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ELA Core. August 24, 2011. Pre-Class. Identify the tone for the following situations : a funeral graduation day your best friend’s birthday party a fight with your parent. Activity 1.3 .
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ELA Core August 24, 2011
Pre-Class Identify the tone for the following situations: • a funeral • graduation day • your best friend’s birthday party • a fight with your parent
Activity 1.3 • Block 1: Look up words that we don’t know on http://www.merriam-webster.com/. After looking up our unknown words, we’ll place the words in the appropriate boxes on the left side of page 8. • All Blocks: Finish Page 9 • Find the 8 words that don’t fit in the categories on page 8. • Create a category for these words.
HOMEWORK • COMPLETE THE BOTTOM PART OF PAGE 9: • ANALYZE THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE ONE OF THE TONE WORDS FROM PAGE 8 THAT YOU THINK BEST DESCRIBES THE TONE. HIGHLIGHT (OR UNDERLINE) THE PHRASES OR WORDS THAT SUGGEST THE TONE. • I WILL BE GRADING THIS! (MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS FOR HOMEWORK AND THAT YOU DO IT WELL.)
Activity 1.4 • Read the title of the poem and predict what the poem is about.
Activity 1.4 • Read aloud the poem “A Man.”
Activity 1.4 • How might this man be considered to be a hero? • What is the challenge of his life now after the war?
Activity 1.4 • A stanza is a group of lines, usually similar in length and pattern, that form a unit within a poem. • Why do you think the author chose to divide the poem into two stanzas?
Activity 1.4 • Underline the last two lines of the poem. • Are these two lines meant to be taken literally (denotation) or figuratively (connotation)?
Activity 1.4 • Class TPCASTT
Activity 1.4 • Before reading “Moco Limping” think about the title of the poem. What do you think the poem is going to be about? Record your answer under the first T on your TPCASTT handout.
Activity 1.4 • As we read “Moco Limping” highlight or circle the following words in the text: hobbles, savage grace, gait, leader, brutal hunter, rickety little canine, club foot, stumbler, abnormal, my vain heart weeps, feeble, imperfection is forgotten • Think about the connotations of these words. What ideas and feelings are associated with these words and phrases, and what attitude or tone do they create?
Activity 1.4 • Apply the TPCASTT strategy to “Moco Limping.” Fill in the TPCASTT handout.