Here are some suggestions for additional course components and grading elements:

• The Glossary of Terms in the back is good information for weekly quizzes, mid-term tests, and/or final exams.
• To supplement the “Close Reading” lesson, students can clip editorial cartoons from local newspapers and analyze them according the elements listed in exercise 4.3.
• For that same lesson, students can explore other artwork on campus and come up with titles and/or captions.
• The instructor may wish to take students on a “close reading” journey by using a poem she or he is familiar with. Here are three poems I have used, but there are limitless numbers of good poems for this exercise:
  • Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems by William Carlos Williams
  • “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters,” by Portia Nelson
  • “Mushrooms,” by Sylvia Plath