Descriptions and handouts for in-class assignments
I use this assignment to help students understand the opportunities and limits of AI while also understanding how to write strong summaries as a foundation for analysis.
This activity helps students see that texts do not exist in isolation: they are part of a web of remediations (changing media forms) and exchanges. Students remake texts in the form of TikToks and consider how that process changes their relationship to the text and the author.
In this activity, students reverse outline a critical essay on a music video we are watching in class in order to see the larger questions at stake in multimodal composition and analysis.
I use this activity to teach character analysis in fiction works. Based on the questionnaire, "36 Questions That Lead to Love," groups of students are assigned a character and answer a series of questions from that character's perspective. Volunteers are then interviewed as their characters.
In this workshop, students diagram the different parts of example thesis statements, practice writing their own in groups, and round robin revise their peers',
This assignment asks students to bring something of themselves into the classroom: an object that holds a memory. As we read nonfiction essays on the meaning of objects, they analyze their relationship to their own "stuff" and see how "stuff" accumulates or loses value.
