Language Context Matters

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What You Say: Language Context Matters Resource ID#: 56900 Primary Type: Lesson Plan This document was generated on CPALMS - www.cpalms.org In this lesson students will analyze three texts (Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue," Richard Rodriguez's "Se Habla Espanol," and Zora Neale Hurston's "How it Feels to be Colored Me") looking at language, tone, and style. Students will be scaffolded through use of graphic organizers and a Socratic Seminar to culminate in an essay about tone. Subject(s): English Language Arts Grade Level(s): 9, 10 Intended Audience: Educators Suggested Technology: Computer for Presenter, Internet Connection, LCD Projector, Overhead Projector Instructional Time: 5 Hour(s) Resource supports reading in…show more content…
Students will also complete a writing assignment to examine the planning for the desegregation of schools and the government's role in that planning. Students gain insight into the reasons why World War I had such a profound impact on the United States in the years Letters Back Home: A Soldier's following the war by reading letters that one soldier wrote to his family back home. Students will then assume the role Perspective on World War I: of a soldier and write a letter back home to a family member reflecting what they have learned about WWI. This activity should be completed before reading the essay "Beach People, Mountain People" by Suzanne Britt. Analyzing Author Style Using Students will combine three sets of kernel sentences based on the first paragraph of Britt's writing. They will then Sentence Combining: compare their sentences to Britt's. The class will discuss what sentence combining strategy or strategies they used and observe how Britt varies her sentences. Cause and Effect Writing: Students examine the causes and effects presented in a brochure called "Ozone: The Good and the Bad." They…show more content…
Students will discover by looking as word choice and sentence structure how language styles Diction and Syntax from Civil have changed over time. After the reading lesson, students will write two RAFTs in the style of the times to show their War Times to the Present: understanding. In this lesson, students will read and analyze literary devices used in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." They will read the first part of the story with support and modeling from the teacher, the next part in small Creating Suspense Lesson 1: groups, and the final section on their own. Students will examine Poe's use of imagery, foreshadowing, simile, Analyzing Literary Devices in personification, symbolism, and characterization. Students will also use various strategies to determine the meaning

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