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 [...]