Legos Day Two

Take time now to revise your Lego directions and print two fresh copies.

When all are ready:

Open up The Bedford Guide to page 26. Look at the graphic at the bottom of the page, which is one version of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Thinkwrite :

Bloom's Taxonomy is a way of classifying or naming the ways we think. Copy these down in your daybook:

Reading the directions-
Assembling the parts-
Writing/reacting on the directions-
Filling out the feedback green sheet-

How many ways can you think at once? Next to each activity you copied down, describe HOW you think as you do it, using the terms listed in Bloom's Taxonomy.

You build two again.

Rhetorical Analysis review:  Let's look at our textbooks.

Now we look at Kickstarter.com. Some projects I've found....#1 and #2 and #3 and #4.

Homework:

1. Be sure to do the homework under "Day One" below.

2. Prepare the final revision of your Lego directions. Bring all green sheets and sets of directions, with one copy of the final version to hand in on Tuesday.

3. Go to Kickstarter.com . Look around and find the answers to the following questions (write the answers in your daybook):

1. What kinds of projects can be put up on Kickstarter?

2. Who sets the money goal and deadline?

3. What happens if the money goal is NOT pledged before the deadline?

4. What’s the MOST a project has ever been pledged?

5. How many total projects have been funded at Kickstarter?

6. How do you see projects that have expired/failed (this may take clicking around)?

 Figure out how to use the search tool. You can put in a term that interests you and see what happens (“tractor,” “hockey,” “tool”).

7. Find 5 projects that interest you. List their A) title, B) the money goal, C) closing date, and D) the pledge amount and reward that you would choose.

8. Now go deeper. Pick 2 projects. Find one that was a success, and one that failed to meet its goal. You’ll do a rhetorical analysis of each. This means making a chart of audience/ purpose/ genre/ style/ content for each. You should spend at least a half page on each for the style/content discussion. Simply describe what you see each project doing in those areas. Pay special attention to differences between the two.