Lesson Plans for By the Water of Babylon
Objectives: Students will be able to analyze the tone through diction and imagery in a speed-rotation activity.
CCS
R1 R4 R6 R10
L4 L5 L6
W3 W4 W5 W10
SL1
Differentiation: Extra support for vocabulary ( word bank) and syntax, co-teaching, various access points to the text, grouping by skills and learning styles , graphic organizer, template., scaffolded instructions.
Do Now: Describe one thing you know about the paragraph. Describe one thing you still don’t understand.
Mini Lesson
- Using semantic web to help generate and organize ideas (page 2)
- Teacher Model
| Imagery | Diction | Mood |
| ” It gripped my raft with it hands”
|
“afraid” | fear |
| ” I could feel their breath on my neck” | “evil” | the unknown |
Student Independent Work Activity
- Use speed-rotation activity to share your graphic organizer on page 3
- Writing Activity: Use the template on page 4 to complete two-sentence of analysis
- Analyze an imagery and how it contributes to the mood
- Analyze an example of connotative diction and how it contributes to the mood
- The speaker’s feeling of __________________ is illustrated through the use of the image__________________. The speaker________________( explain the mood and how it is created through the imagery)
Exist Slip: Copy one paragraph and hand it in.