{"id":93,"date":"2014-05-30T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T20:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:15:17","slug":"prior-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/prior-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This first post will be assigned on the first day of class (Thursday, August 28), and must be completed by Friday, August 29. Please post your answers in the &#8220;Comments&#8221; section below.<\/p>\n<p>1) Self-assess your prior reading, writing and researching experience in 3 paragraphs: a) How did you prepare reading assignments in high school? b) What types of writing assignments did you complete in high school (did you primarily write descriptive pieces, summaries, opinion papers, analytical papers, compare\/contrast, etc.)? How did you approach each assignment? That is, for each assignment did you: a) assess the task 2) evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses and knowledge of a given topic 3) plan your approach to complete the assignment 4) apply strategies to enact the plan and monitor your performance along the way 5) reflect on the degree to which your current approach to the assignment was working and adjust if needed? If so, how? What do you identify as the most challenging aspect of writing? c) How would you describe your researching experience? What types of sources have you used in the past? How did you gather pertinent information for your assignments?<br \/>\n2) What do you expect to learn in this First Year Seminar? Do you think this knowledge will help you in other courses and beyond? How?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This first post will be assigned on the first day of class (Thursday, August 28), and must be completed by Friday, August 29. Please post your answers in the &#8220;Comments&#8221; section below. 1) Self-assess your prior reading, writing and researching experience in 3 paragraphs: a) How did you prepare reading assignments in high school? b) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinamericanstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}