This post is a modified version of “Unfolding Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’,” a paper I presented at the American Literature … Read More ›
Tag: group work
Just last week I put together an assignment to have students collaboratively take notes in class. This assignment stems from advice I received from three … Read More ›
This semester as I prepared my syllabus for the American Literature: Origins to the Civil War course, I wanted to get my students more engaged … Read More ›
When I asked if I could use Reacting to the Past (RTTP) in my new English Composition 101 class, and the answer was “yes,” I could … Read More ›
Asking the right question is no easy task. Teachers spend years fine-tuning questions and lesson plans. But when students get these questions, it’s for the first … Read More ›
I’ve been teaching Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) in the Intro to Writing About Literature course for two years, and I’ve found it fits a shorter paper … Read More ›
Teaching Consent in the College Classroom (Part 2) [Read Part 1] Backwards Pedagogy and a Gender Studies theme for the semester turned out some really … Read More ›
Moving on from teaching the general theme of women’s oppression in my composition course, as I described in my last post, we’ve turned to a much more … Read More ›
This semester, I approached my Composition students with a new assignment that they themselves had a hand in creating and making possible. As part of … Read More ›
The PDFs have been uploaded to Blackboard, the syllabi have been printed, stapled, and handed out, and names have been learned (well, mostly) as the … Read More ›
