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Raymond, Rich – CEA Forum, 2019
To challenge resistance to required literature courses, instructors quiz students regularly on the readings; they also require examinations that ask students to define key terms, to answer background questions focused on authors and dates, to identify key passages by author/title/speaker, and to explain the thematic significance of each quotation.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, College English, Teaching Methods
Buurma, Rachel Sagner; Heffernan, Laura – University of Chicago Press, 2021
"The Teaching Archive" shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up "the teaching archive"--the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments--of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot,…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Lecture Method, Notetaking, Assignments
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Schouela, Jeffrey M. – LEARNing Landscapes, 2022
How can comedy be used as an effective tool and truly help innovate the learning experience? This paper outlines how aspects of comedy have been creatively integrated into primary and secondary academic curricula such as English Language Arts, social studies, drama, as well as in areas of mental health and wellness. The essay demonstrates, for…
Descriptors: Comedy, Performance, Integrated Activities, English Instruction
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Campion, Corey; Dodman, Trevor – History Teacher, 2021
The centennial of the First World War has offered instructors across the humanities an exciting opportunity to enhance students' disciplinary expertise while reflecting on the significance of an event that continues to shape the world today. Drawing on established courses on the history and literature of the war, respectively, the authors designed…
Descriptors: War, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Seminars
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Marshall, Laura Hardin; Lynch, Paul – Composition Studies, 2020
The Writing Program (WP) at Saint Louis University has striven to create a course that draws on a richer disciplinary understanding of writing and rhetoric. The standard course structure, from which instructors are asked to fashion their own syllabi, asks students to pursue a scaffolded semester-long project. As they pursue the scaffolded…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
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Phillip Wilder – English Journal, 2019
This article describes a writing assignment called Conversations with Myself (CWM) in which students "talk back" to subtractive dominant narratives through a two-part process of text analysis and autobiographical, dialogic writing. The author presents a case study of Stephen (all names are pseudonyms) to illustrate how literacy supported…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Instruction, Self Concept, Autobiographies
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Melissa Vosen Callens – English Journal, 2017
The author describes how the production and reception of popular culture can be studied in secondary classrooms using Wendy Griswold's cultural diamond to better understand the homogenizing of content and the limiting of alternative viewpoints.
Descriptors: English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Popular Culture, Assignments
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Hrebik, John Ryan – CEA Forum, 2019
In this article, the author discusses composition studies by examining how incorporating "songwriting" into a first-year writing course enables students to begin expressing their own ideas/perspectives, while also developing the ability to create the concise, detailed texts associated with academic writing. The discussion offers a…
Descriptors: Singing, Musical Composition, Writing Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Hickey, Daniel; Duncan, Jody; Gaylord, Courtney; Hitchcock, Christine; Itow, Rebecca Chiyoko; Stephens, Shelby Elizabeth – Information and Learning Sciences, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is sharing out basic guidelines and examples from an extended collaboration to move educators move online while avoiding synchronous meetings. "gPortfolios" are public (to the class) pages where students write responses to carefully constructed engagement routines. Students then discuss their work with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Assignments
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Lynne Dozier – English Journal, 2017
The author shows how using art helped a blind student in an AP class and students in Creative and Practical Writing classes improve writing proficiency and critical thinking.
Descriptors: Blindness, Advanced Placement Programs, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction
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Elsie Lindy Olan; Julie A. Pantano – English Journal, 2020
In this article, the authors explore multimodal literacies and how they use literacy contracts and quadrants to help students to examine their identities via writing and the creative arts. A notable outcome of their joint efforts is that when teachers and students transacted with multimodal literacies, they showed value for their personal and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, Creative Writing
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Koupf, Danielle – Composition Forum, 2017
Tinkering is a longstanding material practice that has gained popularity in recent years as a learning strategy at numerous schools, camps, and makerspaces. This article seeks to establish in composition pedagogy tinkering's playful, exploratory ethos by introducing a practice called "critical-creative tinkering." In critical-creative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Literature, Writing Instruction
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Flynn, Nicole – CEA Forum, 2018
This essay describes an adaptable, multimodal assignment in which students create a comic in lieu of a traditional essay or exam. I outline the theoretical and practical value of this assignment and provide a detailed description of its implementation in two different literature courses: an introduction to the major course and a course on…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Assignments, Literature, Cultural Pluralism
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David Alan Smith – English Journal, 2015
This article examines the influence of context on student writing and discusses how the author used one methodology, problem-based learning, to foster more contextualized writing practice in ninth-grade English classes. Both research and practical experience suggest that students can benefit from writing practice contextualized within specific,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, English Instruction, Grade 9, Writing Instruction
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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