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

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

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

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 [...]