I have three assignments I do with my AP Language students using wikis. They do a History of American Literature web page, which is just a glorified annotated bibliography of web source information on the authors we study. Emperor Notes, which are student authored "Cliff Notes" that they work on in groups to produce. I give them an outline to follow through the project to keep them somewhat focused, but when done they have a 30-40 page booklet that they have written in their groups (they usually have a number of weeks to work on this). The third thing is I have the AP students work in groups to create a glossary of rhetorical terms. That's what I do.
Bryan Lee on 06 Jul 10This article was cited on the AP English Listserv, and could be paired with several articles about trends in American reading. Come to think of it, this could contain the recent article about comparative reading speeds of the page versus the Kindle.
