TPOL Critique and Refinement/Student Feedback Survey

Critique your group member's presentations using the criteria we have been practicing all week.
1.  Time each other!!!
2.  Look for elements of content (if things are missing, let the presenter know).

• hook/metaphor/theme
• answer to focusing question
• evidence

3.  Score presenter with rubric.  Note...

• Strengths:  What are they doing well?
• Refinements:  What should they do to improve?
• Why did you score him/her how you did?

Please take the time to fill out my Student Feedback Survey!!!  It is VERY important to me what you guys thought of my class this year, and your feedback helps to shape my teaching and curriculum.  Please and thank you!

Thanks for this magical year!  It has been my great pleasure to be your teacher this year.  Pura vida!

TPOL Model Critique

Look for the following content elements

1. hook/metaphor/theme

2. answer to focusing question

3. evidence and specific examples

Score with rubric

1.  Note strengths

2.  Note feedback for refinement

3.  Rationale:  Why did you score him/her the way that you did?

Presentation Prep

1.  Notecards

2.  Evidence Gathering

3.  Work Time                           

4.  Rehearse with Partner?

Come tomorrow ready to practice presentation and Q&A!!

TPOL Prep Day 2

Why extended metaphor?

Extended Metaphor Example:  Will Ferrell 

Pair share your presentation progress with your neighbor.

Freewrite:  What specific evidence can you use to support the claims of your brainstorm from yesterday?

Model TPOL’s:  John and Hanna

1.  What is his or her hook/theme/metaphor?

2.  How did presenter address focusing question?

3.  What evidence did presenter use?

Work Time:

1. Draft presentation

2. Evidence Gathering

3. Conference with me

TPOL Prep

Reminder:  Project Reflections and DP update are due today by the end of the day.  Please email reflections to Mike and Jessica by midnight!

Freewrite in Composition Book: Who have you become this year as a result of your experiences at AHS?

9th Grade TPOL 2013
9th Grade TPOL Rubric
TPOL Questions


Model TPOL's 
For each presenter, note the following

1.  What is his or her hook/theme/metaphor?

2.  How did presenter address focusing question?

3.  What evidence did presenter use?

Brainstorm (choose one:  list, cluster, outline, write, talk to a partner)

1.  Content of presentation

2.  Hook/theme/metaphor

3.  Evidence

WORK TIME:  Begin drafting your presentation!

You did it!! Exhale....

Reflection (to be used in your DP update)

This document should be structured like a 5-paragraph (TEA) essay and uploaded to your DP when you add the Food project to your Humanities page.  Give each paragraph a strong topic sentence.

Write an introductory paragraph that includes a brief description of the project.

¶ 2.  How did you connect to this project?  How has your thinking changed over the course of this project? Explain. What eating goals do you hope to pursue?

¶ 3.  How was this project difficult?  What was most challenging?  What aspects of research and writing were most challenging (think about starting with picking a topic and crafting a research question all the way to revising your drafts)?

¶ 4.  Looking back at your completion of this large and formal piece of writing, what did you learn about your personal writing process? What would you do differently? How would you approach this project, or any large writing assignment, differently in order to make your writing process easier and the final product better?

¶ 5. Now that you have finished your study of food, how would you answer this essential question:   How does one navigate their own personal omnivore’s dilemma in a world of abundant eating choices?

DP Update
1.  Image of project
2.  Essay
3.  Project Reflection

If you would like to look ahead to TPOL's....
TPOL PREVIEW

FINAL DRAFT DUE AT MIDNIGHT!

Papers are due at midnight by email to Mike and Jessica.  

Michael1.richardson@umontana.edu

jessicaahs9@gmail.com

Come to class tomorrow with a printed out version of your final draft:

Single-spaced

Title center-aligned

Name in right-hand corner

How does food reflect who we are?

Food #18: Think about the quote, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."  What do you think this quote means?  What does your food say about you?

Take a look at the What the World Eats photo set.

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/04/27/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats-in-a-week/

Pick 3 photos to analyze, then record your response. 

With each picture you analyze, consider:

What stands out to you in the picture?

What assumptions can you make about the food culture of that country?

        -What is their relationship with food?

        -Where do they get their food from?

        -How healthy is their food?

        -What sort of choices do they have to make regarding their food?

        -What is their work life like?

        -What other assumptions can you make?

Write 3 food/eating goals you want to work on.

        -Eat more organic?

        -Eat locally?

        -Keep costs low?

        -Eat efficiently?

        -What else?

Draft #2 due at Midnight tonight!

AM class:  Send draft to jessicaahs9@gmail.com

PM class: Send draft to michael1.richardson@umontana.edu

In the body of the email, please answer the following questions:

1.  What are the strengths of your draft?

2.  What do you need to work on most to refine the draft?

3.  When I give you feedback, what would you like me to focus on?