Bits Week in Review for December 27

Catch up on your reading with this round-up of posts from last week on teaching composition and rhetoric from Bedford Bits, on teaching English language arts at the secondary level in High School Bits, and on teaching literature and creative writing from Bedford Lit Bits.

• Has it occurred to you that we don’t get students’ best work at the end of term? Steve Bernhardt discusses the Final Assignment.
• Traci Gardner (Bits) Traci Gardner shares a classroom activity that focuses on Asking Students to Create 60-Second Overviews. 
• Barclay Barrios (Bits) Barclay Barrios discusses how Student Workers contribute in his Behind the Textbook series. 
• Lee Jacobus (Lit Bits) considers how to teach students the difference between Drama as Theatre and Drama as Literature.
• Jack Solomon (Bits) asks, "Whose News?" as he explores individualized, social news feeds & hetero-directedness: http://ow.ly/88wY5
• Michael Kardos (Lit Bits) asks, “How, and to what degree, do you bring your own writing life into the classroom?” in You Write, Too? 
• Andrea Lunsford (Bits) shares details on her winter break and talks about Unexpected Gifts that demonstrate the value of building strong connections with students. 

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—Traci Gardner

[Photo: Evening watching television by flash.pro, on Flickr]

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