Scavenger Hunt: The Details

Purpose of Exercise – To expand your understanding of the key terms that inform your writing.

Description – In groups, you need to complete the following hunt and post the responses to blogger (you will be creating a new post for this – like we looked at together in class. It should be one per group). 

Suggested Time – 30-35 minutes, plus about 20-25 min reflection to bring it all together and post. So, this should be about 60 min, give or take a few minutes.

DUE by the end of normal class time.

The Hunt:

**Note: you must take pictures with one member of your groups cell phone to capture what you find.  

Please “find” the following items—

1. 3 different examples of rhetorical situations found in at least two different locations on campus; document these by taking pictures with your group members. Make sure you are working from an accurate definition of rhetorical situation. At least one image needs to have all group members in the picture.

**Note: remember to think outside the box. Try not to get all the same type of rhetorical situation just in different locations. 

2. Find one person on campus to accurately define genre and audience; document this by video recording them (please make sure they are ok to be video recorded, first!).

3. Find an example of an “old” genre and  “new” genre. Document by taking a picture with your group members.

4. Find two examples of genres in action in other words find two examples of people working in/with/around genres. Document by taking pictures (these must be different than #3). 

5. Predict a new genre based on your understanding of genres and either draw a representation of it, act out a representation of it, or capture a representation of it with your camera.  

The Reflection (bringing it all together)—

To post all of this to blogger, feel free to make a collage or two of the pictures to help with spacing. Feel free to be as creative and critical as you need to be to complete the hunt and to then compile it all together.

Questions for the reflection:

How do you define each key term?  

Why might the scavenger hunt be a useful activity in learning about key terms? In learning about yourself as a writer?

How, if at all, does your definition of writing keep expanding?

DUE by the end of normal class time.

**I should not see overlap between groups (i.e. I should not see the exact same thing from groups.).