Ted-Talks
Free-Writes
PPT: Grammar
Outcomes
Wildcard
100

This is the number of Ted-Talks we have had over the semester

What is Three

100

The porposies of this free write was to pick a fun topic to get you in the habit of writing in a low stress setting

What is what animal am I

100

The FANBOYS acronym is an abbreviation for these specific words

What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
100

This is the number of outcomes that you need to write about for the final portfolio

What is seven

100

This was the number of Comp I classes at the UNM campus this semester

What is 103

200

According to the speaker (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) of the Ted-Talk about flow, he argues that repeated experiences of "Flow States" was the secret to this emotional state

What is happiness

200

This group activity Free Write had you compare and contrast this common high school writing structure versus this other writing structure

What are the five paragraph essay and the organic college essay

200

These are the four types of sentences (sentence moods)

What are declarative, exclamatory, imperative (command), and interrogative

200

These are repeating patterns that restrict the form, content, and style to a specific category

What are genres

200

The first iphone came out during this year

What is 2007

300

The main focus of Julia Dhar's Ted-Talk was about making steps towards building these types of interactions

What are constructive conversations

300

Concerning the lesson on AI that I gave, this was the topic of the Free Write activity that you all did

What is a comparison between what you and an AI version of yourself could be better at

300

This is how you can tell that a noun is an object rather than a subject in a clause

(Does not need to be exact but around the same idea)

What is [being acted upon or being the recipient of the main verb]. 

300

Under the outcome Writing as a Process name as many steps/approaches within this process.

What are planning, researching, prewriting, composing, assessing, revising, editing, proofreading, collaborating, and incorporating feedback

300

This literary term with the same name also refers to the attraction between molecules so that they stick and flow together

What is cohesion

400

In the Ted-Talk about procrastination, this was the name of the monster that both scared and stopped the procrastination monkey from distracting the mind

What is the panic monster

400

This is the topic of the first non-Ted-Talk free write that I assigned

What is writing about an experience in a memoir style about some event during your first week of school

400

This term refers to a convention of language that is determined by its use in a social or contextual situation

What are registers

400

This online website or university tool is a fantastic way to find research on any given topic

What is the UNM library database

Outcome: Research

400

This is the amount of words in the syllabus for this class

(Closest answer gets the point)

What is 5,563 words

500

In the Ted-Talk about flow, entering into the "flow state" required a balance between these two aspects in doing a task or activity

What are challenge (difficulty) and skill (ability)

500

According to the class survey about discourse communities these four were the highest voted in Sports, Books, Movies, and Music Celebrity

What are Football/Dance; The Hunger Games, Marvel, and The Weekend

500

What is the difference between a complex sentence and a compound-complex sentence

Compound-complex sentences require TWO independent clauses whereas complex sentences only require one.

(Very Fun Fact: They also both have a dependent clause)

500

According the the survey that among faculty dealing with academia, this was the number one skill that they valued as the most important one to learn

(This was the very first PPT that I gave)

What is being able to communicate orally and in writing; Outcome: Writing as a social act

500

1) To Follow or a Bank 2) Famous NY City + connecting architectural structure 3) King of Lemurs in Madagascar movie 4) Only duplicate name in class 5) Roaring astrological sign 

1) Nintendo Mascot 2) Country shaped like a boot 3) Small type of a car made by Mini 4) King of Judas in Bible 5) Actor Playing Hermione in Harry Potter

Who are Chase, Brooklyn Bridge (Brigit), Julian, Julia, and Leo


Who are Mario, Italy (Idaly), Cooper, Josiah, and Emma