In Quest of Culture: Topic Generating for Research Essay
Purpose: A Topic-generating Exercise best suited to a culture-oriented researched essay assignment. This exercise helps students learn...
Commercial Break!! Creative Play With Media Influence
Purpose: Works well to introduce a personal visual media paper, or other media analysis paper, because it encourages students to think...
Looking Beneath the Surface
Purpose: This exercise accompanies “In Case You Ever Want To Go Home Again” by Barbara Kingsolver. It is designed to ask students to...
TV Personalities: Trying on Voices
Purpose: This icebreaker makes a great first day introduction, getting students interested in and excited about writing by exploring...
Alphabet Lists—Getting to Know Your Classmates
Purpose: The aim of this exercise is to get students to introduce themselves and to initiate collaborative working relationships...
Would You Rather...
Purpose: This ice breaker is a great activity for students and I have found that it gives students a chance to get to know more about...
Guess Who?
Purpose of Exercise: The purpose of this exercise is three-fold: to introduce students to each other, to show the variety of experiences...
Learning to Lie—The Importance of Including Details
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to discover and invent convincing details. This is a good exercise to use in the beginning of...
Grammar Remediated
Purpose of Exercise: Teaching grammar rules to your students can be painstakingly boring—not only for them, but for you. Covering this...
Exquisite Corpse: Fun with Syntax
Purpose: This Mad-Libs-style exercise gets students thinking about how language works via an underhanded grammar refresher, and jarring...