Week #11: Testing your Definitions against Scenarios

Week #11:  Testing your Definitions against Scenarios:

                We will do this week’s blogging the same way we did last week’s; post your answer as a comment under the topic post I have created, and also on your own page.  That way, people who share your topic can find see your post, then find your page to comment on it.  So, I have added some scenarios to each topic post (go back to the topic post that you commented on last time and reread it, because the scenarios have been added right into my original topic prompt).

                BY WED:  Please respond to the scenario based on the criteria for your definition that you are using in your paper.  This is exactly like the exercise from class on Friday (what is “courage”? and the burning building scenarios) but now you will be working through scenarios based on your paper topic and your own definitions.  Remember back to our definition of “courage” on Friday on the board, and the ways that we ended up adding some criteria to it, or even qualifying some other criteria.  This exercise is designed to help you test out your definition and criteria and adapt them if necessary to make your argument stronger.

                BY FRI: comment on three classmates’ posts.  Create a full paragraph in which you engage with some of their ideas from their scenario responses.  Agree, Disagree, a little of both, add more thought to what they have already commented.  Remember to be respectful of ideas, be relevant (stay on topic) and constructive (thoughtful in ways that promote more brainstorming).  Your help with brainstorming is a sort of peer review of their ideas, which are designed to help them think more deeply about their definitions in their papers.

                Thank you for submitting awesome scenarios for the blog discussion this week.  I couldn’t post them all, so sorry if yours didn’t get picked, but on the other hand, if I had posted them all, there’d be a lot more work involved.  J