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

4

Dialect

March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Objectives:

Know what dialect is
Understand how dialect creates effects mood

Warm-up:
Pretend each person in the following situations asks you how you are feeling. Write a sentence or two, appropriate for the situation, answering the question.

Your at a black-tie ball, and a waiter politely asks…
Your at a concert, and that person you’ve noticed all night finally comes over [...]