Mar
8
Foreshadowing/Prediction via Implication/Inference
March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Objectives:
Notice how an author uses hints to influence an audience by:
manipulating tone via word choice
using “negative indicators”
Understand the value in making predictions:
monitoring comprehension
making inferences
Warm-up:
Look at this famous optical illusion and explain how artists can use negative space to make meaning.
Mini Lesson:
Talk about what the students thought about the optical illusion.
Sometimes what is missing or left [...]
Mar
3
Rationale:
The magic of writing comes when an author and an audience harmonize–the author anticipates what the reader needs, and the reader feels like the author “gets” them. Mastery of this art means we can commune(icate) over centuries, across cultures and past other chasms that would divide us.
It’s not so unusual to feel this in conversation [...]
Mar
3
Audience vs. Speaker
March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sometimes students have a hard time distinguishing the speaker (particularly of a poem) from the author. The fact that authors pick specific speakers for their work is an important literary technique to develop meaning; not only does it lend subtext via the point of view, but often satire and other techniques are predicated upon [...]
Mar
2
Allusion and Implication & Inference
March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Objective (really one objective written from two different perspectives):
Understand how authors IMPLY meaning though ALLUSION
Know how to INFER meaning by investigating references
Warm-up
Read the following excerpt from the Worsley OnLine school project
An allusion is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two. [...]
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