Lesson Title: Sentence Structure and Hemmingway
Objectives: Students will identify sentence structure and how it changes emotional and rhetorical effect. Students will practice writing for desired effect focusing on sentence structure.
Anticipatory Set:
· Each student will think of and write twenty ways to say, ‘How are you?’ in English
· Have people share different ways they came up and discuss as a class how each makes us feel and/or associations we make (context, age group, etc.).
Objective/Purpose: By the end of the lesson, you will be able to recognize sentence structure as a stylistic choice with great effect. You will be able to pick out what it is about a sentence that gives it its effect. With an understanding of sentence structure, you will be able to control sentence structure in your own writing that helps you create a desired effect.
Input:
· Have read the first ten pages of The Old Man and The Sea the night before
· Students must know the different parts of speech in a sentence, which we will review in a slideshow as a class.
Model: We will analyze a simple sentence to pick out the parts of speech. This will be a sentence from The Old Man and The Sea projected on a slide.
Check for understanding: I will write a sentence out that has the capacity to be reformed, and I will have student volunteer different ways the sentence could be formed.
Guided Practice:
· Popcorn read sentence by sentence the first two pages of The Old Man and The Sea.
· Talk as class about patterns we sense.
· Have everyone pick a sentence that stuck out to them, have people share which sentence they chose and why.
Closure:
· Come back as group and discuss what the sentences have in common. Talk about sentence structure and its effect (using Hemmingway examples on slides).
Independent Practice:
· Write a paragraph about your morning imitating what you heard in the popcorn read.
· Share your paragraphs with a group of three, explain what you did to try to imitate Hemmingway.
Assessment: Have students turn in their paragraphs and see if they have an idea of what Hemmingway’s sentence structure involves, and what it tells them about the characterization of the narrator.