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Concept of Place Rubric
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Analyze: Art as Counternarrative
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.
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Seeing the Difference: A Human vs. A.I. Writing Visualization Tool
Link to the tool here.
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Association Tracker
You can find the tool here:
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Banned Books
I show these slides when we discuss “Peril,” the preface to Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard.
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ChatGPT vs. Anne Lamott
For this lesson, I do a side-by-side comparison of Anne Lamott’s “Shitty 1st Drafts” and a text generated by ChatGPT, from a prompt that matches Lamott’s thesis. I don’t tell the students the second piece was written by A.I.—only that it essentially says the same thing as Lamott’s piece, only differently. The first time I…
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Doubting & Believing Games
Peter Elbow introduced the “doubting” and “believing games” in the 1970s to make critical thought conscious and easily practicable. As Elbow described it in his 2008 address to the CCCC, the doubting game is “the disciplined practice of trying to be as skeptical and analytic as possible with every idea we encounter. By trying hard…