How to Eat a Poem

Purpose: When reading poetry, students so often feel pressure to find the “deeper” or “underlying” meaning. This exercise is meant to...

Sofa to 5k: Active Reading

Purpose: This exercise demonstrates the relationship between active-reading and efficient-reading. Students should learn that attentive...

Purpose: Helping students develop knowledge about organizational structures and formatting common to academic articles, so that can use ...

Purpose: Understanding how journals and newspapers set a particular tone for their audiences and how writing style changes across...

Purpose: Helping students learn to actively read texts, how to take notes on readings, and gain an understanding of their preferred...

Purpose: This exercise leads students through the process of planning their zine. It encourages them to figure out what will be included...

Purpose: This exercise demonstrates how various media and individual experiences can shape our interpretations of an event. This is also...

Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think about and write on their cultural influences and what makes them associate particular...

Purpose: This exercise is an attempt to get students to see that what they think they have written is not always what they actually have...

Purpose: Students will focus on finding and strengthening their own voice and balancing their source material/incorporating their source...