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To help my college students construct arguable, specific, and representative thesis statements, I use a series of templates to have them work through their ideas. Included in this word document are a template warm-up exercise, which helps students articulate their core position on the essay topic; and two thesis structures, one for position essays, where they would evaluate the worth or meaning of something, and a proposal structure for when they are making recommendations or providing solutions

Save yourself the time and trouble of developing a participation assessment device with this handy tool! I usually give the students a copy so they know what I'm looking for; when I factor in the grade, I just circle the criteria and give them back a copy of this rubric.

Quizzes, assignments, activities and essay response options to Dr. King's famous argument. A great teaching resource for showing argumentation or how to write persuasively!

Using lit theory in class can be challenging; however, the rewards of letting students see outside their own perspective are immense. Here, I've given a simple sheet with questions I've used--with sophomores!--to get them to understand how gender, particularly women, is constructed in fiction. I've used it with everyting from Scarlet Letter to Lord of the Flies!

This document can be used as a series of in-class activities or as a guide/worksheet for students when preparing for comparison-contrast analysis. Here's what's so invaluable about it: I've come up with a method to teach students how to construct their theses, and subsequently organize their response, by theme/idea, which is often difficult to express to students (especially more simplistic organizing devices are so easy and familiar to them.). This doc. is especially helpful for comparative lit

handout, practice, two types of quizzes