Weekly Writing
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After every week of school, students must write a metacognitive and reflective paragraph (or more) about this course. The response must provide insight into their learning and the specific skills and traits developed through the work they have done.
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Requirements
These are the requirements for the weekly writing prompt. Students are expected to write their paragraph(s) according to the basic standards of English.

Responses must:
• Use specific, relevant, and sufficient evidence from your work
• Connect your evidence to course skills, traits, and knowledge
• Organize ideas in a cohesive and coherent manner
• Maintain an appropriate style of writing
• Follow the grammatical conventions of standard written English
Adapted from NYSED ELA standards

Responses must also:
• Be at least 360 characters in length
• Demonstrate an understanding of this instructional post
Adapted from course requirements
To demonstrate the length of a short paragraph, students are given Susan Bernofsky’s 375-character translation of the first paragraph of Kafka’s Metamorphosis:

When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect. He was lying on his back — which was hard, like a carapace — and when he raised his head a little he saw his curved brown belly segmented by rigid arches atop which the blanket, already slipping, was just barely managing to cling.
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The course calendar for each year breaks things down into weeks, panels, and units.
Weekly Writing
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Students are prompted here to write a metacognitive and reflective paragraph about their progress. They are reminded that the response must focus on performance and growth in specific skills and traits through specific assignments. 

Students are also reminded here that they can use this space to address any akratic lapses, which is our course's way of categorizing mistakes and lapses in judgment. That link is to a mini-unit on akrasia, procrastination, and metacognition. 

In other words, students are able to take responsibility for any missteps through this weekly writing. They can demonstrate their amenability, self-awareness, and character to make up for a lack of focus or progress during the week.
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