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Analyzing Quotations for Close Reading, Reading Comprehension, Student Engagement and Interaction in ENA 101 by Michelle Pacht
Narrative Description (for faculty) This in-class small group assignment is designed to address several areas that ENA 101 students often find challenging: close reading, reading comprehension, student engagement and interaction, and a sense of ownership during class activities. Students are asked to delve into a short quotation from an ENG 101 assigned reading, modeling and…
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Close Reading & Analysis: An Assignment to Support the Move from ENA/G101 to ENG102 by Leah Richards
Image Credit: Koshu Kunii, Unsplash Timeline: late in semester, almost entirely in class; we’ll take as long as we need for each part Text: a short work of social issue/social protest fiction (or poetry) that aligns with class themes; story will be printed out, with generous margins and space between lines to facilitate writing all…
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Voice of Reason Creative Writing Assignment based on “The Lottery” for ENG 102 by Ellie McGurty
This is a low stake writing assignment done before students began their formal essay. Directions: After reading the following excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, follow the instructions for your creative writing piece. “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile…
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In-Class Research and Writing Assignment on Susan Glaspell’s Trifles for ENG 102 by David Sibbitt
Analyzing a play, researching secondary sources, and preparing to write a full-length essay on Trifles Type of Assignment: Low-stakes, in-class writing and researching exercise Adapted From: Final exercise of Drama Unit available on OER Commons Required Reading / Watching: Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Text of Trifles accessed from Internet Archive Video of “A Jury of Her Peers”…
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“I’m From” Poetry Activity, Lecture, and Lesson Plan by Caron Knauer
I use the resource referenced below to begin a discussion about poetry before we do the activity inwhich students write an “I’m From” poem, template below, and share reactions to it emotionally, narratively, and tonally and then they write a reflection. https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/83813/overview?section=6 Activity Lesson Plan Poetry Explication OER Commons Lesson- go over pages 3-6 of…
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Keeping a Reading Log for a Play and Reading an Abstract in ENG 102 by Caron Knauer
Resources Needed: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Arthur Miller published by Longman Literature, 1993. Warm-up – first class: Accessing prior information What is a whistleblower? – have students share their thoughts. Can they name one? Ask students if they’ve heard of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha? Discuss. Watch Splash clip: Ask…
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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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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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