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Engaging with Text in Multiple Modalities by Belkis González
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: Engaging with the Text in Multiple Modalities NOTE: This doc is entirely faculty-facing. Please follow the links below for the student-facing assignments. Rationale This is a staged assignment that emphasizes reading-to-write. The related high-stakes assignment is an argumentative essay responding to Martin Luther King Jr.’s text…
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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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Asking Questions is Key by Evelyn Burg
ENG101 Research Paper Body: Asking questions (in-class, 5 pts) For the whole class to think about and briefly discuss: What makes a question good? Learning objective: This gives you some practice in pursuing lines of inquiry by using these questions while writing your research paper after you have completed your first paragraph. It also shows…
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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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Script for Introduction to Improving Thinking Skills for Students Video / PowerPoint
For ENA 101 Faculty in the small-group classroom: Script for the intro to critical reading video English 101 requires students to write a research paper. Good reading skills are a central element in solid writing, especially when research is involved. This ALP class strengthens critical reading skills and improves writing allowing for more time on…
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Introduction to Critical Reading for Faculty by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
(See student centered video on critical reading and improving thinking skills) Introduction Good reading skills are a central element in solid writing, especially when research is involved. This ALP class (ENA 101) allows students to strengthen critical reading skills and improve writing by allowing for more time on task and full explication. There are different…
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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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Introduction to Improving Thinking Skills by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
Improving Thinking Skills–Critical Reading Click below to download the “Critical Reading” file (PowerPoint)
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