Writing Assignments
Emails
The first item below is an email writing assignment. I wanted my students to engage with the text that they are reading. However, I also wanted to prepare my students for the future writing practices that mainstream society employs quite frequently: emails. Emails are one of the largest methods of communication in this day in age. My assignment has students construct an email, but they have to do so through the mind of a character from the novel. Thus, students are not only engaging with the text to create an email, but they are also engaging with the processes that go into creating an email.
The second item below is the assignment's rubric. The rubric measures how well the students have engaged with the text and, also, measures students' understanding of how to create an email.
The second item below is the assignment's rubric. The rubric measures how well the students have engaged with the text and, also, measures students' understanding of how to create an email.
Cartoons
The first item below is a cartoon writing assignment. Students need to learn how to communicate through words, but they also need to know how to communicate through visual images. This assignment has students recreate a written story into a comic strip. The assignment aims to teach students how to communicate with clarity through a combination of written and visual text. This assignment will help students in other areas, such as creating presentations. When students have to create future presentations, they will have a better understanding of how to use visual imagery to enhance and ultimately make a more effective presentation.
The second item below is the assignment's rubric. The rubric focuses on measure students' ability to accurately connect their images to the content, in which they are presenting through their comic strip.
The second item below is the assignment's rubric. The rubric focuses on measure students' ability to accurately connect their images to the content, in which they are presenting through their comic strip.