May 7, 2010I've been thinking about the question that I brought up in class on Monday, about the impact of fiction versus…
May 6, 2010I'm a big fan of thinking exercises, short activities that model (in familiar forms) the kinds of thinking students need…
March 20, 2010I had my first-year writing literature classes read excerpts from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. And my students had a…
May 4, 2007This exercise focused specifically on how to approach the final portfolio, the final assignment of the semester that essentially asks…