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Welcome to College. It’s different here.
On the very first day, I like to discuss the college experience in the abstract. I briefly explain how perceptions of higher education have changed over time and offer students an opportunity to think about how they want to grow and develop over the next four years. It’s not just about the degree! I also…
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Sponsors of Literacy
We discuss these slides before completing this scaffolding assignment for their literacy narrative.
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Everything is an Argument
Because our way of creating and interpreting meaning is inescapably metaphoric and associative, learning how to consciously translate the meanings around us prevents some of the psychological harm inflicted when we process them subconsciously. I teach the “Everything is an Argument” lesson using the below slideshow. It contains insights adapted insights from the Everything is…
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Shitty 1st Draft
The first lesson I teach on the “shitty first draft,” is this one, Anne Lamott vs. ChatGPT. If you’re not interested in the above lesson but want to do a “says/does” analysis of Lamott’s piece, you may find an answer key for that here. The slideshow below provides an excellent refresher, as does this dialectical…
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Reflexive Phrases/Appositives
You can sell this activity to your students as “How to strengthen your ethos.” Together, look at page 108-109 of Everything is an Argument (or the slideshow “Everything is an Argument“) to see how Swarthmore professor Timothy Burke used reflexive statements to underscore his right to speak on a particular topic. Then divide the class…
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Rhetorical Analysis of “Snowy Day” Nike Ad
With the whole class, watch the first three minutes of this video, which show the Nike ad without the analysis. Ask them how the commercial makes them feel before you begin analysis of how these feelings are created. Use this slideshow of images from the video. Ask students to write responses, dialectical-notebook style, about each slide.…