TODAY'S LESSON AND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
MAKE ENGLISH CLASS COZY AND WARM. BRING A MUG AND HOT CHOCOLATE!
NEW SLIDE SHOW!
Homework assignment:
NONE. Enjoy the night.
Today's Lesson Topic and Objectives:
Topics:
MARCCRT ... and Antithesis.
Lesson Objectives:
Students will gain a greater understanding of how to make significant and enhancing changes in their drafts. Students will also learn how to use antithesis to enhance their writing.
Steps to reaching the objective(s):
Period 1
- Connection to prior learning: How did you do revisions in earlier grades?
- Review MARCCRT
- Go over definition of Antithesis
- Look at some students' essays and make significant changes, including antithesis.
- Introduction to A Tale of Two Cities.
- Background information on Dickens and the setting of the story
- Give out book and take a good look
- Discuss how to cover a book
Exit ticket: Write out the definition of antithesis. Also, write the approximate dates of the setting of Dickens' novel.
