Question 1: Formulate one or two ideas for forward-looking assessment. Identify a situation in which students are likely to use what they have learned, and try to replicate that situation with a question, problem, or issue.
I teach a non-Western literature course for first-year students who are *not* majoring in English. They often belong to a wide range of majors. One of my main goals during the course is to encourage the students to recognize social problems that are portrayed in the literature and to understand how these situations play out in the real world.
Here is a sketch for a formative task:
1) Choose one of the novels we have read so far this semester. Imagine that, ten years in the future, you work as a professional in the field you are studying now. One day, you meet one of the characters from the novel through your work.
2) Think and then write about where this character is in his or her life when you meet. Write a few paragraphs to tell us what is happening in that character's life now. Tell us how the two of you met. What are the challenges that the character shares with you in your professional capacity. What are some things that you can do to help him or her? (For example, perhaps you have decided to work for a microfinance group in Zimbabwe. You meet Chipo, the pre-teen mother from NoViolet Bulawayo's "Hitting Budapest." She is now in her twenties, and tells you that she wants to open a textile business to help support her children. She comes to you for help with finances. You want to help her, but you realize that she needs help learning to plan her business strategies before you lend her start-up funds.)
3) With a partner, create a 2- to 3-minute play that depicts the interaction you have described above. Since each of you will write a play, you will have two to perform.
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