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Youth Voices - where we encourage random acts of commenting kindness

Students working to become power users on Youth Voices pay as much attention to their comments as they do to creating their own discussion posts.

Both of these tasks ask the student to engage in an authentic conversation and to use valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence when writing a comment or a reply,

We encourage students to use (and go beyond) the Youth Voices guides for comments.

This process of engaged, sourced comments and replies models what it means to be a scholar in any discipline or a professional in a career.

P Time it should take to complete:
2 hrs

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Commenting - Connect and Dream

Make connections and point to what's important.

Search on Youth Voices to find several recent Discussions about:

an issue that you are also doing research on (for Text-dependent Resarrch)
or
a book you are also reading (for Independent Reading)

Use Comment Guides: General Discussion or Agree/Disagree to write several 5-paragraph comments.

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After you have completed your comments on Youth Voices, come back to this task on P2PU, and click the Post Comment button. Then add links to your comments on Youth Voices. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done.

Remember to use the comment guides--General Discussion or Agree/Disagree--to your best advantage. A comment on Youth Voices should be five paragraphs long so that you can do the four "moves" listed below.

However, we also encourage students to break out of the overly structured "sentence starters" of these guides and create your own kinds of response.

But again, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:

Speak directly to the student or teacher whose post you are responding to
.
Quote from the post or describe specific details (of an image or video).
Relate the work to your own experiences or to another text, image, video, or audio that this one reminds you of.
Be encouraging and generous with your remarks. End on a positive note.