I found some favorites and shared a collection of links to “Analysis in the Real World” on my class website: welcome to Vulture, NPR’s “Monkey See,”, ALDaily and other fun corners of the internet, kids!Īfter posting that list, I created a Google form, a place for students to share what they read and perform some self-guided sentence studies. The #mentortext Twitter thread is full of rich, fresh, contemporary analytical writing to share with students. I thought that one remedy for what ailed my writers was a steadier diet of real-world analysis. How could I help them express themselves clearly? How could I weave more writing instruction into an advanced literature course (at a new school with a new rotational schedule that I’m still figuring out) without sacrificing the curriculum hours required by the course? They are perceptive readers who share complex ideas about literature during class discussion, but their analytical writing was convoluted, tortured, and, often, nonsensical. Survey says…I was wrong! Join me today as I learn from my mistakes and try to make a “beautiful oops.”Įarlier this semester, I noticed that my seniors seemed to struggle with on-demand literary analysis.
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