Assignment for Saturday, 05-14-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists (the last time I'll probably call you this):

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, May14, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section E (Reading aloud) of our third exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm passage. Before you left the exam, I handed you a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

(2) Complete a peer review form for each member of your team (not including yourself). Instructions and a link to the electronic peer review form are available on our course website.

NOTE: If you fail to submit any or all reviews, you will forfeit the chance to earn peer review points this time around.

NOTE: Peer reviews are anonymous. You will receive copies of the review forms that you have sent to me. I, in turn, will anonymize all of the data and send an individual report to each team.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 04-02-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section E (Reading aloud) of our second exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm passage. Before you left the exam, I handed you a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

NOTE: There's a link to a YouTube video of me reading the practice midterm passage on our Resources page, if you'd like a high-end idea of what a reading might be.

(2) Complete a peer review form for each member of your team (not including yourself). Instructions and a link to the electronic peer review form are available on our course website.

NOTE: If you fail to submit any or all reviews, you will forfeit the chance to earn peer review points this time around.

NOTE: Peer reviews are anonymous. You will receive copies of the review forms that you have sent to me. I, in turn, will anonymize all of the data and send an individual report to each team.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Assignment for Saturday, 02-27-16

Dear Elementary Hellenists:

By 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, please do the following:

(1) Complete Section D (Reading aloud) of our first exam. Call my campus voicemail with your perfected reading of the midterm passage. Before you left the exam, I handed you a sheet with full instructions and a copy of the passage to mark up.

NOTE: There's a link to a YouTube video of me reading the practice midterm passage on our Resources page, if you'd like a high-end idea of what a reading might be.

(2) Complete a peer review form for each member of your team (not including yourself). Instructions and a link to the electronic peer review form are available on our course website.

NOTE: If you fail to submit any or all reviews, you will forfeit the chance to earn peer review points this time around.

NOTE: Peer reviews are anonymous. You will receive copies of the review forms that you have sent to me. I, in turn, will anonymize all of the data and send an individual report to each team.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

Team observations on Tuesday, 02-16-16

Dear Hellenists,,

On Tuesday, February 16, instructional team will be observing your teamwork during class.

During our observations, we'll take notes on how your team interacts. Specifically, we'll be focused on the following questions:

• Is everyone engaged?
• Are questions being addressed by the team, where appropriate?
• Are explanations being offered along with answers?
• Is the team working together and leaving no one behind?
• Is the team discussing the answer key and any mistakes that were made?

We would appreciate your team interacting as it normally does so that you and your peers can receive as honest an evaluation as possible. We also know that this is hard to do, but we want you to try.

The goal of this evaluation is twofold:

(1) We want to offer your team feedback so it can operate most effectively.

(2) With the first official peer review fast approaching, we want our feedback to enable any teams with potential problems to turn them around.

Note that the evaluation your team ultimately receives will be cast in general terms (that is, no names will be named) and no part of this evaluation will impact anyone's grade. There are no official points at stake here, only feedback from the instructional team.

If you have any questions about the upcoming peer review, please consult the following:

• The peer review section of our Policies web page; and
• The CG 110 peer review form, which you'll be filling out after the first exam.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC