Smart A$$: (Gamifying M.C. Practice)

To continually skill-n-drill students with multiple-choice tests is futile, especially if the goal is to improve their reading comprehension.

You can give your students a million practice tests … but what good will that do?

In this Smart A$$ gamified approach, not only will your students become far better readers of poetry and rhetorical texts, but they’ll in turn transfer these skills to their test taking endeavors.

Ultimately, it comes down to this — good test takers are good test takers because they know how to question a text.

Smart A$$ (Poetry Edition) & (Rhetorical Analysis Edition) aim to teach this skill set.

In the poetry edition video, we gamify three poems:

1. Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road by Robert Hershon

2. Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits by Martin Espada

3. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

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For the rhetorical analysis video, we look at the following speeches:

1. To What to the American Slave is Your 4th of July (Douglass)

2.There Comes a Time (MLK)

3.Upon Breaking the Streak (Cal Ripken Jr)

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Game slides available for download (look in description of video)

Happy teaching and happy writing!