Answer the following questions and create your own site with links to your work. This may have depth-I'm not looking for one page here.

What Grade Do I Deserve?

Why?

How did you progress across the following dimensions?

1. Confidence and independence: in your own reading, writing, and thinking abilities.

2. Specific skills and strategies: involved in composing and communicating effectively, from concept to organization to digitizing data, and including technological skills for computer communication. The course goals are important here and you may think of them as the specific "skills and strategies" and "content knowledge" you're striving to acquire in this course.
   • American Literature, where we will discover that literature is the result of interaction with history as well as cultural practices and that it does not exist in a vacuum. How did other kinds of art influence literature? How did historical events impact a writer's work?
   • Computer Technology, where we will learn to use it in the context of the class to build your own narrative of American literature;
   • Critical Interpretation, where we will develop strategies and vocabulary for analyzing texts;
   • Research, where we will utilize online and conventional search strategies to gather information or data objects about a topic;
   • Collaboration, that recognizes multimedia often requires multiperspectives and work.
   
   

3. Content Knowledge: gained about new technologies, strategies of literary analysis, research methods, the topics you write about, organizing and presenting your ideas to others, and so on.

4. Use of your own prior and emerging experience: the ability to draw on your own experience and connect it to your work

5. Reflectiveness: reflecting about your own learning process, as well as developing a more analytical approach to reading, writing, and communication.

Evidence
Can either be linked above or here.

• The reflection on your initial approach to learning (from the first week of class)
• The Learning Journal you compiled
• Samples of written work (formal and informal writing)
• Samples of comments by others (professor, other students)
• Samples of other activities (i.e., e-mails, notes, planning diagrams, and so on)
• Samples of on-line comments like Interchanges, class discussions

I will honor all reasonable grade claims supported by observations and evidence.

Good Luck. Email me if you have any questions.

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