Mar

4

Onomatopoeia

March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Objectives:

Know what onomatopoeia is.
Understand how “sound-words” can convey meaning that strictly denotative words can’t.

Warm-up:
Describe a situation or a time when words could not express how you really felt, for example when something amazing or devastating happened, or when you felt uncomfortable or “on the spot.” What kinds of words/sounds came out of your mouth by [...]

Mar

2

Motif &/or Folk Tale

March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

*Note: All three of these lessons could be done separately (to keep them as “mini” as possible). This lesson covers three days; the first day focuses on the first song in the series & “Folk Tale,” where the kids’ application usually involves a quick write reflecting the elements of the genre study. The next day [...]

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. [...]