Day 11
Tues. Dec. 1
Speakers discuss articles from Aeon and Sixth Tone
Developing your ideas
Speakers share language-learning plans
Homework
Tianji: Read Xinyi and Shen Shen
Xinyue: Read Wu You and Kaiyuan
Ruohan: Read Rachael and Tianxuan
Xinguo: Read Shen Shen and Catherine
Xinyi: Read Kaiyuan and Tianji
Wu You: Read Tianxuan and Xinyue
Rachael: Read Catherine and Ruohan
Shen Shen: Read Tianji and Xinguo
Kaiyuan: Read Xinyue and Xinyi
Tianxuan: Read Ruohan and Wu You
Catherine: Read Xinguo and Rachael
➤ Read and respond to the course paper drafts of your two assigned classmates
In class I’ll have assigned you two classmates whose essays you’ll read carefully for homework.
For each essay write a ~250 word letter to your classmate in which you 1) summarize their argument (as you understand it) and 2) pose at least one question about their ideas that you are genuinely curious about, with the goal of helping your classmate further develop their ideas.
Please have one letter done by Wednesday before class, and the second letter done by midnight on Friday. Upload your letters to Box. Name the files in a way that clearly identifies who you are and whose essay you’re responding to.
Each of these response letters will be graded and count as a short writing assignment.
➤ Read They Say, I Say Chapters 6 & 7
Read TSIS Chapter 6 (“Skeptics May Object”) and Chapter 7 (“So What? Who Cares?”). As you read, think about how Graff and Birkenstein’s advice could be applied to your own essay, and to the two classmates’ essays you’re reading.
➤ Speakers
Xinyi: Summarize what you believe are Graff and Birkenstein’s most useful pieces of advice in Chapter 6, illustrating your points with details from your own essay and/or from the essays of the two classmates you’re reading for homework.
Rachael: Summarize what you believe are Graff and Birkenstein’s most useful pieces of advice in Chapter 7, illustrating your points with details from your own essay and/or from the essays of the two classmates you’re reading for homework.
Tianxuan and Xinyue: Give us a progress report about your language-learning plan. (What’s your long-term goal? What habit are you trying to acquire, and how does it relate to your long-term goal? Have you been able to keep up the habit — why or why not? — and what are you learning from the process?)
