class meeting Wednesday Feb 16
Listening versus reading. How to do a KWL+ on a question. What’s a discourse community? What types are there? Why is language important for a discourse community?
due by Saturday Feb 19 end of day
- Perusall: Read and annotate Perri Klass essay. While you are reading, please mark places in the text that caught your eye, where you wanted to know more, where you were confused or where you related!
due by Tuesday Feb 22 end of day
- OpenLab post: Write a post of at least 300 words. In Perri Klass’ essay article, she paints a portrait, not of a particular word, but of a whole new language she had to learn in order to fit in with her new profession. What are some communities that you are a part of? (hint: we’re all a part of multiple communities — you can take a look at the links about sneakerheads to find how people talk about and within a discourse community that’s all about a shared interest or passion.) What “languages” have you had to learn to engage with these communities—and how did you learn these languages? Are there particular words or phrases that stick out to you as helping you feel like you were part of the in-crowd?
- CATEGORY: Klass
- Padlet: Create a new post on this Padlet. Put your name in the Subject line. Then tell us what discourse community you’re going to talk about and explain what word or phrase you’re going to use for your Portrait. Add an image that shows us something about that discourse community.
