Exercise of the Week Archives

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Exercise of the Week Archives

4_26_2012 -- "Fine (Media) Print: Learning to Write Through Listening" -- Violetta Marmor

4_26_2012 -- "Nonlinear Composition" -- Nick Stenzel

4_19_2012 -- "Copy-editing with the Penguin Handbook" -- Will Steffen

4_12_2012 -- "Differentiating Between Objective and Subjective Ways of Seeing" -- Shastri Akella

4_6_2012 -- "Visual Language: Forgotten Spaces, Remembered" -- Rebecca Maillet

3_29_2012 -- "Reflective Writing to Reinforce the Arc" -- Nicole Reynolds

3_16_2012 -- "The Cataloguing a Semester's Worth of Learning" -- Heather Wayne

3_8_2012 -- "The Cairo Exericse" -- Pat Zukowski

2_23_2012 -- Tracing Growth Through Language and Terminology -- Kate Litterer

2_16_2012 -- Rethinking Unit 1 from the Perspective of a Fiction Writer -- Liana Camper-Barry

2_9_2012 -- The Grammar of Romance -- Nick Sansone

2_3_12 -- The Arc of the Curriculum -- Kelin Loe & Kate Litterer

1_27_12 -- Guide to Peer Response Workshop -- Emma Howes & A'Dora Phillips

 

4.29.11 -- A Whole Lotta Peer Review -- Liz Fox

4.22.11 -- Writing Tactics & the Final Reflection -- Nick Sansone

4.1.11 -- Annotated Bib Swap -- Rachael Katz

3.25.11 -- Punctuating with Style -- Andrew Fox

3.11.11 -- Sentence-Level Edits Without Lecturing -- Kate Litterer

3.4.11 -- The "One Minute Paper" -- Ben Estes

2.25.11 -- The Nemesis Exercise -- Liz Fox

2.18.11 -- Reflecting Through Film -- Aaron Frigard

2.18.11 -- Using Online Research Tools to Contextualize Readings -- Anne Bello

2.11.11 -- Mapping Out the Metaphor -- Jenny Krichevsky

2.4.11 -- The Movie Lens -- Sean Rosenberg

1.28.11 -- Acting Out to Discuss Classroom Expectations -- Travis Grandy

1.21.11 -- On This Person's Walls -- Amy Dickinson

12.3.10 -- Experimenting with Voice -- Nick Sansone

11.19.10 -- Turning the Tables:Students as Teachers -- Rachael Katz

11.12.10 - What are they selling us? Advertisers and Audience -- Travis Grandy

11.4.10 - Sifting Through the Information -- Greg Purcell

10.29.10 - Quotation Sandwich -- Rebecca Griffin

10.22.10 - Creating the Conversation -- Ashley Nadeau

10.15.10 - Mad Libs -- Adam Cogbill

10.08.10 - Portfolio DeBriefing -- Hari Kumar

10.01.10 - Avoiding Tall Green Trees -- Matthew Harrison

09.24.10 - Using Active Verbs -- Carlin Mackie

09.17.10 - List Making -- Kelin Loe

04.30.10 - Two Possible Options for the Final Reflection - Airlie Sattler Rose

04.23.10 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Matt Weingast

04.16.10 - Inventions - Sarah Boyer

04.09.10 - Lights! Action! Annotated Bibliography! - Nick Sansone

04.02.10 - Developing Better Research Questions - Morgan Lynn

03.26.10 - Getting Rid of Generalizations - by Annie Kleeman

03.12.10 - What's Going On - by Kate Marantz

02.26.10 - Reading the World--As a Writer--Non-Traditional Texts - by David Bartone

02.19.10 - The Ten Sentence Showdown - Ashley Nadeau

02.12.10 - Copy-Editing for Style and Grammar - Jensen Beach

01.29.10 - Context Murder Mystery by Danna Zeller

01.22.10 - The Writer's Toolbox by Mark Koyama

11.20.09 - An Ongian Approach to Analyzing Audience by Landis Duffett

11.13.09 - Interviewing for Research Cash by David Bartone

11.06.09 - Paragraphish Thing about Pictures and Sentences by Sarah Boyer

10.23.09 - Just Follow Your Nose by Matt Weingast

10.16.09 - Summarizing a Visual Text by Kate Marantz

10.09.09 - 50 Words by Elise Swinford

10.02.09 - Masked Magazine Exercise by Airlie Sattler Rose

09.25.09 - What Sportcenter Can Mean to Unit 1 by Matt Weingast

09.18.09 - All of My Students Drew Smiles on their Faces by Jono Tosch

04.24.09 - Asking Questions by Mark Koyama

04.17.09 - Final Reflection Portfolio Review by Lisha Daniels Storey

04.10.09 - Examining the Conversations That Surround Us by Denise Paster

03.06.09 - How to Tell the Chancellor About Your Crazy Weekend by Tim Zajac

02.27.09 - Low-Stakes Debating by Miranda Dennis

02.20.09 - Frankenstein Draft by Katey Roden

02.13.09 - In-Class Revising Workshop by Linh Dich

02.06.09 - Details Add Authority by Adam Cogbill

01.30.09 - Charting Writing "Rules" by Amber Engelson

11.21.08 - Linking Exercise to Bridge Units 2-3: Creating Conversation by Emma Howes

11.14.08 - Moving Beyond Generic Assumptions by Deb Donig

11.07.08 - Writing and Remediation by Christian Pulver

10.31.08 - Class Discussion Suggestions by Amber Engelson

10.17.08 - The Writer's Toolbox by Mark Koyama

10.10.08 - Making Every Sentence Count by Rachel Dworsky

10.03.08 - Introducing Interacting With Texts by Deb Donig

09.26.08 - Linking with Yarn by Emma Howes

09.19.08 - Compost Revision by Mark Koyama

09.05.08 - Diversifying Spark Literacy Exercise by Amber Engelson

 

 

 

  

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