Today is your last day of project work time!

Starter:  Make a to-do list of everything you want to accomplish before tomorrow's critique.  Remember, your piece should pretty close to finished.  

@the end of the hour:  Everything on your to-do list that you didn't finish is homework!

Starter:  Read over my feedback.  On one side of the index card, articulate your goals for project work time today.  What are your next steps?  On the other side of the card, express your needs.  What do you need from me?  From peers?  From your self?

Odds and Ends
1.  Did you turn in your research notes?  Did you turn in your project plan?  Check Powerschool and see if this assignment is missing.  If so, rectify it!
2.  Exhibition is in one week!  I need to meet with the exhibition team ASAP!  Today at lunch?  Where is my video and audio crew?  What is everyone's first period class?
3.  Democratic moment:  Do we want to do whole class critique or small group critique?  
4.  I have office hours today!  I will hold them Thursday too if need be.
5.  ONE WEEK MARK!  This is when the magic happens....

Work Time
Conference with me?

At the end of the hour...check in with yourself.  Share with a partner what you got done today and what you need to keep working on as homework,  What are your next steps?

FIRST:  Check in with yourself.  Revisit yesterday's comp book entry.  What are  your "next steps"??  Share with a partner what you would like to accomplish today.

ENACT YOUR NEXT STEPS!!

Draft due to me at the end of class!  
When you send your draft, please answer the following questions, either in the body of the email or on the draft itself:
1.  What is strong about your project?  What are you the most proud of about it?
2.  What do you see as the greatest areas for improvement?
3.  What would you like me to focus on when I give you feedback?  Do you have a focusing question?
4.  Anything else you want to say about the project or your process?

Project Tune!

Today let’s help each other work out the kinks!

Please sit in your "consultancy groups" and begin working on the starter.

Starter 11.6:  Reflect for a few minutes on where you are in the project and what you might need feedback on.  Write a focusing question for today’s “tune.”

Project Tune Protocol

1. Project Share/Focusing Question (1-5 min)

1. Presenter articulates the nitty-gritty of the project details.  Share the perspective you are trying to convey with your project. –AND/OR—Group members read the draft of the project in its written form—AND/OR—Presenter reads the project aloud to group members.
2. Presenter shares out the focusing question from the starter and shares any areas they feel they need feedback on.

2.  Clarification (1-2 minutes)

1. Participants ask questions to get information they may need about the concrete details of the project.
2. These questions are matters of fact, and should not delve into deeper issues.
3. Examples:

What is the ideological bias of the project?  What genre will you use?  How will you edit the video?

3.  Probing Questions (4-5 min)

1. The purpose of probing questions is NOT to give suggestions, but to help the presenter think more deeply about their project and what they are trying to do with it.
2. Probing questions should be big open-ended questions.  (think: seminar questions)
3. Examples: 

Why is it important that you communicate this message to your audience? 

Why did you decide on this topic?   

How will you connect emotionally to the audience?  

What rhetorical impact do you want the audience to experience?

4.  Participant Discussion (5-7ish minutes)

1. Participants share feedback with each other while the presenter is silent and removed from the circle.
2. Start with WARM feedback. What is strong about the project?
3. Move into suggestions/ideas for improvement.  Discuss the presenter’s focusing question!  Think about ways the project could achieve its desired effect, incorporate rhetorical strategies, and generally get to the next level of awesomeness.  Continue to discuss questions that you have about the project.
4. Presenter is silent and takes notes.

5. Reflection (2-3ish minutes)

1. Presenter speaks to comments/questions that were posed in the discussion while participants are silent.  This is a time for the presenter to reflect aloud on those ideas or questions that seemed particularly interesting or helpful or to ask questions about the comments of the group members.

6. Open discussion (if time allows…try to keep it to 20ish minutes per project)

1.   Group openly discusses the ideas for revision that came out of the critique.  This is the time to help each other troubleshoot the project!

AFTER, add some reflection to your comp book entry:  What ideas/thoughts did I get out of today?  What are my next steps?

Some Rhetorical Devices


WORK TIME
Project, in its current form, due tomorrow for a "Project Tune."
If you have a written draft, bring three copies for your group members.  If you want to "perform" what you have so far, that is fine too.  If you are doing a video, a storyboard or plan should suffice.

Models
1.  Tanner
2.  Nat Dogg


Project Plan due at the end of the hour!!

Project Plan Guidelines

Write a project plan that includes the following:

1. What is the topic of your project?  What is the exigency of the rhetoric?  Why is it important?

2.  Explain the perspective you want to capture in your rhetorical piece.  Can you distill it into a thesis statement?

3.  What genre will your project take?  Why is this genre a good form for your expression?

4.  What main “arguments” will your project put forth?  If you are working within a creative genre, such as music or poetry, how will you incorporate arguments and evidence?

5.  How will you appeal to your imagined audience’s values/beliefs/emotions, etc?  Which appeals are most appropriate for your genre and topic?

6.  What challenges do you anticipate?  What will you need to overcome these challenges?

You can answer these questions one by one, or you can write a few paragraphs that cover all of them.

Draft due for a "Project Tune" on Thursday!

Project Time!!!

1.  Models

• Gordon
• Tony

2.  Exhibition Details

a. Animas City Theater!!  Tuesday, November 18  6:15 PM

b. Hiring for the following roles

• Exhibition Coordinators
• Public Relations
• Set-up/Clean-up
• AV and Film Crew

c. Audience Response?  How should we do this?

3. Work Time

• Finish and Turn In Research Notes
• Conference with me!
• Project Plan due tomorrow at the end of the hour!