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DOCUMENT RESUME CS 210 066 ED 273 985 Thinking. Classroom TITLE Activities to Promote Critical Practices in Teaching English,1986. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers ofEnglish, Urbana, /11. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-0045-7 PUB DATE 86 NOTE 158p.; Prepared by the NCTECommittee on Classroom Practices in Teaching English. AVAILABLE FROMNational Council of Teachers ofEnglish, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801(Stock No. 00457, $7.00 member, $9.75 nonmember). PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Guides -Classroom Use - Guides (For Teachers) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Content Area Writing;*Creative Thinking; *Critical Thinking; Elementary SecondaryEducation; Higher Education; Literature Appreciation;Reading Writing Relationship; Speech Skills; *TeachingMethods; Writing Instruction ABINTACT thinking language and communication studyin such a way that significant Intended to involve students in teach literature and compositionthat engage occurs, this collection ofteaching ideas outlines ways to problem processes as inferring,sequencing, predicting, classifying, the students in such thinking categories for composition, speakingand solving, and synthesizinr. Theactivities are divided into and additional creative and criticalthinking activities, and speaking listening, literature st. hi. their authors are as follows:(1) "Using the writing across the curricLium.The titles of the essays and (2) "The and Writing in the ElementaryGrades" (Raymond Bailey); Poetic Voice to Teach Story Forms 'Writing A Thesis Statement: A Metaphor as a Metaphor for EnglishClass" (Carole B. Bencich); (3) ESL Boiarsky); (4) 'Justice Is a NikeT-Shirt: Using Synectics in the Right-Brain Activity" (Carolyn (Denise J. Wigand and Kathleen Writing Class" (Nancy Pfingstag);(5) 'Whose Territory? Watch It!" (7) "From Tool for Teaching StraightThinking" (Walter F. Utroske); Smith-Meadows); (6) "The Sentence: A Skills" (Deborah J. Barrett); 'Thinking Man' to 'Man Thinking':Exercises Requiring Problem-Solving (9) "Teaching Critical Listening" (8)*Protocol Analysis for the StudentWriter" (Gyde Christine Martin); Peer Teaching/Learning Unit'(Margaret E. Rinkel); (11) (Mary Bozik); (10) °Each One Teach One: A (12) Questioning: A Collaborative ClassroomProject° (Mary H. Oestereicher); ' Teaching Thinking through (13) °Three R's for Critical Thinking o Modified Oxford Debate for AdvancedNinth Graders' (Fran Caldwell); and Responding" (John W. Swopeand Edgar H. Thompson); (14) about Literature: Reading. 'R1t1ng. Interpretation" (Sam Dragga); °Experiencing Contemporary Drama'(George Klawitter); (15) 'Collaborative to Literature° (MichaelSegedy); (17) 'Collection, Connection, (16) "Adapting the Courtroom Trial Format Skills' (Joseph F. Bonfiglio); (18) Projection: Using Written and OralPresentation to Encourage Thinking Fiderer): (19) °The Spheres of Experience:A Schema Theory for Writers" o Write on the Reading!" (Adele Dilemmas" (Ruth Vinz); (21) 'Right On,Right Answers" (Lee (Jeanne Gunner); (20) °Thinking through 'Critical Thinking through a Communityof Inquiry" (Kristine Riemann Mountain and Sharon Crawley); (22) Thinking" (Leah Rudasill) (24) "The and Tony W. Johnson); (23)'Advertising Gimmicks: Teac:ting Critical Engli.n Curriculum' (Angela A.Rapkin); (25) "Helping Students Write Uses of Logic in the College Freshman Taking Risks with Expressive Historical Fiction' (Myra Zarnowski);(26) 'Exposing the Edge of Thought: (27) "Math-Writing and Thinking"(Adele Fiderer); (28) "Teaching Language" (Denise Stavis Levine); Moon). (HTH) Critical Thinking to ManagementStudents" (Joan M. van Courtland _ 0,Le`t Activities to Promote Critical Thinking Classroom Practices in leachhig English, 1986 Jeff Golub, Chair, and the Committee on Classroom Practices U.S. DEPARTMENT DF EDUCATION Office ot Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) *This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view Of opinionsstated in thisdocu- ment do not necesaarily represent official OERI position or policy "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY NCTE TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." National Council of Teachers of English 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801 BEST COPY AVAI! E Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Duck-rabbit illustration fromPhilosophical Investigations,3c1 ed., by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Macmillan, 1970. Reproduced with permission of Basil Blackwdl Limited, OxforA. Hidden word puzzle fromFun and Trkks for Young Scientistsby George Barr, McGraw-Hill, 1968. Reproduced with permission of author. Excerpt from "The Gift of Life" by Phillip Doughtie fromUnderstanding Human Communicationby Ronald B. Adler and George R. Rodman, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from "The Caffein Concern" by Christine Murphy fromThe Art of PublicSpeaking, edited by Stephen E. Lucas, Random House, 1983. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr. Copyright c1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr. Reprinted wtih permission of Joan Daves. Jigsaw puzzles from Fun with Puzzlesby Joseph Leeming, J. B. Lippincott, 1946. Reprodnced witb f.iermission. NCTE Eclitor1 Board: Candy Carter, Lee Galda, Donald R. Gallo, Delores Lipscomb, Ttion4as Newkirk, Jane Christensen, ex officio, Paul O'Dea,ex officio Staff Editor: .Jane M. Curran Book Design: limn Kovacs for TGK Design NCTE Stock Number 00457 1986 by the National Council of "feacheits of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to zny particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Direcmrs, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Activities to promote critical thinking. Includes bibliographies. I. English philologyStudy and teaching.2. English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teaching. 3. English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching. 4. Thought and thinkingStudy and teaching.5. Creative thinking (Education).6. Language arts.I. Golub, Jeff. II. National Council of Teachers of English. Committee on Classroom Practices. PE66.A331986 428..007'1 86-21741 ISBN 0-8141-0045-7 3 NCTE Committee on Classroom Practices in Teaching English Jafc;o1111),, Chair, Slunverest High School, StNatle, Washington Beverly A. tinselling. University of South Carolina, (Aumbia Carlota Cardenas 4Ie Dwyer, Clark High School, San Anumio, 'I;xas Jane NI. Hornburger, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New Thrk James (:. I.omlaAcademy, Wilmette, Illinois Joseph Milner, Wake Forest Universite; Winston-Salem, North Carolimt Patricia Phelan, Iniversity City High School, San Diego, California 4 Contents Introduction ix 1 Composition Activities 1 Using the Poetic Voice to Teach Story 1ins and Writing in the Elementary Grades 3 Raymond Bailey The Metaphor as a Metaphor for English Class 7 Carole B. Bencich Writing a Thesis Statement: A Right-Brain Activity 11 Carolyn Boiarsky Justice Is a Nike T-Shirt: Using Synectics in the ESL Writing Class 19 Nancy Pfingstag Whose Territory? Watch It! 27 Denise J. Wigand and Kathleen Smith-Meadows The Sentence: A Tool for Teaching Straight Thinking 34 Walter F. Utroske From "Thinking Man" to "Man Thinking": Exercises Requiring Problem-Solving Skills 39 Deborah J. Barrett Protocol Analysis for the Student Writer 47 Gyde Christine Martin 2 Speaking and Listening Activities 53 Teaching Critical Listening 55 Mary Bozik 5 -1111 vi Content% Each One 'leach One: A Peer 'leaching/Learning Unit 60 Margaret E. Rinkel leaching fhinking through Questioning: A Collaborative Classroom Project 62 Mary H. Oestercicher Modified Oxfnrd Debate for Advanced Ninth Graders 67 Fran Caldwell 3 Activities to Accompany Literature Study 73 Three R's for Critical Thinking about literature: Reading, 'Riting, and Responding / -r John W Swope and Edgar H. Thompson Experieacing Contemporary Drama 80 George Klawitter Collaborative Interpretation 84 Sam Dragga Adapting the Courtroom Trial Format to Literature 88 Michael Segedy Collection, Connection. Projection: Using Written and Oral Presentation to Encourage Thinking Skills 93 Joseph E Bonfiglio Write on the Reading! 97 Adele Fiderer The Spheres of Experience: A Schema Theory for Writers 102 Jeanne Gunner Thinking through Dilemmas 107 Ruth Vinz 4 Additional Creative and Critical Thinking Activities 113 Right On, Right Answers 115 Lee Mountain and Sharon Crawley Critical Thinking through a Community of Inquiry 121 Kristine Riemann and Tony W. Johnson 6 vii Advertising Gimmicks: 'N.-aching ':ritkal Thinking 127 Leah Rudasill The !Uses of Logic in the College Freshman English Curriculum 130 Angela A. Rapkin 5 Speaking and Writing Activities acr iss the Curriculum 137 Helping Students Write Historical Fiction 139 Myra Larnowski Exposing the Edge of "Fhought: 'taking Risks with Expressive Language 144 Denise Stavis Levine Math-Writing and Thinking 148 Adele Fiderer Teaching Critical Thinking to Management Students 152 Joan M. van Courtland Moon Introduction Each November the members of the Cm-minceon Classroom Practices