This class will use the ChatGPT engine to explore ways to bootstrap learning using AI generated prose as a model.

Everybody now knows that you can have a computer write your papers for you. Now what?

I think it’s an exciting time to be a writer!  Look at all these powerful tools we have at our disposal. What gifts! But how does AI fit into that toolkit now?

I’ll show your learner a systematic process for deconstructing AI generated material. We will then use those pieces to reconstruct a new draft and make it our own. This will allow us a new way to explore tone, voice, style, diction, and syntax. 

Along the way, we will learn to write expository, argumentative, persuasive, and narrative essays.

Join me on an exciting journey and be among the first humans EVER -- and perhaps the first beings in OUR ENTIRE GALAXY -- to collaborate with an AI to write a better essay. What a special time to be alive! 

Week of 3 April: Using ChatGPT to bootstrap our expository writing. 
We will start with an explanation of body paragraph structure and define the different kinds of sentences in an expository body paragraph -- topic sentence, FRED statement (fact, reason, example, detail), So What? statement -- and the jobs they do moving an idea from one place to another.

We will use a graphic organizer that will scaffold the outlining process.  Learners will draw this graphic organizer on a piece of paper so they can reproduce it on demand.

Every class, learners will outline, draft, and revise while getting feedback from the teacher.

Week of 10 April: Using ChatGPT to bootstrap our argumentative writing.
We will learn the difference between explaining and arguing and practice writing argumentative essays.

Week of 17 April: Using ChatGPT to bootstrap our persuasive writing.
We will learn the difference between arguing and persuading and how to use ethos, logos, pathos, and kairos to move an audience to a course of action.

Week of 24 April: Using ChatGPT to bootstrap our narrative writing.
We will learn the difference between narrative writing and academic writing and write personal essays that will pave the way to the college admissions essay.

Week of 1 May and beyond: we will continue to cycle through the different essay modes.