Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Week 21, Day 2

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: A writer intends to reach a particular audience.  Answer the questions that follow about how the audience affects what and how a writer writes.  How does the audience affect the subject matter?  How does the audience affect vocabulary?  How does the audience affect writing style?  How does the audience affect the organization of the essay?
2. Break up into groups of 4.
1. Take notes (you'll turn these into me and share with the rest of your group.)  Make sure all members of the group's name are on the document and share it with me via Google Docs.  
2. Two students from the group will read about Emily Dickinson (p. 404-406), the difference between exact rhyme and slant rhyme (p. 407), and read through her poetry.  Note Dickinson's use of the literary terms (exact rhyme and slant rhyme).
3. The other two students will read about Walt Whitman (p. 422-423), discuss what epic poetry, epit theme, style, free verse, long lines, catalogues, or lists, anaphora, diction, and onomatopoeia (p. 424-425), and read his 2 poems on the following pages.  
3. You'll have about 20-25 minutes to do this.  I will monitor progress and add more time, if needed.  
4. Then come back together and teach the other two in your group what you discovered.  If we need to, we can do the discussion part tomorrow.