November 6, 2019


Drawn and Quartered: Q1


The first quarter ends next Friday. You will complete the last GAP report for Q1 on Thursday, November 14.

Take some time this weekend to review the assessment essentials for our course:

Clarifying Grade Abatement
Grade Abatement Profiles
Universal Skills and Traits
Step-By-Step Guide to Assessment
2019-2020 Calendar of Assessment
2019-2020 Student GAP Reports

The complete list is available through several menus on this site.


Current Writing Assignments


Today, you have two assignments due:

  1. The Skill of Empathy
  2. Reading Check: 11/6/19

The “reading check” will collect data about your progress in The Things They Carried. You must also write a short response.

The other assignment was posted on October 29, after you had read through the instructional background on empathy and Chad Fowler’s essay.

By the end of today, you should have practiced empathy in four ways. For each, you should have a written response and some metacognitive analysis.

Your next essay will continue into Q2:

River Writing: On Empathy

Read the prompt carefully. You will use the universal guide to write, which means you will need to discuss possible subjects and approaches in class before you begin.

Ask questions about this essay in class and in the comment section of the post. Use the comment section below to ask about this post’s overview of your work.

Note: You will be given a complete breakdown of our upcoming work on The Things They Carried. For now, continue to read at your own pace.

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