1. Show and Tell Exercise CRTW 201 Dr. Fike

2. Note Please select one member of your group to signal me when you have completed each step.

3. Step One: 15-20 minutes Share your object and your analysis with your group members. After everyone has shared, pick one object/analysis to focus on in step two. Note: This part of the exercise is not supposed to be “critical.” That is, just share. Do not subject anyone’s analysis to critique.

4. Step Two: 15 minutes Turn to N 163, “Evaluating Around the Circle”: Using the one analysis that you have chosen, subject each of the elements to the questions that appear on this page. Then turn to N 166-67. Use the “Standards Check” here to confirm your answers to the questions on 163. Note: You should find substantial overlap as well as new ways of thinking about the analysis.

5. Step Three: 10 minutes As a group, use what you have learned from checking the analysis of one group member’s object to improve that analysis. Rewrite or recast it as necessary. Then figure out how to present the analysis to the class (just the elements).

6. Step Four Someone—or a combination of persons from your group—should present the revised analysis of an object to the whole class. The presenter does not have to be the original author of the analysis.

7. Key Points This exercise emphasizes the following things: 1) You can do critical thinking about anything. 2) Use the elements to analyze your object. Use the standards to evaluate your analysis. 3) You must analyze before you evaluate.