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- 1: Ten
Ways to Ask Students to Re-Think the Classroom
- Asks students to think critically about the
computer-based classroom, considering their work space from a
different perspective by analyzing the community and the learning
that takes place there. Ideas include examining the classroom from
the perspective of an archaeological team that uncovers the
classroom in 3098, and having a discussion forum where students
discuss the advantages of computer-based classrooms assuming the
roles of administrators, politicians, and family members in the
conversation.
- 2: Ten
Ways to Play with Literature
- Suggests playful paper and discussion
topics that don't lend themselves easily to the five-paragraph
theme. Each activity should include a second part that asks
writers to reflect on their decisions and explain the textual
analysis that supports their ideas. The activities include
producing a movie version of a reading, writing a letter to a
character or the author, and rewriting a passage in another style
or from a different cultural perspective.
- 3: Ten
Ways to A Writer's Background
- Explains assignments you can use to learn
about your students' writing practices and learning styles, such
as asking your students to assemble a writing kit, to write a
fable or other folk tale exploring a lesson they have learned as
writers, or to list the top ten tips they would share with another
writer.
- 4: Ten
Ways to Respond to Student Drafts
- Suggests techniques for commenting on rough
drafts that encourage writers to enter into conversations about
their writing and to reflect on their writing process. The list
includes using journalist's questions, connecting reading
comprehension skills to reader's responses, and discussing
on-going writing in writer's journals.
- 5: Ten
Unusual Sources for Research Papers
- Outlines kinds of sources that students can
use for their research papers that move beyond the traditional
books and articles. The list includes questions that ask writers
to consider how the sources that they have collected compare. The
suggested resources include an absurd article, a song, and an
interview.
- 6: Ten Prewriting Exercises
for Personal Narratives
- Offers invention heuristics to help
students develop their narratives in more details. The activities
include writing sketches for the people involved in the narrative,
scripting a part of the conversation as a play, and storyboarding
part of the narrative in a comic strip.
- 7:Ten
Ways to Think About Year 2000 Issues
- Asks students to interrogate the discussion
of Year 2000 with writing projects that ask students to think
about the ways that we talk and think about this issue. The
activities include stylistic analysis of Year 2000 statements and
writing science fiction papers on what will happen at midnight on
January 1, 2000.
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- 8: Ten
Ways to Use An Old Stack of Magazines
- Considers ways to use popular magazines,
generally to hone analytical skills by writing analytical,
expository or persuasive papers. Activities include writing a
sales letter, asking the reader to subscribe to a magazine, and
analyzing all the full-page advertisements in a magazine. Most of
these assignments can be easily modified
for use with newspapers.
- 9: Ten
Ways to Work on Grammar Collaboratively
- Focuses on ways to use Mail to discuss
issues of grammar in writing classes. Activities include creating
multiple choice and short revision exercises based on sentences
and passages from students' own writing and writing about memories
of being taught grammar.
- 10: Ten
Prewriting Exercises for Descriptive Papers
- Helps students writing descriptive papers
or writing descriptive passages in any paper. The exercises ask
students to examine an object, person, or place from an unusual
point of view. Most of the exercises can be broken up into a
series of questions and presented as a worksheet for students to
complete.
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Originally Posted on the NCTE Web on February 14, 2000.
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