Learning Goal: Focus on sensory language to appreciate setting.
Students turned in homework, and then we reviewed due dates for the interview narrative assignment (see yesterday's post). Next, I moved students through a visualization activity to help understand sensory language and how it can be used to establish mood and characterization. In addition, we examined the importance of setting to establish theme...
This activity was designed to prepare for our first novel student--Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Each student received a book today and we read pages 1-5.
Interviews must be completed by 10/6.
Students turned in homework, and then we reviewed due dates for the interview narrative assignment (see yesterday's post). Next, I moved students through a visualization activity to help understand sensory language and how it can be used to establish mood and characterization. In addition, we examined the importance of setting to establish theme...
This activity was designed to prepare for our first novel student--Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Each student received a book today and we read pages 1-5.
Interviews must be completed by 10/6.