Responses are due in my Rhodes email inbox by Monday, 12:00 AM CT unless otherwise specified in the syllabus. You are responsible for any glitches in email delivery. If you want to make sure you get your response in on time regardless of technology issues, submit them early and request that I notify you of receipt.
Guidelines
- Evaluate a lecture or discussion from the past week (or other time period if noted in syllabus).
- Summarize one day's worth of lecture and/or discussion
- Share questions about the class and challenge your professor's assumptions, interpretations and conclusions.
- Evaluate readings from the past week (or other time period if noted in syllabus).
- Summarize two reading assignments. The two assignments must come from different sources. The assignment you summarize may be one day’s worth of reading from:
- McWilliams & Piotrowski
- Merrill & Paterson
- Layne
- One reading posted under "Readings" on the course blog
- Share questions about the authors' work and challenge his/her assumptions, interpretations and conclusions.
- Draw relationships.
- Explain how lectures and readings relate to one another.
- Explain how lectures and readings fit in with what we discussed earlier in the course.
- Explain what lectures and readings say about historical and/or current events.
- Format and procedure
- One page, single-spaced.
- Please be sure to check grammar, spelling and punctuation.
- Write in a word processor first and save it.
- Email the file or the plain text to the professor.
Rubric
By referring to the rubric below, you can see what types of responses will earn what sort of grade. You may also download a higher quality version.
