Major Due Dates

Segement II

Segment III

Segment IV Segment IV Updates

Segment V

I. Getting to know each other (January 19 - 22)

II. Think about it: Intelligence, knowledge, and thinking (January 26 - February 12)

• Tuesday, January 26:Einstein's Dreams to be completed
• Friday, February 12: Formal Paper #1 Due

III. What's your style? Learning with your strengths (February 16 - March 5)

• Tuesday, February 16:7 Kinds of Smart to be completed
• Friday, March 5:Formal Paper #2 Due

Intermezzo (March 9 - March 12)

• Class canceled: Mandatory individual conferences

Spring Break (March 13 - March 21)

IV. Remember when? The role of memory in learning (March 23 - April 16)

• Tuesday, March 26: Memoir to be completed
• Friday, April 9: Formal Paper #3 Due

V. Metacognition: Keep that executive functioning!(April 20 - April 30)

• Tuesday, April 13: Reading TBA completed
• Friday, April 30: Formal Paper #4 Due

VI. Putting it all together (May 11)

• Tuesday, May 11, 11:20 am -1:50 pm: Final Examination scheduled
• Reflective Portfolios Due

Segment Schedules

Segment II ­ Think about it: Intelligence, knowledge & thinking

Segment III -- What's your style? Learning with your strengths

Saturday, February 27

Film: The School We Went To

This film tells the story of a student who stands up to his school's authoritarian assistant principal over the issue of a play the students want to produce.

• Location: Smithsonian Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium
• Time: 2:00 PM, 86 minutes
• Cost: Free; 2 tickets per person, distributed 1 hour before show (Meet in ticket line at 1:00 pm)

   

Week 7

Tuesday, March 2

Homework Due: Preparation for in-class workshop

Primary Course Activity: In-class workshop of formal paper #2

Mini lesson: TBA

 

Friday, March 5

Homework Due: Formal paper #2

Primary Course Activity: TBA

Segment IV schedule distributed

Segment IV - Remember when?

The role of memory in intelligence and learning

 

Week 10

Tuesday, March 23

Informal Essay Assigned

Formal Paper #2 Assigned­Critical Memories: Analyzing a Literary Text

Segment IV Schedule distributed

Course Activities

• Discuss Formal Paper #3
• Meet in Groups

 

Friday, March 26

Homework Due

• Informal essay
• Have chosen memoir completed

Course Activities

• 20 minutes for groups
• Memory Models--How does it all work?
• Openers (Trimble, P. 30)

 

Week 11

Tuesday, March 30

Homework Due

• At least 3 thesis ideas for your upcoming paper (typed and ready to submit)

Informal essay assigned

Course Activities

• 20 minutes for groups
• Portfolio Workshop
• Middles (Trimble, p 37)

 

Friday, April 2

Homework Due

• Informal Essay
• Mandatory submission of first version of formal paper #3

Course Activities

• Importance of memory in learning
• Closers (Trimble,& p. 55)

 

Week 12

Tuesday, April 6

Homework Due

• Preparation for in-class workshop

Course Activities

• In-class workshop of formal paper #3
• Readability (Trimble, P. 69)

 

Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 pm - 8 pm

Berlin on Screen: Shadows of a Lost Metropolis

Slide Lecture with Dietrich Neumann, Professor of Art and Architectural History atBrown University

Berlin's appearance before its wartime devastation is best preserved in motion pictures, which preserved on screen a city that no longer exists. During the 1920s and 1930s, movies captured the intimate streetscapes and gracious boulevards later flattened by bombing. More recent films portray the city's postwar devastation and division by the Berlin Wall. Dietrich Neumann will consider Berlin's urban form through the cinema using slides and film footage.

The National Building Museum

$11 Fee, payable at door

 

Friday, April 9

Homework Due

Formal paper #3 (in folder with all process work)

Course Activity

• Group Presentations
• Segment V schedule distributed

Update Segment IV Schedule

(Revised April 5, 1999)

Tuesday, April 6

• First version of formal paper#3 due (Remember, if you do not turn in a first version, you will not receive a passing grade for the paper. If you turn your first version in late, your final paper grade will earn a full grade late penalty and you will not have the option of revising it.)
• Primary class activity: Memory models and the importance of memory

Friday, April 9

• First version returned
• Primary class activity: In-class workshop of all papers
• Informal Essay due

Tuesday, April 13

• Final version of formal paper due.
• Primary class activity: Presentations
• Segment IV schedule distributed

Friday, April 20

• Portfolio Workshop

Segment V - Metacognition: Keep that executive functioning

Week 14

Tuesday, April 20

Informal Essay Assigned (last one!)

Course Activity

• Metacognition at work

 

Friday, April 23

Course activity

• In-class essay

 

Week 15

Monday, April 26 & Tuesday, April 27

Mandatory individual conferences

 

Tuesday, April 27

Homework Due

• Informal Essay

Course Activity

• Semester Wrap-up

 

Friday, April 30 -- Last Day of Class!

Homework Due

• Formal paper #4 (in folder with all process work)

Course Activity

• Celebration!

Last day of regular office hours

Segment VI - Putting it all together

Extended Office Hours:

Monday, May 3

• 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, and by appointment

Wednesday, May 5

• 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, and by appointment

Monday, May 10

• By appointment only

 

Very Important Date!

Wednesday, May 5

• 5:00 pm, Gray Hall 227, Vertical File
• Last day to turn in all outstanding revisions of formal papers!
• No revisions will be accepted after this date!

 

5:30 pm, Location TBA

• Class dinner out! Take a break from studying for a low-key and relaxing dinner with your classmates and instructor

 

Tuesday, May 11, 11:20 am

Portfolios Due

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