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Choosing Who We Are

“Choosing Who We Are”
Notes for 3rd in a Series on Choices and Constraints
Anne Dalke & Wil Franklin
Oct. 9, 2008


I. Two weeks ago, Anne told the story of a student who’d said to her, “I don’t know how I’m doing.” We mused together about how we must be failing as teachers, if our students are looking to us to tell them “how they are doing,” and how giving too many instructions/ offering a review of what is "great"/giving grades can contribute to this effect. This is, of course, part of a larger social phenomenon, of asking experts (doctors, esp.) to tell us "how we are doing."

Notes Towards Day 12

Notes Towards Day 12 of Food for Thought

I. Sarah's survey

II. Welcoming Peter's class--

introduce yourself to one person you don't know
tell each other some unlikely fact...
(something interesting you'll do over break....?)

III. Review of upcoming writing/reading assignments:
By this morning: you should have posted your survey questions (in Week 6A)
(missing 3 of you; Sara: LOG ON)
By 5 p.m. tomorrow: e-mail us your self-evals

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Conversation, discourse, exchange, open-ended transactional inquiry

The trick is to focus not on what people can't agree on, nor on what they can agree on, but rather on issues/questions/problems that have the potential to generate ways of thinking that no one has thought before. 

More to come on where that thought came from, and what its useful for .... 

Notes Towards Day 13: Licking the Book of Salt

Notes towards Day 13
Critical Feminist Studies

I. welcome back:
remembering one another's names?
relevant gender-bending stories?
feminist tales from your travels?
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How a Feminist Should vote in this election

Sarah Sherman

10/05/08

Intro to Critical Feminist Studies

Professor Anne Dalke


How Should a Feminist Vote in this Election?

(Including bitter Hillary supporters)


Everyone has their own definition of feminism. Personally, I believe feminism is equality for women. I believe that women should have the same rights as men and that they shouldn't be discriminated against for being female.

Mitosis, Meiosis and Fertilization

Newer Version Available

The activity below has a new and improved version available as two separate handouts; this older version is available as an archive to teachers still using it. Please find the new version at: Mitosis - How Each New Cell Gets a Complete Set of Genes and Meiosis and Fertilization – Understanding How Genes Are Inherited.

 

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In the  hands-on activity, Mitosis, Meiosis and Fertilization, students use model chromosomes to simulate the processes of mitosis, meiosis and fertilization, and they answer questions designed to promote understanding of these processes. To demonstrate the principle that genes are transmitted from parents to offspring through the processes of meiosis and fertilization, students follow two alleles of a gene through gametes to zygotes as they model meiosis and fertilization. Students also learn how a mistake in meiosis can result in Down Syndrome.

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Paper 1: The Historical and the Literary-Representations of Dr. Luce and Dr. Money

The Historical andthe Literary: Representation of Dr. Money and Dr. Luce

 

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