Curriculum and Instruction
The section offers resources for planning and designing your curriculum, as well as tools that you can use to augment your classroom activities.
Resources for Grades 6-12
Marilyn Roitman, English teacher from Kahuku High, is a statewide trainer in expository writing. She provides an overview of the new expository reading and writing requirements, using the California State University model, which Hawai‘i has adopted, and demonstrates how you can use the CSU model to design and improve your own curriculum.
This publication is a result of a collaboration between high school faculty, college faculty and private employers on the Big Island. It contains "anchor" papers that illustrate the level of writing expected of students starting an entry-level college writing course, or entering the workforce out of high school.
This publication is a result of a collaboration between high school faculty, college faculty and private employers on the Big Island. It contains "anchor" papers that illustrate the level of writing expected of students starting an entry-level college writing course, or entering the workforce out of high school.
Resources for College-level
Several WCC instructors list typical assignments that they give in their English 100 composition courses.
Handout: Summary and Opinion Teaching
Handout: Templates for Summary and Opinion
Handout: Ways to Introduce an Ongoing Argument or Debate
Handout: Don't Be a Hit and Run Quoter
SQOOCH Protocol
WCC instructor Lance Uyeda introduces the SQOOCH protocol and language for giving peer feedback in a writing workshop. The SQOOCH handout was developed by professor Krista Hiser, from Kapiolani Community College.
This game, designed by WCC instructor Janine Oshiro, gives students practice in identifying sentence types.
- "They Say, I Say"
Handout: Summary and Opinion Teaching
Handout: Templates for Summary and Opinion
Handout: Ways to Introduce an Ongoing Argument or Debate
Handout: Don't Be a Hit and Run Quoter
SQOOCH Protocol
WCC instructor Lance Uyeda introduces the SQOOCH protocol and language for giving peer feedback in a writing workshop. The SQOOCH handout was developed by professor Krista Hiser, from Kapiolani Community College.
This game, designed by WCC instructor Janine Oshiro, gives students practice in identifying sentence types.
Header photos (left to right): 1. WCC drama instructor Nick Logue tries to scare Choryn Beall (Kailua) and Taylor Cook (Kahuku) in a summer Upward Bound class. 2. A student creates her sculpture in the WCC ceramics lab. 3. Kailua High School English teachers Kehau Agena (seated, second from right) and Jill LaBoy with their Upward Bound students (from left) Gabrielle Reney, Iwalani Akim, Daryl-Jean Chun-Pascaia and Gregory Campos.