Lego Build #1

"Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all." -

                                                               Norman Cousins

 

I hand out green comment sheets. You place your parts and the answer picture (well-folded) in your bag, to pass around with the directions and comment sheet.

As you build, you should have a pencil in your hand. You SHOULD write on the directions with comments, question marks, and questions that you have as you are building. Talk back to the page. [This is evaluating someone's writing by telling them HOW IT IS WORKING.]

Then when the build is complete, you must score it and write about it on the green comment sheet. Remember, thorough comments earn you points.

Everyone builds two.

When all are done, all the papers come back to you. You can see how others did with your directions. You will have some ideas for ways to improve your own.

I will pass out a green Revision sheet at the end. Even if people easily built your directions, I want you to look for ways to improve what you have;  write ideas down on the green sheet, and make actual changes to you directions. Print TWO MORE COPIES of your directions.

Homework:

1. Brainstorm ideas for changes to your directions on the green brainstorming sheet. Come up with as many ideas for change -- even "silly" ones -- as possible.

2. Make typed changes to your directions and print the new version before class (2 copies). You do NOT have to make all the changes that you brainstormed. The revision is worth 1/4 of your grade on this project. Show that you are thinking. Bring 2 copies of the revised directions tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: superfluous

Typing Your Directions

We look at the answers to Ex. 23.9 page 272 in The Everyday Writer. Affect or effect?

I give you a directions sheet about MLA style, and you type up your directions. THE LAYOUT BELOW YOUR TITLE IS UP TO YOU.

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Homework:

1.  Finish typing your directions and print TWO COPIES so they are ready for a classmate to follow Monday. Have them printed BEFORE class starts. Have your answer picture ready as well. And don't leave the Legos at home!

2.  Read the handout about Lego nomenclature.  Write out the answers to the questions at the end of the handout IN YOUR DAYBOOK! The first daybook check is April 12.

3. TWFTD: nomenclature

4. On Monday and Tuesday I will be travelling to a conference.  You need to be alert and helpful so all of you do the Lego activity correctly (it IS complicated).

Legos Day One

"My play was a success.  The audience was a failure." 

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Thinkwrite in your daybook: If a set of directions fails, whose fault might it be?  Write until I stop you.

We look at pages 269-271 in The Everyday Writer. You spend five minutes working on Ex. 23.9 on page 272. Number to 13 and write the correct words in your daybook. Look at Section 24 for extra help.

I explain the Lego project, and you begin.

 

About quotes: who really said the above?

Homework:

1.  Finish writing out your directions and be ready to type them up tomorrow.  Make the picture to use for the answer key. (Draw or photo and copy. There is a color copier in room 136).

2. TWFTD: subsequent