[NOTE: to be used as a template for the last assignment in
your Assignment Sequence; please adjust, if you need to, to fit the parameters
of the Culminating Project in your sequence.]
Final Reflection
Learning Targets
SWBAT
o identify and describe an authentic audience for whom they produced their culminating projects
o identify and describe the parts of their identities that proved most important in shaping their projects
o identify the purposes they hoped to achieve with their projects
o reflect on how this intersection of audience/writer/purposes shaped their rhetorical choices
o self-evaluate the successes and problems they had with their projects
o narrate their individual contributions as collaborators in producing this project (if project was a group effort)
o demonstrate command of conventions and application of vocabulary
CCSS
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W10. Write routinely over extended time frames
(time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single
sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audience
Task
Write a personal essay about two pages long (1000 words), reflecting on your experience as a writer and active participant in this project, being sure to answer these questions (below). Please post your essay as a new googledoc page:
1. Whom did you visualize as your audience as you wrote? Identify both a group (ex. people who do not believe in climate change) and a person (ex. your uncle when he gets drunk at Thanksgiving)
2. What parts of your own identity/background were relevant to your approach to this topic? (ex. I don't know anything about fracking, and I'm slightly intimidated by my uncle, especially when he's drinking. But I really wanted to know more about the topic so that I could figure out for myself how I felt about the subject. You see, I'm really into skiing, and it's occurred to me that the season seems to be much shorter than it was when I was a kidÉAt the same time, I'm not sure anything can be done about climate changeÉblah blah )
3. What purposes did you hope to achieve? (ex. to inform myself, to share my findings with others, to enter the argument as an adult myself next ThanksgivingÉ and to do so, using humor, to ease the tensions and more suited to the occasionÉwith the possibility that I might actually persuade my uncle or at least get him to open his mind a little—or perhaps join forces with him)
4. How did this intersection of audience/writer/purposes shape your rhetorical choices? You need to identify at least three major choices you consciously made along the way.
5. How successful do you think you were in achieving your purposes? What are you most proud of?
6. What problems do you still see in your project that were less successfully resolved than you had hoped?
7. [for group projects] What did you specifically contribute to this project, including ideas that may or may not have found their way into the project, as well as actually parts you produced individually?
Rubric
1. You met all the requirements of the assignment.
2. Your reflection is both thoughtful and thorough, elaborating on each of the questions above, not just giving one-sentence answers.
3. You clearly understand how the intersection of audience/writer/purposes can shape rhetorical choices, narrating well what choices you considered and ultimately deciding upon.
4. Your self-evaluation is fairly accurate.
5. [for group projects] You contributed your fair share--and did so on time and with care and thoroughness—to the overall project.