1. Looking back over the memoirs, essays, films, discussions, etc., identify and define the nature of linkages among specific theoretical concepts and specific memoirs and films.
2. Analyze what you have learned as the result of your work in the course.
3. Define and describe ways in which you will be able to apply what you have learned to your future work as a teacher, student, and human being.
4. Assess the extent to which you have fulfilled requirements for the grade selected in your contract. Offer your rationale for the grade for which you've made a contract, citing specific posts that you've made (list identifying information for each post, such as forum in which it was posted, day/time of post, content, etc.).
Your reflections paper is intended to be personal as well as critical, in other words, an autocritical paper; that is, a paper that is both personal (autobiographical) and analytical (critical).
In your final reflections paper, I would appreciate your analyzing the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective dimensions of your work in the course. I suggest that, before writing your paper, you reread your posts and responses to others' posts; feel free to quote excerpts from your posts in your reflections paper.
You want to maintain topical coherence, connecting ideas to one another and not jumping randoming from one idea to another. You will want to have paragraph divisions with general points and specific illustrations. You do not, however, have to prove a point or take a certain side. Imagine the participants in our "Survivors' Stories" class as your intended audience: that means you do not need to offer any story and/or film plot summary. If you refer to online articles, please paraphrase the author's thesis and conclusion, but do not summarize the entire article. Rather, keep your focus on making connections between and among primary and secondary source materials.
TECH MATTERS:
Please run spell check on your reflections essay so that it is in
polished form when you save it in MS Word. Please provide URLs
and bibliographic citations for secondary sources noted in your paper.
Then, please send your final reflections paper in an attachment to an e-mail
message to everyone in our group. Plan to submit your
final course reflection/analysis paper (via e-mail attachment) no later than
8 p.m. CDT on July 27, 2008.