This assignment, a riff off of Ernest Hemingway's "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" flash fiction and Don Goble's Six Word Story, Six Unique Shots: Enhancing Writing Through Multimedia, allows students to write and show their literacy narrative.

Based on the truth that all students use different versions of the English language depending on their audience and purpose, the language challenge activity embraces the variety of cultures represented in your classroom and encourages exploration and collaboration.

Making an argument is an essential rhetorical skill, but one that can seem intimidating to students. Until they realize arguments are all around them, especially in commercials and infomercials. This assignment pairs to a written argument to solve a local problem and allows students to mimic querky, but effective, infomercial techniques as they create their own persuasive infomercial.

Paired with an piece of identity exploration, such as Randall Kenan's "Where Am I Black?" or Baratunde Thurston's "How to Be Black," this activity allows students to creatively define who they are and what it means to be them, given their culture and lived experience.

In this activity by the Apple Teacher program, students are encouraged to better articulate and share their personalities, cultures, and background with the class through a Keynote template and shapes, objects, pictures, and videos.

After reading Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," students are able to research the historical signficance of quilting and create their own quilt, highlighting their own culture and lived experiences.

Students enter the confessional booth several times a semester and creatively convey their experiences, frustrations, celebrations, goals, and areas of need in this intimate informal course feedback activity.