Instructional materials on local history topics developed by students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for use in secondary education classrooms.

This lesson plan examines school desegregation in Chattanooga after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The purpose of this lesson is for students to gain an understanding of Chattanooga’s complex and prolonged process of school desegregation through reading critically and analyzing primary sources. Students will develop the skills necessary to analyze primary sources and synthesize different perspectives as well as link them to other course materials.

Instructional materials on local history topics developed by students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for use in secondary education classrooms.

This is a one-day 60-minute lesson plan that covers the impact of integration at a local level by focusing on the decision and responses to desegregate the University of Chattanooga. The purpose of this lesson is to expand students’ knowledge of Chattanooga’s history through analysis of primary sources. Students will identify major milestones of post-secondary institutional desegregation and describe the impact it had on Chattanooga and its university community in the 100 years following the ratification of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ninth grade students will work together to examine the primary source excerpts in order to understand desegregation of the University of Chattanooga as a process. This understanding will allow students to more fully grasp the necessity of action to attain implementation. Students will develop an understanding of how cooperation on varied levels and involvement from individuals
and groups with diverse interests result in the attainment of a desired goal. Additionally, having access to primary sources will help students learn to deconstruct different arguments in favor of and opposed to integration. This primary source analysis will also illustrate how multi-faceted a source can be. Students will learn how to mine information, while also appreciating that primary sources can be ambiguous.

This video presents "comparison and contrast" as a rhetorical mode.  Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, and/or a full transcript.

This lecture presents "Definition" as a rhetorical mode.  The lecture is offered in three different formats: a video without captions, a video with captions, and a full transcript.

This video presents "description" as a rhetorical mode.  Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, or a full transcript.

This video presents "division and classification" as a rhetorical mode.  Students can select a captioned version, an un-captioned version, and/or a full transcript.

This lecture introduces figurative language or "figures of speech"--including metaphor, simile, and personification--and provides examples of their use in everyday, literary, and academic writing.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video with captions, video without captions, and a text transcript.

This lecture presents Illustration as a rhetorical mode for composition.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full text transcript.

This lecture is intended to help writers to recognize and avoid mixed metaphors and malaprop in their own writing and others'.  These are common errors in writing and speaking that are especially common in English, which is full of "invisible" figurative language.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full transcript.

This video presents "narration" as a rhetorical mode.  Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, and/or a full transcript.

This lecture reviews "comparison and contrast" as a rhetorical mode by indentifying it in reading selections.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript. 

This lecture reviews "cause and effect" analysis as a rhetorical mode by indentifying it in reading selections.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript.

This lecture will discuss common grammar errors and stylistic weaknesses in college students' writing--including problems like run-ons, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and illogical tense shifts--and will suggest ways to revise confusing sentences and paragraphs.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full transcript.

Along with the Excel templates, we are also creating video tutorials for our students to help them become familiar with spreadsheets. These videos are recorded using MS Teams, then posted under course content page on the D2L course site (eLearn). Students have access to these videos wherever they have internet access. Students may also download and save these videos if need be. Following are the first two video tutorials (also attached with this section).Excel BasicsFrequency Distributions

This lecture defines and distinguishes between abstract and concrete language, explaining how to use both effectively in composition.

This video explains how facts and short examples can be used to illustrate a point in composition.

This lecture presents Process Analysis as a rhetorical mode for composition.  The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript.

Material created for an exhibition curated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections.

Series of five posters describing various aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga Tennessee, including reproductions of primary source materials.
Chattanooga Divided: The Fight for School Desegregation
“Protest for Dignity”: Black Power in Chattanooga
Recovering Perspectives: Desegregation of the University of Chattanooga
White Opposition to a Changing Chattanooga
Chattanooga Youth Activism: How Howard Students Impacted the Civil Rights Movement

 This module will introduce students to Intermediate Academic English.  Students will review the learning outcomes for the course and course policies. They will send an email to the instructor, write an introductory paragraph, and begin reviewing verb tenses.