Three-Acts Worksheet
Complete and post to your website the worksheet attached below as a means of thinking through the contours of your course. You may modify the worksheet so that it includes more “acts” if you plan on having more than three major units/modules in your course. See the hints below for ideas about what to put in each box.
Objectives: What do you want students to learn how to do in this act?
Builds on: What aspects of students’ prior knowledge about writing and reading are you leveraging in this act. If it is the first act, what expectations do you have about the abilities and knowledge students from their prior writing experiences? If second act or beyond, how will students use what they have learned in the previous act?
Activities: What are the low-stakes writing activities with which you plan to scaffold the high-stakes assignment for this act?
Assignment: What do you envision as the culminating performance for this act?
Reflection: What questions can you ask students that will enable them to reflect on their work in this act using key terms?
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