ENGL 511 Special Topics in Writing: Young Adult Literature
Class Partner Profile for Class Profile Page (instructions)
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OVERVIEW
I started making class profile pages during the pandemic for an asynchronous class I was teaching, but I realized that they are fun and useful even for a class that meets in person. At first, the class profile page was just a collection of bios of all of us in the class. Overtime, the assignment evolved to accomplish a few things:
Click here to see a sample of what the page looks like when it's all done.
DETAILS
Even though it does all of that, it's a pretty low key assignment:
WHEN YOU SUBMIT THE PROFILE OF YOUR PARTNER: you will also need to submit a photo of YOU (not your partner). I will pair your picture with the profile that your partner wrote about you to create the profile page for our class. So. to recap: you'll submit the 250 word profile of your partner that you wrote and workshopped and .jpg image of you.
EVALUATION
The partner interview/profile for the Class Profile Page is worth 5% of your final grade. Evaluation for this assignment is pretty simple. If you complete it on-time and submit your profile of your partner and your image of you to the google form, you get an A. If you don't, you get an F.
I started making class profile pages during the pandemic for an asynchronous class I was teaching, but I realized that they are fun and useful even for a class that meets in person. At first, the class profile page was just a collection of bios of all of us in the class. Overtime, the assignment evolved to accomplish a few things:
- An icebreaker that people hate less than other icebreakers.
- A resource of who's who in our class.
- A way to practice how we will workshop and talk about/respond to writing in class
- A space to showcase our shared work for the semester.
Click here to see a sample of what the page looks like when it's all done.
DETAILS
Even though it does all of that, it's a pretty low key assignment:
- In class, you'll be paired up with a classmate and interview them recently.
- You'll draft a 250 word charmer of an introduction, using 3rd person, of your partner. To do that, we'll employ a number of fast write techniques.
- We'll have a brief workshop and this will help you see, in a super low stakes way, how workshops will run during the semester.
- You'll use this google form to submit your finished profile during the second week of class
WHEN YOU SUBMIT THE PROFILE OF YOUR PARTNER: you will also need to submit a photo of YOU (not your partner). I will pair your picture with the profile that your partner wrote about you to create the profile page for our class. So. to recap: you'll submit the 250 word profile of your partner that you wrote and workshopped and .jpg image of you.
EVALUATION
The partner interview/profile for the Class Profile Page is worth 5% of your final grade. Evaluation for this assignment is pretty simple. If you complete it on-time and submit your profile of your partner and your image of you to the google form, you get an A. If you don't, you get an F.