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 [...]

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 [...]