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Peer Review
I recommend using this with a feedback menu.
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Evocative Object Essay Rubric
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How to “essay”
I like to precede this lesson by having students read Cheryl Strayed’s introduction to Best American Essays of 2013, which offers her thoughts on the genre. Though the slides refer to Strayed’s introduction, you may use them even with students who haven’t read the essay.
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Intro to Analysis & the Humanities
Prior to this introduction, I like to have my students read page 1-3 of John Ciardi and Miller Williams’ How Does a Poem Mean? but it’s not necessary to do so. The epigraph to those pages is an excerpt from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, in which a school master asks his students to explain what…
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Prompts for Radical Revision
This handout is a direct excerpt from “Radical Revision: Toward Demystifying the Labor of Writing,” by Carley Moore, in Writing Based Teaching: Essential Practices and Enduring Questions, edited by Teresa Vilardi and Mary Chang, State University of New York Press, 2009. Writing Based Teaching is quite possibly the best, most directly applicable book on writing pedagogy I own.…