Reflective Journal #3

5% (50 Points)
DUE: April 11, 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.

PART II DIRECTIONS: Create TEN entries. Each entry should be roughly 3-5 sentences long. The materials have been selected for use in Essay One. The entry discusses why and how you plan to use the materials for Essay One. Be sure to provide complete bibliographic information for each entry!

  • One for each source that is being used that from the Readily Available Materials of any Case Study or Supplemental Materials. You may use the same sources that you used in either Essay One or Essay Two, but the entry for how the source will be used must be new (two sources, total).
  • One for each source that is being used from Find it in KSU Libraries of any Case Study or Supplemental Materials. You may use the same sources that you used in either Essay One or Essay Two, but the entry for how the source will be used must be new (two sources, total).
  • One for each source that is being used from Find it in KSU Libraries on your own. In other words, these sources must be limited in access to KSU Libraries, and they cannot be sources that I’ve already listed on the case study page (four sources, total).
  • One for Terry Ryan’s The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less: each discussing ideas for your paper. This entry may borrow from your Journal #1 entry, but it must be mostly a new entry.
  • One for Derf Backderf’s Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio: each discussing ideas for your paper. This entry may borrow from your Journal #1 entry, but it must be mostly a new entry.

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

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES: you may take both opportunities.

  1. How’s it going? Teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin, and just as I give you feedback for your writing, I’d like a little feedback for my instruction. This information will help me to help students succeed in the class. Let me know how you’re feeling about your learning experience with me by taking this Ascend Survey   (available April 14-27). I will know that you have taken the survey, but not which student gave which answers. This is worth 5 points extra credit toward your entire course grade. NOTE: The questions on this survey are identical to the questions on the first and second survey. The point is to see how your mind might have changed about your class experience(s).
  2. 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 Journal contains 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 Journal contains 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 Journal contains 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 Journal contains 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 Journal contains 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.