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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Resources Seminar Practices

Virtual Annotation

These sample activities involve rigorous close reading by way of collaborative annotation online.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Resources Tools Writing

Using Twitter in the Classroom

This resource offers a range of ideas for using Twitter as a teaching tool.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Resources Writing

Thoughts and Suggestions for Writing-Based Course Revision

This resource includes a range of tips and strategies that are helpful in the context of independent study and correspondence courses.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Resources Writing

Student-Generated Questions Assignment

This assignment invites students to create questions based on a shared reading and then respond to each other’s questions.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Resources Seminar Practices Writing

Question and Claim Weekly Response Assignment

This weekly assignment invites students to generate a discussion question and a (provisional) claim about a shared reading.

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Assessment Assignments Close Reading Peer Review Resources Seminar Practices Student Engagement Writing

Online Peer Review

Drawn from the Lexicon of Migrations network course, this resource outlines a peer review session for a collaboratively produced dictionary of “Key Words.”

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Literature Resources Social Sciences Writing

Online Introductory Concept/Writing and Image Exercise

Through inviting students to write in a range of ways, this resource offers strategies to integrate deep reading and discussion of images into the classroom.

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Class Activities Close Reading Literature Resources Writing

Online Annotated Poetry Exercise

This resource offers a way to engage students in deep discussion of a poem through collaborative annotation using Google Docs.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Literature Resources Seminar Practices Social Sciences Writing

Online Annotated Bibliographies

By outlining an online annotated bibliography activity, this resource shares an alternative way to engage students in reading, evaluating, and discussing primary and secondary sources.

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Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Images Literature Resources

Listen and Visualize Activity

This close reading activity models active listening while also engaging students through investigating a text by adding images.