A checklist to be used by elementary students to make sure they have met all of the requirements of their article.
A rubric in student language for elementary students to use to self-assess the quality of a biographical article for a magazine.
A checklist in student language to help elementary students manage their time efficiently while they are putting together a magazine.
A rubric to help elementary student groups create a magazine that meets high standards of quality.
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harper's Editor Emeritus Lewis Lapham for a discussion of his career and the history of Harper's Magazine. Lapham compares print to electronic media, analyzes the corruption of language by politics, and reflects on the incompatibility of democracy and empire. He concludes with a devastating critique of the Bush administration and its impeachable offenses. (59 min)
In this activity, students will be identifying French cognates in a French magazine article. They will also have the opportunity to practice their comprehension of cognates with bingo.
The goal of this course is to review grammar and develop vocabulary building strategies to refine oral and written expression. Speaking and writing assignments are designed to expand communicative competence. Assignments are based on models and materials drawn from contemporary media (newspapers and magazines, television, Web). The models, materials, topics and assignments vary from semester to semester.