SAH Commons | Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/gstecher/activity/ Activity feed for Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ad52c490364293ff9f2d33e6c84d3440 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1925068/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:33:24 -0400 0 eb4627a246e9fa9d055eca0c4802cfae Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919741/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:45:05 -0400 0 399884208d7ecee7065ce2d6bc4904fa Gabrielle Stecher deposited Understanding Genre: A Collaborative Activity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896260/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:42:04 -0400 This activity aims to help students collaboratively build foundational knowledge of genre conventions. It was initially designed for literature courses but can easily be adapted for other courses incorporating genre study.

]]> 0 ecb5313ecfd93f1779963d03c0390d73 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Paragraph Mapping (Worksheet Only) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895781/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:41:47 -0400 In order to effectively analyze the entirety of a rigorous text, whether it be a primary or secondary source, students need to hone their comprehension and analysis skills. This activity empowers students to practice their close reading skills by unpacking one part of a larger whole. Paragraph mapping is a visual close reading strategy that begins…[Read more]

]]> 0 8102cccb56ab8e1e90f55283e808e6e4 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Paragraph Mapping: A Strategy for Teaching Close Reading & Analysis Skills https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895713/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:01:27 -0400 In order to effectively analyze the entirety of a rigorous text, whether it be a primary or secondary source, students need to hone their comprehension and analysis skills. This activity empowers students to practice their close reading skills by unpacking one part of a larger whole. Paragraph mapping is a visual close reading strategy that begins…[Read more]

]]> 0 db391c71b00f086d76cb09b21f117058 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891497/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:09:13 -0400 0 b651c7a04ddc796d6cbd0b003a880954 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Fragment 16 by Sappho: A Deciphering Ancient Texts Reading Guide https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886897/ Wed, 22 May 2024 20:07:28 -0400 This document introduces students to Sappho’s Fragment 16 (“To Anactoria”) through a series of guiding questions, annotations, and comparative translations.

This series of open-access introductory reading guides is intended for use in general education literature courses but can be adapted for a variety of classroom contexts. By making ancient…[Read more]

]]> 0 42fb8b482a516f10d9fae6c63b609959 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Discussion Activity: Roll the Dice https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885403/ Mon, 06 May 2024 15:53:14 -0400 If you are looking for a way to not only assess content knowledge or reading comprehension but also get students thinking metacognitively, then this activity is for you.

]]> 0 2f116f9452d3577ec0a3f668f70ed139 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Multimodal Project: Anatomy of a Genre https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884957/ Thu, 02 May 2024 18:15:32 -0400 How do genres work, and how can we assess students’ understanding of their makeup? This assignment includes a three-pronged essay component and a multimodal remediation, allowing students to distill and translate their genre study into a new learning object. This assignment can easily be applied to the study of any artistic genre (literature, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 06f7e9df1f630634dcfc733e2dbe13ce Gabrielle Stecher deposited The Creator Portfolio https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878538/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:41:26 -0500 Creativity, as a transferrable competency, is career agnostic. Now more than ever, career readiness means empowering students as creators in digital spaces, and our assessment practices can play a role in realizing this pursuit. The Creator Portfolio, an iterative capstone project, creates space for metacognitive thinking while leveraging design…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd07c6e35554b3a6b16e1b50c317cec0 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Primary versus Secondary Sources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877872/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:14:35 -0500 This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the difference between primary and secondary sources.

]]> 0 b6eceafe9c95f05c2bb6bb52d2632ad7 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Summary vs Paraphrase vs Quotation Quick Guide https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877777/ Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:02:24 -0500 This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and directly quoting a source.

]]> 0 86e5716f5799a40923e713a51791320e Gabrielle Stecher deposited Quick Guide: Peer Reviewing Essays https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877776/ Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:46:42 -0500 This handout or quick-reference guide recaps the purpose of peer review and provides a series of guiding questions that prompt students to respond to an essay’s thesis statement, structure, and use of evidence.

]]> 0 11d8f0d77e1adc024a3a66b340ca4cca Gabrielle Stecher deposited What is a Research Proposal? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877513/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:43:40 -0500 This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the genre of the humanities research proposal and its key components.

]]> 0 edf88edb57ff77c01100af31305df3a4 Gabrielle Stecher deposited What is an Annotated Bibliography? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877510/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:59:41 -0500 This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the genre of the annotated bibliography and includes a four-step process for crafting annotations.

]]> 0 9d72bf33676d26ed24329967766888ca Gabrielle Stecher deposited What is Multimodality? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876928/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 01:14:15 -0500 This quick-reference handout defines multimodality and the five modes of communication (linguistic, visual, spatial, gestural, and aural) for students in writing & digital projects-based courses.

]]> 0 c653d53902e14c606f5c7d484572ff0f Gabrielle Stecher deposited From Text to Image: Teaching Remediation Basics with Social Media Image Production https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871034/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:50:37 -0500 In this activity, students remediate content originally published as a written text into an image or graphic for a social media platform such as Instagram.

Remediation assignments, which are especially popular in multimodal composition courses, task students with taking material presented in one medium, considering and preserving its essence,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2bbad3a795fc88bfe77b980b534306e Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867896/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:24:21 -0500 0 c5e9baee6d3ef386f5e77e8775a29bd1 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867336/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:07:19 -0500 0 6193543bb8e9b900c6bd2f936188923e Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867097/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:56:06 -0500 0 5e6acc700ed8e67aa0c0a7ab8771f7c1 Gabrielle Stecher deposited The Creativity Matrix https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859731/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:37:48 -0400 The Creativity Matrix is a tool for students to define creativity on their own terms. It encourages them to articulate how they identify and/or perceive themselves as creative, and it creates space for articulating short- and long-term goals and ideal conditions for creating.

]]> 0 72b5a7e593f695e6b51b38595560e98a Gabrielle Stecher deposited Digital Skills Crescendo https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854882/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:18:44 -0400 I created this resource to help students in my ENG-W171: Projects in Digital Literacy and Composition visualize at a glance how the digital skills they were learning were scaffolded. The Crescendo outlines the digital tools used to produce a set of deliverables, culminating in a carefully branded and curated portfolio at the end of the semester.…[Read more]

]]> 0 82f6db5843853bd31dfa5e1a1fedd745 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Teaching Close Reading Through Social Annotation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854830/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:00:55 -0400 This activity, using the social annotation tool Hypothesis, encourages students to become more attentive readers and thoughtful collaborators.

]]> 0 0c398f793b3ca10b0ad0d521c540ddaa Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843687/ Thu, 04 May 2023 20:21:55 -0400 0 6641b13b8bb2c7e13034d745cfb31a43 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1837788/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:15:57 -0400 0 b473e8dc89bcf1be9fea46888fc079c0 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1834396/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:19:33 -0500 0 bfc27fdf402f0eb449f0951c982be31c Gabrielle Stecher deposited Women of Colour: Using Corpus Analysis for Introducing Representations of Race in Nineteenth-Century Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821804/ Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:39:37 -0500 As a digital humanities tool, corpus analysis allows students to visually map language use. Adopted as a tool for anti-racist pedagogy, corpus analysis allows us to recognize from a distance the role race plays in a given text, visualizing its prominences, patterns, and even silences. Because the tools used in corpus analysis strip context and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b5fe73b0899fed49ca2a9b3b1c83cc2 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Multimodal Project: Designing a Book Cover https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818211/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:20:25 -0400 For this assignment, students imagine that they have been hired as graphic designers for a university press. Their first on-the-job assignment is to design a book cover (using Canva’s free book cover template, Microsoft Publisher, Google Slides, or Adobe Illustrator) for a new edition of the novel we are studying. There are two components to t…[Read more]

]]> 0 93cd54c6b1263a7d370f79ddf7a05019 Gabrielle Stecher deposited Revising Introductions Activity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818210/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:14:43 -0400 This active learning activity tasks students with both peer reviewing and revising essay introductions. In small groups, students move through multiple rounds as they comment on another group’s anonymized introductions. The Revising Introductions activity is an opportunity for students to practice identifying and constructively critiquing the…[Read more]

]]> 0 31f231be55839b43a7623131b28babe3 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818209/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:03:40 -0400 0 a505b1afb4ef6247d733c847c38aacf1 Gabrielle Stecher Woodward, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818208/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:03:05 -0400 0