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Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School January 28, 2015. Everyday use. Preliminaries.
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Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School January 28, 2015 Everyday use
Preliminaries • Respond to the following prompt: “Sometimes we give objects great value because they have special meaning for us; perhaps something was a gift or made just for you. Think of something you own that you consider valuable in this way and explain why it is important to you.”
Objectives: • The students will be able to identify character traits in literature. • The students will be able to draw inferences from the action and dialogue in the short story “Everyday Use”. • The students will be able to identify physical symbols in the story.
Focus Lesson: Drawing… • Background: “Everyday Use…” • Literary Terms: • Dialogue • Narrator • Inference • “Everyday Use” (Elements… pp. 77-83) • Audio and Class Reading • Inferences about characters • Dee • Maggie • Small Groups (exit ticket): symbol analysis
Focus Lesson: Homework • Read “The Man in the Water” (Elements… pp. 272-7) • Take at least 5 QNTs (due next class for 20 homework points).