Following are more examples of warmup assignments. These are intended for Week Two. From here on, you can begin to create and use your own; keeping in mind that one can’t always please everyone, but being flexible enough to modify them if necessary.
Warm-up assignments are fairly easy to create. One can explore student interests outside the classroom. Be imaginative, venturesome. Turn to events in history, general interest articles, or television programs in branches of science, sociology, to current events.
Students should not feel warm-up assignments are busy work. They should welcome them as they would welcome freewriting. With the exception of the latter, as often as humanly possible, try not to repeat warm-up assignments. They lose their lustre and capacity to challenge.