Eng 1B/1B Assignments & Grades/Critical Responses

CRs typically include assigned chapters and readings (see also ZTC Concepts and Course Content). Students are expected to:

1. Read the week's ZTC reading(s) or textbook chapter listed.

2. Choose a response from the Critical Response Menu

   • There is a rubric on the last page

   • Each response has directions, including what needs to be submitted to this assignment.

3. Craft a response covering all of the assigned readings listed.

4. Submit the response based on the directions to the group’s discussion board (pictures of hand created work are fine, but must be legible).

5. Comment on 1-3 posts with either warm feedback (something that was well done or was appealing) or cool feedback (something that could be improved).

   • Handout on warm/cool/hard feedback

Note: While it looks like a discussion board, it is not treated or graded as one. The grade is based on the student’s CR post and work. Item #5 (comments and feedback to group members), is to the benefit and advantage of students learning how to both do the assignment and master concept understanding. Discussions tend to be more robust for earlier, more difficult concepts, then fall off past unit 6 when concepts learned are easier.