Social Mobility and Essay Critiques

Social Mobility Jigsaw

1. Get in groups with at least one person from each group represented.  
2. Each person shares their poster, talks about major takeaways.
   1. Others take notes on that factor and how it influences social mobility
3. Discuss:
   1. What surprised or stood out to you about what you learned here?  What new things did you learn about social mobility?
   2. What connections do you see between these different influences (education, parenting, geography, social capital/networks)?  How do they challenge or reinforce each other?
   3. Which of these factors is easiest to address/change?  Which is hardest?  Why?
   4. Knowing what you know now, if you had one piece of advice for someone trying to achieve social mobility, what would it be?
4. Turn posters back in- Lori will hang the best ones!

Essay Peer Critique, Parts 3 and 4
Trade essays with a partner from another table.  

1. Read Part 3
2. Comment on Part 3
   1. Where is a place in here where they could be more specific and/or add more detail about HOW their strategy created new understanding?  What kind of specifics or detail would you like to see?  Make at least one comment addressing this.
   2. Do they clearly address new insights they gained into specific parts of the text (these parts should be quoted or paraphrased)?  How could they add to this discussion?
   3. Do they clearly address new insights they gained into the book as a whole?  How could they expand here, or make it more clear or specific?
   4. Check their quotes:  Are they set up correctly, using one of the three methods from the handout?  Do they have a good follow-up to each quote?  If not, make a comment of what they need to fix, or what they could write for a follow up.
   5. Are any quotes or paraphrased areas cited correctly using MLA format?
   6. Edit for proofreading/clarity
3. Read Part 4
4. Comment on Part 2
   1. Where is one place in here where you feel like they very clearly described something larger they learned from this assignment or process?  Compliments!
   2. Where is one place in this section where they need to go into more detail or expand on what they learned from this assignment or process?  Give a specific suggestion.
   3. Edit for proofreading/clarity

Essay Revision Time
Some things to think about…

1. Writing Technicalities:  Even if you didn’t attend the workshops, I will still be expecting you to have correct MLA citations, a Works Cited page in MLA format, and to set up and follow up your quotes correctly.  See handouts if you are confused- there are hard copies in my room, or they are linked at the top of the Documents page.
2. Cohesion:  Make sure that parts 1, 2, and 3 are cohesive.  The difficulty or curiosity in part 1 should be clearly connected to the strategy you use in part 2, and both your difficulty/curiosity and the strategy should be clearly connected to your new understandings in part 3.

1. Documentation:  Make sure you have clear documentation of your strategy you used in Part 2.  Not sure how to do this?  Come talk to me!

HOMEWORK

1. FINAL Difficulty/Curiosity Paper:  Thursday, 10/26, Start of Class, PRINTED.