Classroom Applications

(More activities coming soon!)

Activities

20 Questions Activity -- helps students develop research paper topics

Build a Paragraph -- a hands-on building activity designed to help students understand basic paragraph structure.

Concept Maps - helps students identify key concepts and understand relationships between concepts.

Famous Speech Oral Presentation -- to develop public speaking skills by mimicking well known public speakers.

Ice Breaker Activity -- to establish a sense of community from the very beginning of the semester

Learning Tower of Straws - a hands-on building activity designed to help writing students understand "process" as a rhetorical mode. The building part of the activity can be used as an ice breaker / team work activity in any course.

MI Discovery Activity -- to introduce students to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Pizza Analysis Activity - to introduce writing students to analysis as a rhetorical mode

Paragraph Plants

Poetry Writing Activity - to help students develop an appreciation for poetry

Research Paper Log -- helps students develop research papers

Rubrics (teacher-designed rubrics)

Rubrics (student-designed rubrics)

Draw the Rhetorical Modes

 

Strategies

Opening Stretch

Ordered Sharing

Reflection Questionnaire

Spontaneous Brainstorming

Touchstones

Using Music in the Classroom

Using Movie Clips in the Classroom

Walk to a Solution Strategy

Why We Care Strategy