In this activity you are going to use what you learned reading “Yes / No / Okay, But” to engage your classmates in written conversation about “What Is It About 20-Somethings?”
Compose chunky responses listed below to your classmates’ posts here. Your responses should meet the expectations below.
Expectations:
- Respond to at least two different classmates’ posts.
- Use your response to deepen our collective understanding of and thinking about “What Is It About 20-Somethings?”
- Use the fundamental They Say/I Say structure in your paragraphs – which means using what you know about summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting to summarize what your classmates say before responding to their points. Look back to Entering The Conversation – 2 for review.
- Use templates from They Say/I Say to incorporate at least one “Yes” or “No” moment in each response.
- Use templates from They Say/I Say to incorporate at least one “Okay, But” moment in at least one response.
- Incorporate at least one quote from “What Is It About 20-Somethings” in at least one response.
- Use pivotal words to connect sentences.
- Use well-chosen signal verbs.
