Active Reading: Marking Up the Text and Dialogic Journals

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

Writing a Zine Agreement

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...

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to expand the overall cooperativeness of the students in the class and to increase their...

Purpose: This exercise is designed to get the students more engaged with the assignment prompt early in the revision process and to give...

Purpose: This activity should help students identify effective and creative transitions in the essay by restructuring the final draft. It...

Purpose: This exercise encourages students to explore ways of employing effective detail-driven transitions within their writing. By...