Journaling Assignment

This assignment involves identifying concepts in several environments that relate to the topics addressed throughout this course. The information will involve recording incidences in your daily lives (in the form of conversations, discussions or comments from the people with whom you interact, things observed or overheard as you go about your daily life, or things you observe in social media, television or entertainment ) and your reflections about these. This assignment requires you to begin to make a conscious effort to take notice of incidents that make you think about the culture surrounding privilege and prejudice.

You will make five (5) entries during the semester that illustrate your recognition of “incidents” as you go about life on a daily basis that make you think about our class concepts in some way. These “incidents” should come from several sources including: a discussion between people (including yourself or not), something you notice in a public place, at a social event or on your social media accounts, or something in the form of entertainment (tv, movies, music) Your entries should relate to five (of the six) DIFFERENT topics we cover in class (sexism, racism, classism, ageism, ableism, or heterosexism.) These should be recorded by using the following format (You must use these headings in your paper):

Date:

BRIEF Description of Incident:

Two ways this incident relates to class material: In order to receive a “good,” you must make a clear connection to the class material by using a term/concept and giving a description of WHY this exemplifies that incident.

Insight gained from Incident (A short paragraph (minimum, five sentences) discussing what you thought or felt after thinking about the incident.

*While you might not be in the position to type it out at the time it occurs (in which case you may want to write down a couple of notes about it to help you remember the main points), these entries must be typed out (12 point font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins) and submitted to Bb as one assignment. (5 points each/25 points)

PLEASE ATTACH (Copy and Paste) INDIVIDUAL GRADING RUBRIC FOUND BELOW TO THE END OF YOUR PAPER BEFORE SUBMITTING on Bb! (3 point deduction if it is not attached)

INDIVIDUAL GRADING RUBRIC FOR CLASS CONCEPT JOURNALING ASSIGNMENT

25 POINTS TOTAL

1. Journal Entries: (25 points total; 5 points each)

Entry #1:

Content: ____(good, 3) ____(adequate, 2) ____(poor,1) Total

Structure: ____(follows format, 1) _____(does not follow format, 0)

Mechanics: ____(no major grammar errors or typos, 1) ____(contains errors, 0) ____

Entry #2:

Content: ____(good, 3) ____(adequate, 2) ____(poor,1) Total

Structure: ____(follows format, 1) _____(does not follow format, 0)

Mechanics: ____(no major grammar errors or typos, 1) ____(contains errors, 0) ____

Entry #3:

Content: ____(good, 3) ____(adequate, 2) ____(poor,1) Total

Structure: ____(follows format, 1) _____(does not follow format, 0)

Mechanics: ____(no major grammar errors or typos) ____(contains errors, 0) ____

Entry #4:

Content: ____(good, 3) ____(adequate, 2) ____(poor,1) Total

Structure: ____(follows format, 1) _____(does not follow format, 0)

Mechanics: ____(no major grammar errors or typos, 1) ____(contains errors, 0) ____

Entry #5:

Content: ____(good, 3) ____(adequate, 2) ____(poor,1) Total

Structure: ____(follows format, 1) _____(does not follow format, 0)

Mechanics: ____(no major grammar errors or typos, 1) ____(contains errors, 0) ____

Deductions: Late (-3 for each weekday after due date); Repeating topics (-2 for each entry that contains duplicate class concept)

TOTAL ________