E-ports and Lesson Revision

This week’s Inbox is out. The Ideas section was inspired by the e-portfolios statement adopted at CCCC last week. I worked in a link to Kathi’s “Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work” (link only works for 21 days). My related NCTE Inbox blog entry offers some commentary on the thinking that should be behind students’ Web-sensible e-portfolios.

Also (finally) finished revisions of the lesson plan that ties to the English Journal article that I published this month (link only gets you to a login, but hey, I’m published on paper). The lesson Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” explores the poem and then asks students to adopt the persona of a character from the poem and write about their thoughts from a modern-day perspective. Not necessarily a new idea, but a fun assignment nonetheless.