Why? Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on their contributions to the opening exercise and class discussions, participation in group work and presentations, and creative, accurate homework posters.
While much of the freshmen curriculum is focused on learning concepts and processes, Discovery guides students through the exploration of what it means to be a creative thinker; homework prompts and introductory materials are interwoven with international development issues to expose the students to the challenges and opportunities that fuel D-Lab's mission and goals.
If it's creative writing homework, make sure you write an interesting and descriptive story.
When I had creative-writing homework for English class, I would fashion long poems, sweatily pressed into unlined paper with a Bic ballpoint pen, about John Taylor's windswept locks of hair and steamy eyes.
Its protagonist, Roger, is a cipher: "He enjoyed all the things you like doing, to play and have fun," is how he is characterized, in a description that would barely satisfy a fifth grade E.L.A. teacher grading a creative-writing homework assignment.
Yet tragically this was the most interesting thing that had happened to me all week, so it found itself in my creative writing course homework.
You can get creative, do some homework, talk to fellow night owls, or just hang out in your living room and read a magazine.
In fact my aim now is to get my daughter to create something from all these bits and pieces and to send it into school in the guise of 'creative homework'.
Why? Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on their responses to the initial exercise, participation in class discussion and group research, and creative float designs for homework.
