Reflective Journal #3

10% (100 Points)
DUE: June 28, 2025 (11:59pm, EST)

In preparation for your essay composition, you will create several reflective pieces about the items you are either reading or viewing.

DIRECTIONS: Create TEN entries: Each entry should be roughly one paragraph (6-10 sentences) long, using the Case Study and Supplemental Materials intended for use in Essay Three. Each entry should discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay Three. Be sure to provide complete bibliographic information for each entry! DO NOT compose entries identical to those used for either Essay One or Essay Two!

  • TWO BOOK SOURCES:
    • One entry for Terry Ryan’s memoir, The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less:
      • discuss the book’s content, as a whole (what’s the book about?)
      • discuss your ideas for your paper, about this book
    • One entry for Derf Backderf’s graphic book, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio:
      • discuss the book’s content, as a whole (what’s the book about?)
      • discuss your ideas for your paper, about this book
  • FOUR Readily Available Materials SOURCES
  • FOUR Find It in KSU Libraries SOURCES

NOTE: You can lift sentences from your journal entries to put into your essay!

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: Watch both the documentary film, Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America and the movie, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. Incorporate these viewings into one additional journal entry.  10 points possible extra credit: if you already used one or both of these films, you may still do the extra credit, but you may not copy-and-paste from an earlier essay!

How to Submit Your Work to Me

You are not required to use KSU Google Docs for this assignment. You have several options:

  1. a series of at least ten entries, each one labeled for the item under review
    1. Via KSU Google Document (see “How to Use KSU Google”).
    2. As a well composed email (sent to clrobins@kent.edu).
    3. As a document (PDF or a word processor document) attached to an email sent to me (clrobins@kent.edu)
  2. a 1-3 minute video (in which you talk and/or show items, such as images, quotes, charts, graphs, etc.) that discusses at least 10 sources
    1. Via KSU Google Drive: upload it to your Drive account and then share it with me (clrobins@kent.edu)
    2. Via YouTube as an unlisted video
    3. Microsoft One Drive
    4. Dropbox
  3. a slide print presentation of at least ten slides (made with Google Slides, MS PowerPoint, or something similar, that combines printed words with images, quotes, charts, graphs, etc.)
    1. Via KSU Google Drive
    2. Microsoft One Drive
    3. Dropbox
    4. Convert the slides to a PDF and attach that to an email to me

Once I have received an email–either with the assignment attached or with notification that you have shared it with me–I will send you confirmation of receipt for that assignment, usually within 48 hours of receipt.

How Your Work Will Be Evaluated

Your assignment will be evaluated for clarity of thought expressed, and it must be thorough—fully responding to the topic. It must demonstrate critical thinking skills, particularly as they are tailored to the communication parameters of the medium/media under analysis (media literacy skills).

RUBRIC

An A Level Journalcontains ten well developed entries that demonstrate depth of thought in a coherent and concise manner. It is very clear what each entry is about. There are two entries from the Readily Available Materials, two entries from the Find it in KSU Libraries materials, and two entries specifically about The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is clear that the materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entries discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One.

A B Level Journalcontains ten fairly well developed entries that demonstrate depth of thought in a coherent and concise manner. It is mostly clear what each entry is about. There are two entries from the Readily Available Materials, two entries from the Find it in KSU Libraries materials, and two entries specifically about The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is clear that the materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entries somewhat discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One.

A C Level Journalcontains ten somewhat developed entries that demonstrate hints of depth of thought in a coherent and concise manner. It is somewhat clear what each entry is about, but there is a lot of vagueness. There are two entries from the Readily Available Materials, two entries from the Find it in KSU Libraries materials, and two entries specifically about The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is not clear that the  materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entries somewhat discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One.

A D Level Journalcontains ten under-developed entries that barely demonstrate any sort of depth of thought in a coherent and concise manner. The entries are vague. It is not clear that there are two entries from the Readily Available Materials, two entries from the Find it in KSU Libraries materials, and two entries specifically about The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is not clear that the  materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entries do not sufficiently discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One.

An F Level Journalcontains some entries that barely demonstrate any sort of depth of thought in a coherent and concise manner. The entries are vague. It is not clear that there are two entries from the Readily Available Materials, two entries from the Find it in KSU Libraries materials, and two entries specifically about The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is not clear that the  materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entries do not sufficiently discuss why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One. Bottom line: the journal is gobbledygook and empty rhetoric.