Total Duration: |
31 to 60 Minutes |
Materials and Resources: |
Copy of Margaret Atwood's "Bread" Pronoun Grammar Warm-up (focusing on understood you and pronoun shifts) yellow highlighter Notebook paper Pencil Pen
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Technology Resources Needed: |
Interactive Whiteboard
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Background/Preparation: |
Student should review common errors in pronoun usage. Students should also review narrative techniques in writing.
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1. Students should read "Bread" by Margaret Atwood. 2. As the students read “Bread,” they should highlight each “you” they see in the selection. 3. Review the concepts of understood you and imperative statements. 4. Students will “turn and talk” discussing the rhetorical impact of addressing the reader and interacting with the reader. 5. Students should share their thoughts/evaluation of Margaret Atwood’s use of you throughout her passage. 6. Using Atwood’s “Bread” as a model, students should select an object and compose an essay exploring the significance of the object. The student essay must adhere to the following guidelines:
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Assessment Strategies |
Students will complete grammar warm-up. Students will compose their own narrative essay using "you and understood you" as the narrative techique. Students will revise and edit their own narrative essays elminating all pronoun shifts.
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Acceleration: |
As an extension of this activity, students can create and publish an online creative writing journal featuring their "Understood You" essays. |
Intervention: |
Students in need of extra support while completing this lesson can be paired up with stronger students. Students can work in groups to create/compose group essays. The teacher may spend additional time reviewing pronoun agreement (person) and unnecessary pronoun shifts in writing.
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View the Special Education resources for
instructional guidance in providing modifications and adaptations
for students with significant cognitive disabilities who qualify for the Alabama Alternate Assessment.
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