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Lesson Plan
She Did What? Revising for Connotation
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| Grades | 6 – 8 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Minilesson |
| Estimated Time | 50 minutes |
| Lesson Author |
Blacksburg, Virginia |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Overheads, handouts, or a white board.
- Students will need a piece of writing that they have been working on—either in writer's journals or a paper.
PRINTOUTS
Connotation Revision Passage handout
WEBSITES
PREPARATION
- To introduce the idea of connotation, you might complete Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Minilesson before having students revise their own texts in this lesson.
- Prepare overheads or handouts; or arrange to present materials on the board.
- Explore the background exercises on connotation found at Websites listed in the Resources section.
- During this lesson three students demonstrate the sentence "She walked into the room." Before you begin the lesson, prepare these students by asking them to walk into the room in a particular manner:
- Ask one student to walk in quickly, as if she is late. She's not to run, but she should seem rushed and hurried.
- Ask another student to walk in at a fairly normal speed, but as if she is very happy and pleased. She might bounce in or float in dreamily.
- Ask the last student to walk in very slowly, as if she really isn't interested in the class and has plenty of time to get into her seat.
- Ask one student to walk in quickly, as if she is late. She's not to run, but she should seem rushed and hurried.