My approach to teaching argumentative writing has usually focused on the claim and counterclaim. I also place a big emphasis on teaching rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos and logos. For me persuasion is […]
In reading this week’s articles, Momentos de Cambio: Cultivating Bilingual Students’ Epistemic Privilege through Memoir and Testimonio, I was able to draw some parallels from my own personal experience. The aut […]
“Using artifacts in the literacy curriculum creates opportunities for students to bring their home cultures into school. By tracing personal stories through artifacts, youth and their teachers connect, share, s […]
The last school I taught at had a semi-set curriculum which was created by an outside consultant that would regularly meet with the head of the English department or aka the English coach. Ironically, the […]