14 Recipe Project
Learning Objectives
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Practice the skills of organizing critical writing via an interdisciplinary project.
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Create multiple drafts of extended and short answer responses to prompts to correct and refine one’s writing.
Chapter & Discussion
This chapter includes a presentation that can be navigated in a classroom setting or independently. You can access the presentation via the link below.
Recipe Project: Organizing Critical Writing
Work through the different sections of the chapter and discuss ideas and topics as they arise. If you’re working independently, take notes instead. Notes and active discussion will be helpful in navigating this week’s assignments.
Overview
The Recipe Project is designed to practice organization in your critical writing by offering a detailed prompt with a clear purpose and audience.
In this project, you’ll select a favorite recipe of yours to share with the class. This should be something that you have cooked many times and don’t need a reference for. It can be a family recipe or something you personally like to cook.
It also needs to have a secret that makes it special in your own personal way.
Project Guidelines
You will create your project in the form of a Google Slides presentation, and meet the following criteria:
Create four content slides, titled Introduction, Preparation, Process, and Conclusion
In each slide, you will write a short paragraph that addresses the prompts in the later sections of this presentation
Include photos that are relevant to each slide
Introduction
Your introduction should address the following prompts:
1. Why is this recipe important or special to you?
2. What ingredients will I need to make it?
3. What is the secret that you use to make this dish unique and your own?
Discussion
The discussion portion of your recipe will have two slides: one for preparation and one for process.
Preparation
Your preparation slide should address the following prompts:
1. How should I prepare the ingredients so they are ready to cook?
2. Is there a specific way I should cut the vegetables?
3. Should any items be seasoned or prepared in a special way before cooking?
Process
Your process slide should address the following prompts:
1. What are the steps to cook this meal?
2. What should I know about the timing of these steps?
3. What mistake should I watch out for while completing these steps?
Conclusion
Your conclusion should address the following prompts:
1. Summarize how your secret made this recipe special or interesting
2. List some other ideas you’ve had that could add a twist to this dish.
To-Go Box
This project accomplishes everything that an essay does. Your recipe:
- Has a big idea and proves it
- Has an introduction that gives us the background info we need to understand your ideas
- Has a discussion that explores the idea and provides evidence
- Has a conclusion that summarizes your case and then thinks forward
In the future, it’s up to you to make sure your writing presents, defends, and proves your ideas.
Assigned Reading
Here are this week’s readings. Additionally, please read for your own personal enjoyment for 1/2 hour each day. This will be called your “Reading Zone” reading and it will coincide with many upcoming activities.
Planning and Organization by Thomas Frank (via Crash Course)
Assignment: Recipe Project
Note: I have attached the Project Guide to this assignment. Please follow all of the instructions and prompts in it to complete this assignment.
The Recipe Project is designed to practice organization in your critical writing by offering a detailed prompt with a clear purpose and audience.
In this project, you’ll select a favorite recipe of yours to share with the class. This should be something that you have cooked many times and don’t need a reference for. It can be a family recipe or something you personally like to cook.
It also needs to have a secret that makes it special in your own personal way.
Project Guidelines:
You will create your project in the form of a Google Slides presentation, and meet the following criteria:
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Create four content slides, titled Introduction, Preparation, Process, and Conclusion
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In each slide, you will write a short paragraph that addresses the prompts detailed in the Project Guide (our COMS lecture notes for this week)
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Include photos that are relevant to each slide
Assignment: Reading Zone Response (250 Words)
For Reading Zone, you must find a novel that is interesting to you and enjoyable to read. If you need help finding a Reading Zone book, please ask. Please read your Reading Zone book for a half-hour each day. On class days, there will be time in class dedicated to reading.
Create a response to this week’s reading that addresses the following prompts:
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In one paragraph, summarize what you’ve read this week
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In a second paragraph, make a prediction of what will happen later in your book. Why do you think so?
