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  • Orange, Red, Pink, Blue, and Green wires plugged into a circuit board.

    Connecting Reading to Writing Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements for ENA 101 by Marisa Klages-Bombich

    Image Credit: John Barkiple, Unsplash Faculty Facing content:  Goal: Integrating Reading and Writing Rationale: Students in ENA 101 appear to struggle greatly with reading in many arenas. In particular, in my experience students have trouble selecting appropriate source material to support their specific points, instead defaulting simply to any source that they find tangentially related…

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  • Black and white street scene of protest with people with fists raised.

    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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  • Wall of open books splayed one on top of another.

    ENA 101 Reading Logs by Jennifer Baumgartner

    Image Credit: Patrick Tomasso, Unsplash The goal of this project is to support ENA students in working with texts for the larger 101 class by scaffolding the process of analysis through a deep dive into the author, the intent of the piece, and any source used within the larger text. Often, students with weaker reading…

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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 Planning Guide by Allia Abdullah-Matta

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