Mar

5

Setting

March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Objectives:

Know what setting is
Understand how setting is communicated through context clues

Warm-up:
In your learning log, paraphrase the following definition:
(Holman, C. Hugh, and William Harmon. “Setting.” A Handbook to Literature. 5th ed. 1 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1986.)
The physical, and sometimes spiritual, background against which the action of a narrative takes place. The [...]

Mar

1

Sentence Fluency

March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

*Note to teacher:

“Fluency” is a term that seems confused in education…especially in writing instruction.
I’ve heard teachers talk about “fluency” as being the ease to which a student can put words and sentences down on the page. I contend that this is not fluency, but automaticity or expertise.
Fluency (for the purposes of this lesson) is [...]