Teaching Portfolio
Charles Hunter Joplin
Composition II
This syllabus focuses on persuasive and researsched writing, privileges critical thought and synthesis, and is themed around the concepts of "monsters" and "monstrosity.
This schedule is designed to acquaint studentswith intriguing stories and articles that concern monstrosity in 20th century media as well as textbook chapters which expand their methodology and skills.
Syllabus
Schedule
Teaching Artifacts
This assignment asks you to examine an image or a pair of images—be it an advertisement, a news image, or a Facebook photo—for what those images and their accompanying text reveal about the cultural values of the creator, its intended audience, and how it might influence its audience’s actions and beliefs.
Project 1:
Rhetorical Analysis
Project 2:
Image Analysis
This assignment asks students to examine a selection from our textbook and both summarize and analyze what the text reveals about the cultural values of the creator, its intended audience, and how it might influence its audience’s actions and beliefs.
Project 3:
Multi-Genre Research Project
This assignmet asks students to write a lengthy research essay that investigates a particular social problem of their choice, be it local or widespread, and somehow draws from a specific issue related to monsters or monstrosity. This project is the culmination of their previous two assignments and requires the ability to critique both texts and images.
Lesson Plan:
Finding Significance
This lesson plan is an example of the kind of lesson plans I implement in most class sessions. I used this lesson plan to teach the concept of "angle" pertaining to an analytical report and encouraged different kinds of field research.