MERLOT Materials

My Brief but Spectacular Take includes two assignments for developing public speaking skills, both sourced in the PBS... see more

Asking students to self-assess their engagement, participation, and attendance in a class helps them demonstrate... see more

The Definition Dance activity and discussion ask students to examine common terms associated with race, antiracism, and... see more

Creating Community Agreements is an in-class activity for use early in the term. Students review the National... see more

This small group activity gives students practice with perspective-taking and urges them to engage in civil discourse... see more

This in-class activity, Practicing V-NV Delivery & Oral Citations is useful in the weeks preceeding students' first... see more

Privileges for Sale builds on Peggy McIntosh's concept of white privilege with an in-class small group activity. Students... see more

Recognizing and Responding to Microagressions is an in-class activity to help students recognize microaggressions, avoid... see more

Understanding Ethnocentrism with Hip Hop Lyrics is an in-class activity to understand the concept of ethnocentrism,... see more

This I Believe is a lower-stakes speech assignment intended to help students build a classroom community early in the... see more

This lower-stakes Poem Speech Performance Assignment provides students anopportunity to get comfortable with public... see more

I Am / We Are Poems are scaffolded oral performance assignments for working with identity, the perception process,... see more

Issues of Race & Social Justice in the U.S. is a speech assignment that has students work in small groups to research an... see more

What's in a System? is a scaffolded set of assignments that inform participants about the nuances of a social system of... see more

Three Ways to Tell a Story introduces students to code-switching and how communicators adapt verbal and nonverbal... see more