Michelle LaFrance: Teaching Portfolio

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Course Syllabi

English 131—The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves
English 111—Reading Film for Academic Writing
English 121—Youth and the City
English 242—Immigrant Melting Pot or the Ethnic Other (Half)?
English 250—Mythologies of New Orleans in American Literature

English 197 (IWP Writing Link)—
Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature

GIS 140 (Early Fall Start)—Early Fall 2008
Writing Ready: Getting a Head Start on Writing for College

Antioch U Seattle—Spring 2005
HUM 451: The Horrible, the Freakish, and the Sublime: Monsters in the Literary Imagination

Exercises and Handouts
Writing Assignment 1—Seeing Beyond Belief
Writing Assignment 2—On Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play"
Writing Assignment 3—Literacy Narrative

Writing Critical Essays
Writing Argumentative Claims

What is Close Reading?
How to do a "Close Reading"
How to Read (Deconstruct) a Photograph

Reading Questions Foucualt's Panopticon

"A Man in a Field" (for ESL Conversation Practice)

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Eamples of Student Work
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Proposed Syllabi
History and Memory through Comics
Postmodern Fairy Tales

Other
CIDR TA Training—"De-Centering Your Classroom" Handout
CIDR TA Training—"
Responding to Student Writing" Handout

Guest Lecture on Scottish Gàidhlig--01.19.2009 Seattle Pacific University

 

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