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Kernel Essays: Reviving The Essay Gretchen Bernabei How To Teach Structure Without Formula
Kernel Essays: Reviving The Essay Gretchen Bernabei How To Teach Structure Without Formula
•Possibilities
•Freedom
•Feedback
If we
• assign the essay,
• choose the prompt,
• choose the structure
• and choose the feedback,
we shouldn’t…
really complain if we can’t find
the student anywhere in the
essay.
And we…
really have no right to complain too
much if the essays all sound the same.
Students have followed our directions.
Teachers need three things in order to produce
their own most prized teaching:
•Possibilities
•Freedom
•Feedback
Truisms
– also called thematic statements, or
life lessons. These are statements that are
true for most people. (This makes them
debatable.)
Truisms