Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013


Week 21, Day 3
Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

  1. Bell Work: An exact rhyme is that in which two or more words have identical sounds in their final stressed syllables, as in one/begun.  In slant rhyme, the final sounds are similar but not identical, as in one/stone.  Use the internet to find 10 exact rhymes and 10 slant rhymes.  
  2. Get back in your groups from yesterday (of 4.)
  3. Exchange the information you discovered about Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.  
  4. Discuss similarities and differences between the two poets and their writing style.  

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