Jims Small Group

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Jims Small Group

• WID leader Jim Wilson
• Faculty S. Powell, J. Ross, G. Tapper, F. Wang
• Writing Fellow M. Szupica-Pyrzanowski

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• Occupational Therapy
• Sherrell Powell

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Low Stakes Assignment

• HEALTH REFLECTION
• Pick one aspect of your health that you would
  like to change.
• Hand in a one- two page typed paper and address
  the following aspects.
• Why would you like to change
  this aspect?
• Describe the obstacles that you
  expect to encounter.
• Describe the strategies you can use
  to change your health.
• Discuss the changes that you
  expect.
• You will be asked to research this aspect as part
  of your health report.

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High Stakes Assignment

• HEALTH REPORT GUIDELINES  
• Using the topic of What aspect of your
  health would you like to change?
• Select a reading topic that was reported in a
  recent edition of a magazine (e.g. Time,
  Psychology Today), or a newspaper during the past
  six months. A copy of the article must be
  submitted by March 22nd for approval.
• Perform a web-based search for an additional
  article on similar topic. This additional
  article should be from a peer reviewed journal
  and bring to light additional information and/or
  varied viewpoint.
• Attach a copy of both articles to your paper
  prior to submitting your report.
• The peer reviewed article should contain 2-3
  pages of text

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High Stakes Assignment

• 5. Report Format Label each section of the
  paper as follows.
• Name, source, and date of articles (2005-2006)
• Summary of each of the two articles2 pages
  minimum total.
• Discussion of similarities/differences of the
  authors viewpoint1 page minimum
• Your opinion of the subject and how this will
  affect life in the year 2005-2006
• 1 page minimum
• 6. Your report should be a maximum of 5 type
  written pages. Grammar and spelling count.
  Please keep a copy of your report for your
  records.
• 7. Reports submitted after May 24th will
  not be accepted.
• 8. Readings to consider for report smoking,
  obesity, drug dependency, stress, violence and
  abuse

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• Physical Therapy
• Jacqueline Ross

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Assignment 1

• (2 points)
• Take a moment to reflect on your first week in
  the clinic. Take two issues, aspects, or
  situations that surprised you, were unexpected,
  or made you feel uncomfortable. Write about
  these issues in a one to two page paper. Make
  sure that your paper is either typed or printed
  but DO NOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF. I will collect the
  papers at the beginning of the next class.

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Assignment 2

• (4 points)- The goal of this exercise is to
  enable you to become more skilled at discussing
  patient diagnosis with different audiences.
• Consider one patient who you are working with or
  observing in the clinic. You have been asked by
  a registered nurse who is working with your
  patient for a detailed description of the pts
  diagnosis (it has been okayed by the pt). Please
  choose a diagnosis that we had discussed in any
  previous PTA Courses. Write in medical
  terminology how you would define the patients
  diagnosis to the nurse. This task should be no
  longer than one page in length. Make sure that
  you use accepted medical terminology and medical
  abbreviations in your discussion.
• Your patients wife has now asked you to do the
  same. Please now write how you would describe
  the same diagnosis but now your description needs
  to be in lay terminology (not medical
  terminology). Please keep your discussion no
  longer than one page in length.  

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Assignment 3

• (4 points) The goal of this exercise is to
  enable you to become more skilled at discussing
  PT Interventions with different audiences.
• Continuing with the same patient as the previous
  assignment now discus the PT Interventions..
  Again, this needs to be discussed with each of
  the two different audiences
• A registered nurse
• A family member of the patient
• The submission should be no longer than one page
  in length.

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Assignment 4

• (20 points) The goal of this exercise is to
  continue to improve your skills in communication
  and to facilitate an ease of transition when
  talking to the medical community and the lay
  public. It is also meant to provide some self
  reflection.
• Continue with the same patient and make all
  necessary corrections as noted on your paper. Now
  answer to the following
• Which method of communication was easier for you
  and why?
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• Why is it important to be able to make this
  transition?
• How could you help someone else to make the
  transition more easily and to feel more
  comfortable with both methods of communication?
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• What would you do differently if this were an
  actual clinical situation?

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Grading guidelines for Final Paper
(30 course grade)

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  Grade Comments
• Handed in on time (4 pts)
• Responded to assignment
• well (20 pts)
• Accurate use of medical
• terminology/abbreviations(30pts)
• 15pts for diagnosis
• 15 pts for intervention
• Appropriate use of lay
• language (spelling,grammar
• audience) (30 pts)
• 15pts for diagnosis
• 15pts for diagnosis
• Clear explanation of
• reflections (16 pts)

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• General Physics
• Frank Wang

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First Digit of 2n

• Consider the first digits of the numbers 2n 1,
  2, 4, 8, 1(6), 3(2), 6(4), 1(28), 2(56), 5(12),
  1(024), 2(048), 4(096), . Does the digit 7
  appear in this sequence? Which digit appears
  more often, 7 or 8?

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Student Writing Sample

• Being limited by my lack of patience, as well
  as by calculators computing power, I decided to
  make the computer do my job. I wrote a Java
  program
• It was not clear for me though when sevens
  took over. In order to figure it out, I modified
  my program yet again to create Excel-friendly
  comma separated data output for power values from
  0 to 10000. Using Excel I generated the following
  graph

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Histogram
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First Digit Phenomenon (2)

• Compare 2n distribution with (a) the first digits
  of the population figures of the worlds
  countries, or (b) the first digits of the numbers
  representing the area of the worlds countries.
  

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World population information
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First digits of population figures v 2n
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• English
• Gordon Tapper

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How to Keep a Critical Thinking Journal

• 1. One of the main objectives of this
  course is to help you become a more perceptive
  and critical reader. By the end of the course,
  you should be able to read a passage from a text
  and ask yourself a number of questions about that
  passage that will help you better understand the
  complexities of the text as a whole. One of the
  best ways to improve your ability to read with
  intelligence and understanding is to reflect in
  writing about what youve read. By writing about
  your reactions to reading assignment for the
  course, you will get in the habit of thinking
  critically about the text. In addition to
  helping you gain a better understanding of these
  works, keeping a journal will help prepare you
  for the courses essay assignments and exams.
• 2. Journal assignments are due in class
  once in almost every week. See the syllabus for
  a detailed list of dues dates. For each journal
  entry, you are to write one to two pages
  (approximately 500-600 words, though you are free
  to write more) in which you respond to the
  reading assignment for that class. In some cases
  (especially at the beginning of the semester), I
  will hand out a specific question that you should
  answer. As the semester progresses, you will
  have the freedom to write your journal entries
  about any aspect of the text that you find
  interesting or confusing.

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How to Keep a Critical Thinking Journal

• 3. Journal entries must be typed
  (double-spaced, one-inch margins). Please
  include the following information at the top of
  your pageYour name, LIB200, the date, journal
• 4. In most cases, class will begin with a
  discussion of what youve written in your
  journals. Please be prepared to share what
  youve written and what youve thought about the
  reading with the rest of the class.
• 5. Journals will be collected on the date
  they are due and returned to you within one or
  two classes.
• 6. Individual journal entries will not be
  graded. However, I will make brief comments on
  them to let you know if you are making the best
  use of this important aspect of the course. Keep
  in mind that putting in the effort to keep a
  thoughtful journal will help prepare you to
  perform well on the essay assignments.
• 7. At two points during the semester, you
  will submit all of your journals in a folder. At
  this time, you will write a two-page statement in
  which you reflect on what you have learned by
  keeping the journal. You will receive more
  detailed information about this aspect of the
  journals at a later date. You will receive grades
  on these two journal portfolios that will be
  included in your overall grade for the course.

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Journal Assignment 3, Due March Journal
Assignment 3 Night (47-120)

• As with all of your journals, you should write
  1-2 pages (typed) in response to the question
  below. Please follow the format described in the
  handout about keeping your journal.
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• Please write your journal in response to the
  following question After arriving at the
  Buchenwald concentration camp, Elie is
  temporarily separated from his father. He then
  becomes ashamed of himself for secretly hoping he
  will not find him (106). Why does the idea of
  abandoning his father occur to Elie? Does Elies
  relationship with his father help him survive, or
  is it a burden that threatens his survival?
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• Study Questions Please think about these
  questions as you read, but you are not required
  to write about these questions. We will discuss
  some of these issues in class.
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Journal Assignment 3 Night Study Questions

• 1. Why does the execution of the youth
  from Warsaw (62) affect Elie so strongly even
  though he has witnessed the deaths of so many
  other prisoners?
• 2. What happens to Elie during the prayer
  service for the Jewish New Year (which is called
  Rosh Hashanah)? (66-9)
• 3. What is the effect of the selections
  upon Elie and other prisoners? (69-73) 
• 4. How does Elie survive the evacuation
  march from Auschwitz? How would you describe
  this experience? (85-90)
• 5. What does Elie forget to tell Rabbi
  Eliahou? (91) Why does this incident make such an
  impression upon Elie? Compare this
  incident to what Elie witnesses in his train
  wagon
• while on the way to Buchenwald?
  (101-2)
• 6. How does Elie react to his fathers
  death? (111-12) Why is this reaction both
  reasonable and disturbing?  
• 7. How does Elies attitude change after
  his fathers death? (113-15)

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Midterm Journal Reflection 1

• General Guidelines
• As you know, the purpose of your journal entries
  is to improve your ability to think critically
  about the texts you have been reading in the
  course. In order to think critically about what
  you read, you should
• formulate questions that will lead you to a more
  thorough understanding of the complexities of the
  text
• consider the issues raised about genocide by the
  text from many different perspectives
• evaluate the actions and thoughts of the
  characters and/or the views of the narrator
• analyze the way in which the author has presented
  the story so as to develop a deeper understanding
  of genocide
• support your opinions about the text with
  specific textual evidence
• communicate your questions about and
  understanding of genocide effectively through
  writing, speaking, and discussing

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Midterm Journal Reflection 2

• Specific Assignment For your midterm
  reflection, you should
• Read all of your journal entries (1-5).
• Write a 1-2 page (minimum 400 words) statement
  (typed) in which you
• explain how your ability to think critically
  about the texts has developed since the beginning
  of the semester
• explain what you have learned about genocide from
  the texts through your journal entries
• evaluate your journals that is, explain whether
  you think you are using the journals in a way
  that helps develop your understanding of the
  complex causes and effects of genocide
• offer suggestions for how you might improve your
  ability to read with greater understanding
• make any other comments about your journals that
  you think are relevant.
• Collect your 5 journal entries (with my comments
  on them) along with your 1-2 page statement in a
  folder and submit the entire folder on the due
  date.

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• Thank you !