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English 100
Honors: Students Design and Lead Their Own
Class!
...................................................Class
Team
Roles
For this class, you, the students, will in a
large part be designing your own course and leading the
instruction of the topics you select. For this to be
successful, students will work in teams and will rotate the
following roles and responsibilities for each unit (you will
be graded on each of these roles and this accounts for 20%
of your overall course grade):
Presenters: For
each unit, there will be a team of presenters who will
present material, facts and information on the topic under
study. The presenting team will be asked to direct one
75-minute class period and their presentation can include
but is not limited to the following:
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Presenting facts and research
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Inviting guest speakers (if you bring someone in, you must
still be involved by providing context, leading
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discussion, facilitating
questions.
Don't
bring in someone to "take over" for you)
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Showing parts of relevant films, documentaries, videos
..............*
Bringing in "artifacts" connected with the topic: show and
tell items
..............*
If relevant, playing music or recordings
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Visual aids: slide shows, overheads, posters, etc..
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Discussion questions
..............*
Handouts
............. *
Computerized components
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* Short learning games
In presenting, be creative and try to engage your audience.
You get a chance to play teacher, so try to involve and
interest your audience as much as possible. You know what
it is like to be a student, so think what would interest and
engage you and help you to better learn the topic.
Recorders: For
each unit, we will have a team of recorders who will take
notes on each class period during their unit. Since
students will be working in teams, you can rotate the
"note-taking" responsibility. At the end of each unit, the
recorders for that unit must type up all of their class
notes, organize them clearly and in chronological order, and
the recorders will then distribute a copy of the "Notes
Packet" to each student in the class. Each team of
recorders will divide the copy cost evenly amongst the group
members. "Notes Packets" are due one class period after the
last day of instruction on the unit (the paper workshop
day).
Generators: On
the last day of each unit (the class before paper workshop
day), a team of Generators, will provide the class with a
typed handout of questions and paper topics that they have
created. The questions should be complex, multi-layered and
should lead to interesting discussion as well as viable
paper topics. The paper topics should also be complex,
creative and centered on the reading for the unit.
Researchers:
Research will be required for all of the
papers in this course except for the papers written in class
(the midterm and final exam). Therefore, for each unit, a
team of students will be responsible for gathering a list of
sources. There must be a minimum of twenty (20) outside
sources and they must be from a mixture of places: online,
books, magazines, organizations, etc.. On the last day of
each unit (the class before paper workshop day), the
Researchers must provide for each class member a typed Works
Cited page. See the Course Reader on how to document
outside sources and create Works Cited pages using MLA
standards.
Class Roles
Schedule:
........................Topic
1:
Gangs.........Topic
2.........................Topic
3......................Topic
4
TEAM
1.........Presenters................Researchers................Generators................Recorders
TEAM
2.........Recorders................Presenters....................Researchers.............Generators
TEAM
3.........Generators...............Recorders....................Presenters.................Researchers
TEAM
4.........Researchers............Generators...................Recorders.................Presenters
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