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C2 AYA/ELA: Assignment help--Students as writers or readers?

by Julespalooza

May 6, 2018

I'm having trouble making decisions as far as which ones clearly demonstrate "students as writers".

Here's my dilemma: my English classes last semester wrote two full-length "formal" essays, but numerous analytical paragraphs, essay length reading journals--the works. One of the assignments--a literacy narrative--clearly showcases my students as writers. However, the other essay falls in a bit of a grey area: students composed an essay in which they chose one of several schools of lit criticism (psychoanalytic, marxist/social power, etc.) and interpreted the characters/events of A Midsummer Night's Dream through this lens. They are constructing an original argument...but it is in response to literature that we read in class. Same thing goes for an analytical paragraph about what Chaucer is satirizing via one of the pilgrims in the "General Prologue" of the Canterbury Tales. They responded to a prompt, but, again, it was about literature we read in class. Would either of these...See More

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