Learning Guide Unit 8 ENGL0101
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Learning Guide Unit 8
Overview
Unit 8: Dubliners and Finishing Strong
Topics:
- James
Joyce’s Dubliners
- What
did we learn?
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this Unit, you will be able to:
- Analyze
a story.
- Perform
a self-assessment.
- Engage
your fellow students in a discussion about literature.
Tasks:
- Peer
assess Unit 7 Written Assignment
- Read
the Learning Guide and Reading Assignments
- Participate
in the Discussion Assignment (post, comment, and rate in the Discussion
Forum)
- Make
entries to the Learning Journal
- Read
the Unit 9 Learning Guide carefully for instructions on the Final Exam
- Review
the Final Exam Review document in Unit 9
- Complete
and submit the anonymous Course Evaluation
Introduction
In this unit, you will pick a story from James Joyce’s Dubliners
collection and discuss it with the class. Your Learning Journal will
focus on a self-assessment that reflects about your learning experiences in
this course from day one to today.
Discussion Forum Unit 8
You are required to submit a substantial response to the
Discussion Assignment, which will be posted by your instructor in the
Discussion Forum below. A substantial response is one that stays on topic and
fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. If
your instructor requires a specific word count, it will be stated in the
assignment.
After you respond to the assignment, you are then required to
both give a rating and also leave a
significant comment (3-4 complete sentences) to at least three
(3) of your peers' responses, in order to receive full credit. Rate only
the substantial responses that contribute to the promotion of the discussion,
and not the comments of your peers.
Please review and follow the guidelines below for assessing your
peer's responses to the Discussion Assignment.
Discussion Forum Rating Guidelines:
10 (A) - Excellent,
substantial, relevant, insightful, enriching, and stimulating contribution to
the discussion. Also, uses external resources to support position where
required and/or applicable.
8 - 9 (B) - Good,
quite substantial and insightful, but missing minor details which would have
otherwise characterized it as an excellent response.
6 - 7 (C) - Satisfactory
insight and relevance, but required some more information and effort to have
warranted a better rating.
4 - 5 (D) - Limited
insight and relevance of the material; more effort and reflection needed to
have warranted a satisfactory grading.
0 - 3 (F) - Unsatisfactory
insight/relevance or failure to answer the question, reflecting a poor or
limited understanding of the subject matter and/or the guidelines of the
question.
If at any time you suspect that a post in this Discussion Forum
violates UoPeople's rules regarding plagiarism and/or any aspect of UoPeople’s
Academic Code of Conduct, please notify your instructor immediately.
Remember that your instructor will be reviewing responses,
ratings, and comments - and will adjust ratings if he/she believes that they do
not seem warranted or supportable.
Discussion Assignment
For this Discussion Assignment, you will choose one of James
Joyce’s short stories from the link provided in the Unit 8 Reading Assignment
and briefly summarize the story for the class. Include with your summary two or
three sentences about which story you read and why you either liked or disliked
it.
You are also responsible for replying with three or four
sentences to three different students and rating their main posts from 1 (poor)
to 10 (excellent) in the Rate box provided.
Learning Journal
For this Unit's Learning Journal, you will write a three or four sentence self-assessment that reflects on your journey in this course from day one to today. What did you learn? What would you change? What did you really like? How will you apply this to your life and your community?
I have learned a lot of valuable knowledge from the ENG101 course that I have acquired through the University of The People. I started to know about taking notes and sentence structures, then Pre-Writing Structures, and Paragraph Structures, and was taught about Descriptive and Illustrated Paragraphs, and the most challenging part was summarizing stories. Next, we were given material about Thesis Creation, Topic Sentences, and APA Citation. And continued by making 5 paragraph essays. We also learned about abstracts with critical reading, how to use the UoPeople Library and add sources to my essays, and then revising the essays that we had made. In essence, we learn from many mistakes and ignorance, we are always directed and guided by good instructors. Our instructors always motivate us, and that's what I really like. And finally, we get a lot of useful knowledge for the next learning during lectures here.