11.18 - Beloningness Conceptual Background

We started today's class with an assessment review of the 2013 Lisbon bond order assignment (see below). In this we looked at trends in what people were doing well and which points seemed to trip people up in completing this assignment. Everyone then had time to make revisions to their responses or to complete their response and turn it in if they had not done so already. People who had not yet turned this assignment in were asked to review and make any necessary changes based on today's feedback.

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We then returned to working with Baumeister and Leary's article on belongingness. We reviewed the selected vocabulary that the class identified last class as a way of reviewing key ideas for the reading. Next, people shared out their 1-2 sentence summaries for the first page of the text.

We then read the second column of text and people individually summarized the information covered in this section. We talked about the significance of transition words to key in on where big ideas are being addressed or summarized in the text. 

Our next piece of work with this article will be to read and summarize the individual points that Baumeister and Leary have identified as helping to prove that a need for belongingness is a fundamental human motivation. These points are outlined in the conceptual background section of the article. We are tracking these points with the conceptual background sheet and will continue working with this tomorrow.

At the end of class, project teams had time to meet and discuss their recent work.

Homework:

If you did not do so in class, finish reading the first two pages (up to the conceptual background section) of Baumeister and Leary's belongingness paper.

Work associated with your project as appropriate.

Update your project team's task schedule and contact log as appropriate.