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Harter, Lynn M.; Quinlan, Margaret M. – Communication Teacher, 2008
This article presents an activity in which students use narrative theory as a conceptual canvas for understanding resumes as autobiographical performances shaped by social and material forces. By asking students to story their lives in both conventional and creative resumes, this assignment invites students to produce autobiographical discourse…
Descriptors: Resumes (Personal), Writing (Composition), Imagination, Story Telling
Samples, Robert E. – Learning, 1975
This article discusses techniques for reaching the metaphorical side of the brain. (PD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities, Creative Thinking
Vielmas, Michele – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Presents a variety of art and writing activities designed to evoke a new pedogogical orientation and to enable students to use their imaginations. The activities focus on language de-conditioning, observation, timing, transfer of knowledge, and reproduction. They include recipe models, colors, sensation, and feeling; poetry; and creating artistic…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creativity
Beacco, Jean-Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Outlines techniques for using simulations in the second language classroom to encourage students to imagine aspects of and situations in the target culture and as a means for evaluating student understanding of the culture. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Cultural Awareness

Meier, Susan Roberts – English Journal, 1983
Describes how having students draw both their own and a literary character's reality not only introduces students, quite painlessly and concretely, to a large number of literary terms, but also suggests that literature appreciation demands an imaginative extension into the life of another. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Humanistic Education, Imagination
Zingher, Gary – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Presents short descriptions of six "curious places" in children's books and films. Describes sample creative class activities for younger and middle grade children to engage in after listening to selected stories. Activities include creating drawings, stories, flip books, and picture books; role-playing; and developing an imaginary town.…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Activities
Williams, Frank E. – 1970
This volume, the final one in the series, presents about 400 ideas which teachers can use to teach creative thinking. The ideas are classified according to teacher behavior (strategies or modes of teaching) and by types of pupil behavior, as described in the rationale for the cognitive-affective instructional (CAI) model presented in volume 2. The…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Expression
Walsh, Christopher S. – Literacy, 2007
Many school literacy practices ignore adolescents' new digitally mediated subjectivity as it has been shaped by the new media age. Youth possess often unappreciated repertories of practice which allow them to use their imagination and creativity to combine print, visual and digital modes in combinations that can be applied to new educational,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Literacy, Adolescents, Multimedia Materials

Ousbey, Jack – Children's Literature in Education, 1981
Describes how one school developed six literature-based explorations involving an author of children's books that was intended to develop children's imaginations. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Writing
Britsch, Barbara M.; Dennison-Tansey, Amy – 1995
This book offers teachers a practical and theoretical classroom guide to the many ways music and stories may be explored, both independently and in tandem, to give students a better understanding and appreciation of each art form separately and of their power together. The crucial aspect of activities described in the book is original productions…
Descriptors: Books, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Elementary Education

McKenzie, Ginger Kelley – Montessori Life, 1995
Proposes ways to create a language curriculum based on children's "sensitive periods" as described by Montessori. Suggests that ages 6 through 12 are a sensitive period for using imagination. Creative expression should be an integral part of the entire curriculum, and creative expression can be stimulated through many sources of writing…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Objectives