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Essay Assignment and Preparation Exercises by Lalit Bajaj
Guidelines—Please read carefully before you begin: After you have finished reading, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “Story of an Hour,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” please choose only TWO of these stories to write this essay. You may use your text and your dictionary to plan and write your essay. Your essay must have an introduction with a clear…
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Transitioning from ENA 101 to ENG 102: A Low Stakes Writing Assignment by Anita Baksh
Rationale: Students sometimes have difficulty recognizing how the writing skills acquired in ENG/A 101 transfer to ENG 102. They also might be intimidated by the practice of reading and writing about literature. To assist them with this transition, I introduce them to a short piece of literature and have them practice analyzing and writing about…
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ENA 101 Sample Assignments
The assignments below come from faculty who participated in the ENA 101 Reboot Seminar led by Jacqueline Jones and Tara Coleman in 2022-2023. With a focus on the present and future of Accelerated Learning Program courses in writing at LaGuardia, the ENA 101 Reboot seminar explores the following questions: With the elimination of Basic Writing,…
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Pre-writing and Critical Thinking by Anita Baksh and Evelyn Burg
Brainstorming and Gathering Information Using Concept Maps Brainstorming ideas and gathering information are important parts of prewriting, the beginning phase of the writing process. A concept map is a helpful tool that allows writers to collect and organize information, visualize an overview of a topic, particularly a debate, understand relations between items, obtain ideas to…
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Three Modes of Writing: Narrative, Exposition, and Argument (PowerPoint & Activity) by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
Click to download the PowerPoint Slides for Three Modes of Writing Worksheet for Three Modes of Writing: Narrative, Exposition, and Argument (Accompanies Google Slides: “Three Modes of Literary Expression”) Lesson and Low-Stakes Activity (1 hour) Learning Goal: The accompanying slide show offers a basic lesson on the three types of written expression, with class participation…
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Critical Reading Activity and Food Memory Writing Assignment by Anita Baksh and Evelyn Burg
Learning Outcomes This lesson: allows students to practice critical reading skills such as annotation introduces students to techniques for reading literary texts and analyzing literary devices including imagery and metaphor prepares students to write a short narrative essay Materials: Excerpt from Esmerelda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican: “Prologue: How To Eat a Guava” Part…
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