First, I'm going to go over their homework. I won't have time to go over the vocabulary. They read On Discovery pg234 and Coming Home Again 244. I should focus on the relationship between The mother and son and how food is symbolic of their relationship.
Then I'll go into the lesson.
I'm going to start with Taylor Mali's How to write a Political Poem to illustrate ideas emphasis, parallelism, and length.
I'm going to give my students quick definitions of
Emphasis,
Loose and Periodic Sentences:
Loose Sentence-A sentence that introduces the main idea close to the beginning and concludes with a series of modifiers.
Periodic Sentences: A sentence that builds to the main idea.
Climax-
Parallelism-Grammatically similar words, phrases, and clauses arranged to highlight similar ideas.
Antithesis-The arrangement of contrasting ideas in grammatically similar phrases and clauses-The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. To be or not to be, that is the question., and
Length
I think it would be better to start with the reading Abe Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address. Then go into definitions and then point out the the writing skills that we just defined in the speech. Then I'm going to talk about Taylor Mali. I'll go over the poem, talk about it and then move on to MLK's essay entitled "Nonviolent Resistance."
At the end of class, I'll hand back their previous essays and offer suggestions for improvement.
For homework, they can write the assigned topic or they can write a political speech on a trivial campaign like the importance of pooper scoopers^^
Dan
Then I'll go into the lesson.
I'm going to start with Taylor Mali's How to write a Political Poem to illustrate ideas emphasis, parallelism, and length.
I'm going to give my students quick definitions of
Emphasis,
Loose and Periodic Sentences:
Loose Sentence-A sentence that introduces the main idea close to the beginning and concludes with a series of modifiers.
Periodic Sentences: A sentence that builds to the main idea.
Climax-
Parallelism-Grammatically similar words, phrases, and clauses arranged to highlight similar ideas.
Antithesis-The arrangement of contrasting ideas in grammatically similar phrases and clauses-The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. To be or not to be, that is the question., and
Length
I think it would be better to start with the reading Abe Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address. Then go into definitions and then point out the the writing skills that we just defined in the speech. Then I'm going to talk about Taylor Mali. I'll go over the poem, talk about it and then move on to MLK's essay entitled "Nonviolent Resistance."
At the end of class, I'll hand back their previous essays and offer suggestions for improvement.
For homework, they can write the assigned topic or they can write a political speech on a trivial campaign like the importance of pooper scoopers^^
Dan
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