A handout/tutorial on identifying and avoiding passive voice in one's writing.
A handout/tutorial on identifying and avoiding the overuse of qualifiers in one's writing.
A handout/tutorial on sentence patterns in writing.
Detailed handout on maintaining style in writing, including avoiding wordiness, cliches, and maintaining verb tense.
A handout/tutorial on verb tense and when to use each type in writing.
A video resource on why we cite information in writing.
A handout/tutorial on the importance of word choice in writing including wordiness, redundancy, and cliches.
In this lesson plan, students learn a little about what media literacy is and why it's important. Students turn a critical eye to newspaper headlines and articles while considering what is really important and how to look past what is presented.
In the 1850's abolition was not a widely embraced movement in the U.S. It was considered radical and extreme. In his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglas sought to make abolition acceptable to Northern whites. In addition to making historical points about attitudes towards slavery in the 19th century, this speech can be used to teach formal rhetoric. The lesson features five interactive activities requiring close reading and analysis of Frederick's use of language and rhetorical strategies.
The Whimsy Project is high school level, school-wide, cross-curricular PBL project that allows students to maximize their creative thinking and problem solving skills as they connect academic content to real-world applications, in a fun and whimsical way (per the book by Tony Wagner, "Creating innovators"). It was done in the fall of 2017 at Tri-County Early College as a relatively low stakes way to introduce students - especially incoming freshmen - to the basics of PBL.