Prompts, Sample Assignments, and Useful Tools

I believe students need scaffolding to write well and to generate analysis. In order to facilitate my students, I teach this formula for writing an analytical paragraph, the TEA Cup Formula.

English 101 Analytical Paragraph Prompts
I use these in this order to help my students understand concepts of rhetoric as well as to practice writing analysis.



English 101 Writing Project 4: Revision


Star Trek Club Syllabus and Prompts
I hosted an informal club as a class on episodes of Star Trek from across The Original Series and the four series of the nineties. The list of episodes and my accompanying prompts can be found here.


Literary-Analysis Essay Prompts
A collection of the prompts I have developed over the years in my tutoring classic literature to 4th-12th graders, ranging from The Wizard of Oz to Macbeth.