TED Prep, Day 6: Critiques and Revision

Guidelines for RE-Submission of your Senior Thesis:
Once you have received your final grade for your paper, you will have the option to rewrite it based on my comments.  Your revised paper grade will REPLACE your original grade.  In order for your re-submission to be accepted, you must follow the guidelines below exactly. 

• Deadline:  ONE WEEK after the day you received your thesis back from me.
• Email/share with me your revised draft
• Submit your draft together with both your previous draft and the graded rubric (put your old draft and rubric in my inbox).
• Your final draft must demonstrate improvement between drafts
• I will not be commenting on revised drafts, and the revised grade will replace your original grade
• Important: Annotations on your final draft  are REQUIRED.  Feel free to highlight, underline, comment, or draw arrows to specific points made, new evidence used, new phrasing etc.  Your final grade depends in a large part on your ability to show growth between drafts in the categories I have outlined in the rubric.  Make it easy for me to see this growth with your annotations.  Even better if your comments are coded to rubric categories.  Annotate as you revise to make this easier on yourself!

Starter:  Review Cohort structure and expectations after Spring Break.  Make sure students understand:

1. When they have to be on campus
2. What the expectations and purpose of cohort groups are
3. What the expectations are if students are going to be out of town

TED Talk Critiques
Follow the protocol linked above.

Revision and Practice
When you finish your critiques for the day, work on revising your TED Talk and practicing.

HOMEWORK:
Practice your TED Talk!  We are looking for polished and professional here.  If your thesis had big structural/argumentation issues, make sure to fix them in your TED talk, even if you're not revising your paper!