Powerpoints

  • State-Sponsored Art

    I use this slideshow in discussions of book-banning and Toni Morrison’s essay, “Peril.”

  • Counternarratives

    I find it useful to offer a list of “master narratives” before beginning this introduction.

  • Reflexive Statements

  • Anti-Suffragist Propaganda & Response

    I use this slideshow in conjunction with Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers.” The suffragists’ decision to base their argument around their roles as homemakers demonstrates excellent understanding of rhetorical strategy. I use their response to introduce the idea of strategic positionally, as presented in this slideshow.

  • Cliché or Not?

  • “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” writing prompts

    I use the quotes and prompts in these slides to help my students prepare to write their literacy narratives.

  • The 3-story Thesis

    I like Amy Guptill’s explanation of the “three story thesis” for concretizing the difference between a high-school level thesis and a college-level thesis. These slides review her examples and also break Ursula LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory” thesis into three levels, since I introduced them to that around the same time. Some students prefer to practice identifying three-story…

  • ChatGPT vs. Anne Lamott

    The excerpts on the right are all from Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” The excerpts on the left are ChatGPT’s responses to the prompt, “Explain that all writers write terrible first drafts and that doing so is an important part of the writing process.” You can find the whole of ChatGPT’s response here. I sometimes…

  • Analyze: Art to Raise Awareness

    I recommend preceding this lesson with my introduction to analysis. Some of the “Intro to Analysis” slideshow is specific to essays, but you can bypass those parts.

  • Examples of Multimodal Projects