Examples of Some Class Activities and Projects:

Write a profile of yourself as a writer.

Collect and bring to class as many ways of grading as you can find.

Working in a small group with your classmates, evaluate composition textbooks
and literature anthologies.
Which ones are the best ones?
What criteria will you use?

Design an instructional unit:  Literature

Create an instructional unit involving a series of classroom activities dealing with a literary work.
The unit should be engaging and integrated (activities involve speaking and listening and reading and writing).
Defend your unit as being both appropriate and worthwhile.

Design an instructional unit:  Composition

Design a series of classroom activities that develops a specific writing skill and improves
students’ performance with language.  The series should be integrated.  Defend your unit
as being both appropriate and worthwhile.

Working with your classmates, grade a set of student compositions.

What grading scale will you use?
What marks or comments will you make on the paper itself?
Defend your evaluative approach as being both appropriate and    worthwhile.

Design an integrated, thematic, instructional unit.

List the literary works you will use.
List the objectives you have in mind for the unit.
Prepare the handouts and other pertinent materials.
Write the final, “Proof-of-Purchase” exam for the unit, or explain what other means of assessment
you will use to determine that the students are now “new and improved.”