Lessons/Techniques to use every class:

• Doubting & Believing Games*
• Revisioning Exercise*
• “Shitty First Drafts”*
• List as Composition*
• Reverse Outlines*
• Sondra Perl’s “Felt Sense”*
• Finding and Writing from a New Lead*
• Visual Analysis
• Freewriting with Peter Elbow

One-Off Lessons:

• Introducing the University
• ChatGPT vs. Anne Lamott
• “The Language in Question” by Benjamin Garcia
• “Accents” by Denice Frohman
• Ursula LeGuin’s The Carrier Bag Theory
• Jason Reynolds’ Graduation Speech
• Rhetorical Analysis of “Snowy Day” Nike Ad
• Rhetorical Analysis of “The World is Yours”
• Everything is an Argument
• Introducing Yourself to Different Audiences
• Introducing Yourself, Two Truths & a Lie
• Rhetorical Context: National Values Lesson
• Reflexive Phrases/Appositives

* A “writing to think” or “thinking about thinking” exercise. Use this on its own and/or to enhance other lesson plans.