Looping
In your daybook
Looping
In your daybook
1. Free-write (write non-stop for three minutes, not
worrying about editing or revising but focusing on
thinking out loud on paper) about what you have
just read.
2. Read back through what you have just read and find
the center of gravity (the ideas that seem weighty or
that are pulling you to them). Write those ideas at
the top of your next page.
3. Loop from those ideas (that is, write non-stop for
three minutes, not worrying about editing or
revising but focusing on thinking out loud on paper.
Cubing
1. Describe (What is Jefferson saying?)
2. Compare (Jefferson’s thoughts on labor and land
are like . . .)
3. Associate (When I think about Jefferson’s ideas
on the distribution of wealth, those ideas remind
me of . . .)
4. Analyze (How does Jefferson make his
argument—what are the components and how
do they relate to one another).
5. Apply (How are Jefferson’s ideas working right
now in the United States or other democratic
countries)
6. Argue (Disagree with Jefferson’s ideas).
1. Free-write (write non-stop for three minutes, not
worrying about editing or revising but focusing on
thinking out loud on paper) about what you have
just read.
2. Read back through what you have just read and find
the center of gravity (the ideas that seem weighty or
that are pulling you to them). Write those ideas at
the top of your next page.
3. Loop from those ideas (that is, write non-stop for
three minutes, not worrying about editing or
revising but focusing on thinking out loud on paper.
Cubing
1. Describe (What is Jefferson saying?)
2. Compare (Jefferson’s thoughts on labor and land are
like . . .)
3. Associate (When I think about Jefferson’s ideas on
the distribution of wealth, those ideas remind me of .
. .)
4. Analyze (How does Jefferson make his argument—
what are the components and how do they relate to
one another).
5. Apply (How are Jefferson’s ideas working right now
in the United States or other democratic countries)
6. Argue (Disagree with Jefferson’s ideas)