Remixing Genres
Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...
Tinder, Dating Sites, and Genre
Affiliated Project: Exploring Genre Through Rhetorical Analysis Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to get students articulating...
Sir Mix-a-Lot: Hybrid and Anti-Genres
Purpose of Exercise: How to push back against existing genres. How to compose an anti-genre. This will help students see genres as being...
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Purpose of Exercise: To show students how they might consider audience in how they choose to write. Also, to help students see how...
Genre Speed Dating
Purpose of Exercise: To get a series of investigative questions that help students interrogate their specific, chosen genre. Description:...
Can You Write a Cat: Genre Alphabet
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise is designed to discuss the difference between topic and genre. Description: This is an exercise for...
Writer's Eye
This activity asks students to use images from the Museum of Modern Art as invention inspiration for either a poem or prose piece....