Tag: Extra Credit
The Office Challenge
Office hours can feel long, laborious, and lonely when no one shows up, especially in the beginning of a semester. One way I've found to increase my students' use of office hours is to challenge them to meet with me.
Two Prompts for a Take Home Quiz – Lit
Submitted by John Casey. This document contains prompts for two take home quizzes given to students as extra credit options in a 200-level Survey of American Literature course.
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MLA & the Annotated Bibliography
A 2-page handout focusing on MLA citations and formatting for an annotated bibliography.
Invitation to the Voyages
"Invitation to the Voyages" is an exercise I use to teach imagery. It can be adapted for any writing genre.
Concrete Imagery in Poetry Scattegories
To begin: I have students call out a list of abstractions. Usually we end up with some variation on the following: fear
sadness
joy
depression
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