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1. ESL Experience Reflection

 * Write 1-2 paragraphs based on your notes you took from your conversation with the ESL student about his/her expectations for a teacher if he/she were sending a son or daughter to school in the U.S. Summarize what the student told you and what you learned from the conversation. (Do this in your googledoc journal).

**2.** //**Holler If You Hear Me**//

 * We're going to do double-duty with //Holler// this week and use it as a context for beginning to think about student engagement. "Engagement" is a concept that is heavily assessed on the TPA and is important for you to have a clear understanding of. Relating to engagement, the TPA asks two questions which you answer through your lesson plans, commentaries, and videos of your teaching.
 * How does the candidate actively engage students in developing students’ abilities to _?
 * How does the candidate elicit and monitor students’ responses to deepen their abilities to ?
 * In particular, the TPA looks for four aspects of engagement: active, intellectual, connected, and rigorous.
 * **Active** engagement (vs. passive)
 * **Intellectual**ly engaged (vs. superficial and procedural)
 * **Connected** (vs. disconnected from students’ prior knowledge and experience)
 * Engaging with content in challenging ways that represent the **rigor** of the discipline (vs. fun, easy)
 * **Before reading**: Consider these four ideas by filling out the table on page 1 of the document below. Copy and paste it to your googledoc journal. Label it "Module 6"
 * **Read,** pp 99-118. As you're reading, look for examples of these four concepts. You will be asked to provide two examples from the text for each of the engagement characteristics: active, intellectual, connected, rigorous. A template is on page 2 of the document below. Copy and paste into your journal.

**3. Beginning to think about writing:**

 * Read chapter 8 in Zwiers. As you're reading think about how this chapter applies in your subject area.
 * After reading: Design a 15 question quiz that you could give to assess a reader's understanding of major ideas from this chapter. For your target student, imagine someone who is preparing to teach your subject area. (2 essay questions, 5 multiple choice, 5 short answer, and 3 whatever-type-of-question-you choose.) Include the quiz as part of your "module 6" journal.