Student Design Board Games: An Alternative Assessment

Each Spring as I begin to move into my final units of the school year, most of the summative assessments that I’ve designed for students have been written assessments. Some years I’ve added in Socratic Seminars or other discussion formats. Other years we’ve had presentations. But, often I’m looking for some other assessments that break from these molds […]

Putting on Your Game Face: Card Games for Building Literary Analysis

I’m a frequent teacher, sometimes poet and occasional gamer. Once in a while, these identities collide. One such collision produced what I’m sharing today: Explicate, The Poetry Analysis Card Game.  Before we get into the details, let me say, this is free to download and use here. But, if for some reason, you want to […]