099L, Fall 2006 Unit 5 Group Activity, Due: Nov. 2 1. Together with your group, you will first choose an academic lecture offered through the University of California at Berkeley to work with. These are freely available online at http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/, and you can also find a link to this page on our WebCT course. I would recommend picking a lecture that’s in your field of interest or your academic field. Some of these lectures are long—remember, they are lectures given in real classes, so they will likely be an hour or longer. However, since you’re in a group you can easily split this up. For example, each person could analyze 15 minutes of the lecture. 2. After you’ve chosen the lecture, I’d like your group to listen to it and then draw up a microstructure outline of the lecture by listing the lecturer’s goals, similar to the list on page 52. While you’re outlining the lecture, I want you to come up with at least one example of how the lecturer is meeting his/her goals. For example, say your list looks like this: Defining a Term Listing Subtopics Exemplifying a topic Comparing and Contrasting You need to also identify how you know the lecturer is defining a term. What does he/she do? To do this, you’ll add to your list so it looks more like this: Goal Example Defining a Term Asks a rhetorical question. “What do I mean by rhetorical?” Listing Subtopics Signals a list: “There are eight principles in this model of education. First, …” Exemplifying a topic Uses a signal phrase: “For example, …” Comparing and Contrasting Uses a signal phrase: “On the one hand…” 3. Once you’ve made your list, then prepare a short (5-10 minute) presentation where you summarize your lecture and your group’s findings. If you’d like to make a PowerPoint, a podcast, overheads, or anything else that you may need help with, please don’t hesitate to ask!