1. Interpret Chua’s claims. For Chua, what factors define success and accomplishment?
2. Examine Chua’s claims. Does Chua believe in a meritocracy? Why or why not? (Similar to the first question in the prompt for Project 1) 
3. Compare Chua’s belief in meritocracy with Sandel’s belief in meritocracy. 
4. Critique Chua’s claims. Is there anything Chua may be hiding or distorting about success? (Similar to the second question in the prompt for Project 1) 
5. Make a claim that reflects your discussion. 
6. Put your discussion in paragraph form. 

1. Individually identify what the thesis statement is
2. Share what you think with your pod 
3. As a pod, decide what y’all believe the thesis statement to be 
4. Post what y'all identified the thesis statement to be. 

1. Is it too broad or too specific?
2. Is it arguable based on the available evidence?
3. Does the evidence support it?
4. Does it offer something new to the existing literature?
5. Does it respond to the prompt/assignment (since we don’t know, instead: does it respond to the puzzle/conflict that sets up the reading?)

• Structure
• Critical thinking about meritocracy and education 
• Thesis statements 
• Making claims 
• Supporting claims with reasoning and evidence 
• Concessions/rebuttals for counterpoints 
  
  

1. What counterclaims does Lake address? Does he offer concessions or rebuttals? Are they effective and why?

1. hook
2. Intro
3. Reasoning 
4. Reasoning
5. Concession
6. Evidence 
7. Reasoning 
8. Claim
9. Evidence 
10. Reasoning
11. reasoning
12. Evidence 
13. Counterpoint 
14. Reasoning 
15. Evidence 
16. Evidence 
17. Reasoning 
18. Evidence 
19. Conclusion
20. Conclusion 
21. Evidence 
22. Conclusion 
23. Conclusion 

• What grade would each of the students earned? 
• What exactly is being graded? 
• What do you like about our current contract grading system and what would you do to improve it? 
• Does it encourage or discourage you from learning the writing skills you need?

• Recall meritocracy. In 1-2 sentences, what exactly does the ideology of meritocracy value?
• Describe the role of labor in labor-based grade contract. Provide a 1-3 sentence summary of Inoue’s Ch 3.
• Critique the role of meritocracy in labor-based contract grades. In 2-5 sentences, how does meritocracy inform labor-based contract grades?  
• Argue a side. In 2-5 sentences, does labor-based contract grading solve issues surrounding meritocracy or does it perpetuate those issues? 

1. Standards-based assessment and high stakes testing: Accuracy of standards-based grading (Hardegree, Amity C.) 

2. This source relates to my topic because it analyzes whether or not standards-based grading is an accurate way of measuring academic achievement. It analyzes whether the solution to my problem for Project #3 is feasible and practical.
3. This source is reliable because it is a published study.

Using online interventions to deliver college student mental health resources: Evidence from randomized clinical trials

Meeting the mental health needs of today’s college student: Reinventing services through Stepped Care 2.0

RENT CONTROL AND HOUSING JUSTICE.

It is related to my topic of housing crisis that unequally impacts lower incomes because it discusses preconceived drawbacks of rent control. This source was created by someone affiliated with a university so it should be reliable.

Can Rent Controls Help Reduce the High Cost of Housing in High Demand Cities?

I believe that this source relates to my topic as La Jolla is a high demand city that rent control has the possibility to affect it positively (or negatively).

1. This source relates to my topic because it contains data about the graduation rates of students at four year public institutions who took more than four years to complete their degree.
2. I know it's a reliable source because it is peer reviewed and published by the National Center for Education Statistics.

1. This is a study that shows how students who are given extra resources are more likely to complete their degrees in a timely manner than those who do not.
2. This is reliable because it is a peer reviewed study.

1. Aligns with the main topic I will be writing about and is a first hand experience of how ap exam grading works, which is part of the problem I want to address.
2. It is peer reviewed and held at Giesel.

1. Talks about the flaws in assessing learning using multiple choice exams such as AP exams.
2. It is peer reviewed and accessed through UCSD library.

• discusses how schools define being exceptional will more likely be catered to define white and upperclass/elite students as gifted than any other social class.
• has reliable references, written by a professor of special education

• discusses the methods used to admit students into these programs and provides data 
• is peer reviewed with several primary source references

• a rebuttal point for my argument that I may find a solution for
• written by an expert in the field of psychiaty and behavioral sciences

Managing campus parking demand through course scheduling – an approach to campus sustainability.

A probabilistic analysis of two university parking issues.

• Does the poster communicate clearly and effectively your problem, its significance and your solution?
• Does the poster communicate your ethical position on the problem and solution?
• Does the poster adopt successful written and visual “cues” for intended audiences?
• Does the poster provide information to viewers in a way that is concise, easy to follow, and well-organized?
  
  

• Our first impression of this poster is that it is professional, organized, and visually appealing, and we would all stop to read it. 
• The poster employs the visual, linguistic and spatial. 
• Yes, the poster does clearly and concisely communicate the problem, its significance, and the proposed solution in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Yes, the poster does communicate an ethical solution to the problem because it discusses fairness, social inclusion, and equality.
• Yes, the poster does adopt successful written and visual cues for the intended audience because it is organized, all of the visuals are meaningful and informative, and the words are easy-to-understand and clear.
• As we mentioned above, this poster does provide information to viewers that are concise, easy to follow, and well organized.

• Our first impression of this poster is that it is not professionally organized, it is hard to tell what the topics are straight away and the visuals are distracting. We would not stop to read it
• It uses linguistic mode. And that is it. Even though many pictures, it is unrelated to the topic.
• It didn’t communicate to address the problem or solution. The layout is really strange and the title for each block is very unclear.
• Yes, it does communicate an ethical position. such as suggesting healthy, organic food for students, food free of charge, and fun and engaging element.
• No, the visual cues are the worst issue in this poster. Images are not helpful and titles are not clear.
• Although the poster provides some information, the poster has organizational and presentational issues that may distract the viewers. The information presented on the poster is not easy to follow.

• First Impression: Easier to look at, not as clumped 
• Modes: Linguistic Visual 
• The importance of the problem was not communicated with enough urgency. More elaboration needed for solutions. 
• Brings up personal/project point of view
• Written / visual cues are lacking, both make the problem seem lackluster. Written cues are not quickly seen, and visuals seem to have some significance. 
• Yes.