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Use of adjectives to depict setting and reveal character
Incorporation of adjectives into dialogue appropriate for setting
Teacher: Nancy Umsted
School: Freshman Center, Blue Springs R-IV
Grade Focus: 9th Grade
Time Frame: (2-3 sessions for task; 1 session for presentation)
Show Me Standards:
Content Standards
CA 1 speaking and writing standard English (including grammar, usage,punctuation, spelling, capitalization)
Performance Standards
1.8 organize data, information and ideas into useful forms (including charts, graphs, outlines) for analysis or presentation
2.1 plan and make written, oral and visual presentations for a variety of purposes andaudiences
Introduction: Adjectives can describe a-place (setting). Dialogue, using descriptive words,can reveal character depth and personality. Descriptive words can make a picture comealive. Using descriptive words in dialogue makes the whole scene real.
Objective:
To make a photo come alive through descriptive words and dialogue.
To present a large-screen picture, accompanied by spoken dialogue.
To present (on tag board) photo (down-loaded from internet), accompanied by chart of descriptive words and written copy of dialogue.
Procedure:
a) After listening to a dialogue read by teacher (attached) and using Inspirations* to "map" the adjectives for the setting and the characters,
b) Students view 5 photos from Truman's early life on large screen,
Student Guide
c)After arbitrarily being placed in groups of 4, the teacher reviews Scoring Guide on large screen. Students select desired photo (selection returned to screen) and fill in chart on large sheet of paper with descriptive words for Setting, Character I, Character II, Character III.
d) Students put information from large sheet onto Excel spreadsheet or graph from Word
e) Next session - Students write dialogue appropriate for photo, using descriptive words.
Assessment:
1) Presentation:
Technology for Lesson:
1) one classroom computer with large-screen display
2) Inspirationsby Tom Snyder Productions
3) Excel spreadsheet or Word graph
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