WORKING TOGETHER

Where we are at this point:

Your team is about to write the last segment of the JES. When this is submitted and I confirm receipt, you are finished!

Basic relationship with partner:

The two of you meet, face-to-face, at least once to complete this step. Both must be present at the time the step is emailed to me. You and your partner should be equally engaged in discussion.

Complete the work for this step on the spot, before saying good-bye to each other. If you are not finished you should arrange another meeting. You should NEVER leave work for one of the partners to complete. This is often a temptation either as an offer "I can finish it up from here so please go ahead to whatever you need to do ..." or a manipulation "Can you finish it now? I have to go to ..." AVOID this. If it happens to you, let me know, since I might look upon your grade more favorably. It is not easy to "wrap up" by yourself.

Steps for this assignment (workflow and check list)

BEFORE THE JES10 MEETING:

• Arrange a meeting. Regular year students: Consider starting with, ending with, or at least using, your RRR period. Which day you are assigned to is on the original team pairing list.
• Download Form-JES10, read it, and get an estimate of how long you think you might need to complete it. In the past, 3 hours has been a safe working window. Many teams finish before this but a few go beyond this. (However, I think they do so by choice, though, not because it was impossible to finish.)
• When the second member of a team has submitted his or her JES09 (ICE), I notify the team that it is now OK to exchange ICE (As we get close to the deadline I check about twice a day for submissions.) Immediately send your ICE to your partner, copying me. Use EA105_JES10A_groupletter studentnumber_LASTNAME_classname
• Read your partner's ICE and think about what might be areas of divergence and convergence that you will be able to write about.
• Your meeting will go much quicker if, ahead of time, you prepare your thesis statement for the form.

AT THE JES10 MEETING:

• Meet face-to-face, completing on the spot the form. Meeting details are important.
• Student A OR Student B submits the form as an attachment with his or her partner physically present. Send it to me copying your partner so I can confirm receipt by hitting "Reply All". Use EA105_JES10B_groupletter studentnumber_LASTNAME_classname
• Since either Student A or Student B can send the form, the subject line and the file title can be that of either Student A or Student B, whoever is doing this part of the work. There is no grade advantage to being the sender, but the sender is responsible for communicating with me after submission, if there is a problem. I obviously do not need two identical submissions and I do not want to constrain the team by designating which student will need to have a laptop at the meeting, although the meeting will probably go more smoothly if both have laptops. (You can use GoogleDocs to jointly work on content, for example, but keep it in paragraph units that you paste in, not the full document, so as not to corrupt my original MSWord doc.)

AFTER THE JES10 MEETING:

• WATCH FOR MY CONFIRMATION; YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED JES, OR THIS CLASS, UNTIL I CONFIRM RECEIPT.
• Then ... celebrate! You're done!!