Writing Strategy

Title of Strategy
Collaborative Collages/ Personal Narrative assignment
TEKS

(iii) analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic or rhetorical

devices

College and Career

Readiness
Standards

Edit writing for proper voice, tense, and syntax, assuring that it conforms to
standard English, when appropriate.

Detailed
Description of the
Writing Strategy

Students will get into groups and make collages to demonstrate their
interpretations and images of the De Vaca narrative. They will use
magazines to cut out pictures and then present to class to show these
events. Homework/in-class if time allows: Students get to pick between
writing a memoir or narrative and use consistent voice within.
Prewriting, drafting, The collages give topic/idea gathering tools to the students. They will
revising and
write the paper for an assignment, however, if time allows can work/start
editing? Use(s)?
in class. Peer review will be following the drafts.
Other variations
and/or
modifications?

This writing activity may be done in-class if time allows. Also after the
students present, they could also make outlines or timelines illustrating the
events for the assignment.

Considerations for
special populations
(ELL, ESOL,
struggling readers,
etc)

The collage assignment is designed to get images out of the students to

get them ready to write the paper. This would help struggling writers gain
topic insight. Also peer revision will also help them get more ideas on
editing.

References:
Graham, S., & Perin, D. (2007). Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of
adolescents in middle and high schools A report to Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education.