Click here: "Handout - Close Reading"
A handout that introduces close reading and that identifies and describes the basic formal elements of literature.
Adapted by Garrett Morrison from NU English Department tradition.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Handout - Postmortem Checklist and Self-Assessment
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A handout, to be completed by students and submitted along with their papers, that guides students through the final stages of editing, formatting, and reflecting on their writing.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
A handout, to be completed by students and submitted along with their papers, that guides students through the final stages of editing, formatting, and reflecting on their writing.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Activity - Sentence Revision Exercise
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An activity that guides students through the process of revising sentences. Applying the precepts of Booth, Colomb, and Williams's The Craft of Research, students replace baggy nominalizations and "to be" constructions with simple nouns and active verbs.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
An activity that guides students through the process of revising sentences. Applying the precepts of Booth, Colomb, and Williams's The Craft of Research, students replace baggy nominalizations and "to be" constructions with simple nouns and active verbs.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
Friday, May 30, 2014
Activity - Paper Revision Exercise
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An activity that guides students through the process of revising a draft of an essay. Students tighten their writing at all levels, from argument to analysis, paragraph to sentence.
Designed by Garrett Morrison.
An activity that guides students through the process of revising a draft of an essay. Students tighten their writing at all levels, from argument to analysis, paragraph to sentence.
Designed by Garrett Morrison.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
ENG 101 Paper Assignment - Keyword Essay
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A paper assignment that asks students to write a short essay (and give a five-minute presentation) on a keyword, à la Raymond Williams.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
A paper assignment that asks students to write a short essay (and give a five-minute presentation) on a keyword, à la Raymond Williams.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
Monday, May 5, 2014
Handout - Reading Poetry Technically
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A handout that explains the major formal elements of poetry.
Designed by Annalese Duprey.
A handout that explains the major formal elements of poetry.
Designed by Annalese Duprey.
Friday, May 2, 2014
ENG 101 Paper Assignment - Critical Essay
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A paper assignment that asks students to 1) summarize and evaluate the arguments of other scholars and 2) analyze a literary text in order to support arguments of their own.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
A paper assignment that asks students to 1) summarize and evaluate the arguments of other scholars and 2) analyze a literary text in order to support arguments of their own.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
ENG 101 Paper Assignment - Argumentative Article Review
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A paper assignment that asks students to summarize, evaluate, and respond to a scholarly article.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
A paper assignment that asks students to summarize, evaluate, and respond to a scholarly article.
Designed by Garrett Morrison
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
ENG 270-2 Lesson Plan - Huck Finn and Making an Argument
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A lesson plan for a discussion of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students construct arguments about Huck's moral development, or lack thereof, toward the end of the novel.
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
A lesson plan for a discussion of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students construct arguments about Huck's moral development, or lack thereof, toward the end of the novel.
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
ENG 270-2 Lesson Plan - Harriet Jacobs and Literariness
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A lesson plan for a discussion of Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students grapple with concepts of literacy, literariness, and genre (slave narrative, gothic).
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
A lesson plan for a discussion of Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students grapple with concepts of literacy, literariness, and genre (slave narrative, gothic).
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Presentation - Composing a Thesis
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A PowerPoint presentation that explains the characteristics of a good thesis statement and leads students through a series of thesis writing activities.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
A PowerPoint presentation that explains the characteristics of a good thesis statement and leads students through a series of thesis writing activities.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
ENG 234 Lesson Plan - Romeo and Juliet and Making an Argument
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A lesson plan for a class on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students rehearse the process of literary argumentation, moving from a general topic of discussion to a specific set of textually supported claims.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
A lesson plan for a class on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students rehearse the process of literary argumentation, moving from a general topic of discussion to a specific set of textually supported claims.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
ENG 211 Lesson Plan - Limericks and Meter
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A lesson plan for a class on limericks and poetic meter. In small groups, students practice manipulating metrical form and, by the end of the session, write their own poems.
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
A lesson plan for a class on limericks and poetic meter. In small groups, students practice manipulating metrical form and, by the end of the session, write their own poems.
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
Friday, February 28, 2014
ENG 211 Lesson Plan - Gwendolyn Brooks, C.K. Williams, Robert Frost, and Diction
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A lesson plan for a discussion of three poems: Brooks's "kitchenette building," Williams's "Snow: II," and Frost's "Design." Students analyze the usage of a number of formal poetic devices, especially diction (a.k.a. word choice).
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
A lesson plan for a discussion of three poems: Brooks's "kitchenette building," Williams's "Snow: II," and Frost's "Design." Students analyze the usage of a number of formal poetic devices, especially diction (a.k.a. word choice).
Designed by Meaghan Fritz.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Handout - Creating an Argument
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A handout that outlines the fundamentals of literary argumentation.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
A handout that outlines the fundamentals of literary argumentation.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Handout - Notes Toward Writing a Good English Paper
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A handout that explains the fundamentals of writing a college-level English paper, covering matters of argument, analysis, organization, and style.
Adapted by Garrett Morrison from NU English Department tradition.
A handout that explains the fundamentals of writing a college-level English paper, covering matters of argument, analysis, organization, and style.
Adapted by Garrett Morrison from NU English Department tradition.
Monday, January 20, 2014
ENG 105 Syllabus - Higher Education and the Human Body
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A syllabus for ENG 105, Expository Writing, a freshman composition course. This section focuses on how educational institutions shape the function and meaning of the human body.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
A syllabus for ENG 105, Expository Writing, a freshman composition course. This section focuses on how educational institutions shape the function and meaning of the human body.
Designed by Hosanna Krienke.
Monday, January 6, 2014
ENG 101 Syllabus - The Many Wests of the United States
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A syllabus for ENG 101, a freshman seminar. This section focuses on cultural representations of the American West.
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
A syllabus for ENG 101, a freshman seminar. This section focuses on cultural representations of the American West.
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
ENG 273 Lesson Plan and Handout - Pynchon and Song Lyrics
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And here: "ENG 273 Handout - Pynchon and Song Lyrics"
A lesson plan, with an accompanying handout, for a discussion section in which students form small groups and perform close textual analyses of the fake songs in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
And here: "ENG 273 Handout - Pynchon and Song Lyrics"
A lesson plan, with an accompanying handout, for a discussion section in which students form small groups and perform close textual analyses of the fake songs in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
ENG 270-2 Lesson Plan - Introductions and Herman Melville
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A lesson plan for the first discussion section of the quarter. Students introduce themselves to each other and discuss the theme of "assumptions" vs. "preferences" in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Designed by originally used by Garrett Morrison.
A lesson plan for the first discussion section of the quarter. Students introduce themselves to each other and discuss the theme of "assumptions" vs. "preferences" in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Designed by originally used by Garrett Morrison.
ENG 105 Syllabus - Composition and Coming of Age
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A syllabus for ENG 105, Expository Writing, a freshman composition course. This section revolves around the theme of "coming of age."
Designed by Garrett Morrison.
A syllabus for ENG 105, Expository Writing, a freshman composition course. This section revolves around the theme of "coming of age."
Designed by Garrett Morrison.
ENG 273 Handout - Introductions and Langston Hughes
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A handout for the first discussion section of the quarter. Students introduce themselves to each other and conduct a close reading of Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
A handout for the first discussion section of the quarter. Students introduce themselves to each other and conduct a close reading of Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
ENG 273 Lesson Plan and Handout - Hemingway and Close Reading
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A lesson plan, with an accompanying handout, for a discussion section on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Students reflect on Hemingway's prose style, get introduced to the rudiments of close reading, and practice the techniques of textual analysis on a passage from The Sun Also Rises.
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
A lesson plan, with an accompanying handout, for a discussion section on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Students reflect on Hemingway's prose style, get introduced to the rudiments of close reading, and practice the techniques of textual analysis on a passage from The Sun Also Rises.
Designed and originally used by Garrett Morrison.
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