit slips can be used for students topose questions/concerns about class material/discussion for further planning or can simply begiven in place of students reflecting in personal journals; (if class goes longer than expected andstudents do not have ample time to reflect. Exit slips could be used at the beginning of the unit;prior to students engaging in the novel to help serve as tools for communicating questions, ideas,concerns, etc.Perspective Paper: Students will be given the prompt of placing themselves in the shoes of anyperson in the novel; Steve, lawyers, the judge, the jurors, Steve’s parents, convicts in jail, etc,and should be a smaller writing project. This could be used to assess individual creativity andability for students to define themselves in the life of another person. Essentially, this paper is toderive some empathic reasoning and provoke and define ethical/unethical dialogue for eachstudent. Perhaps assign 10-20pts for the paper; while each journal entry may count as 3-5 ptseach.Rough Draft: Rough drafts are necessity! Since this will be the first unit for the students it isnecessary to set up the rough draft accordingly; make sure students are aware that effort must beshown in their rough draft to get full credit. However, remind your students that a rough draft isa rough draft. The rough draft would focus on having students determine whether theirpersuasive argument has anticipated all of its counter arguments. Students should then engage inpeer editing; giving students a chance to engage with others, formulate other ideas/opinions, and