LANGUAGE ARTS
General Notes
(Practice neat handwriting)
Vocabulary Important
2nd Language Development
Poetry
p. 21 outline
p.146 vocabulary
Concepts to Know
Concepts, conventions, and terminology of literature.
Children's literature.
Non - fiction
Autobiography - your life's story
Biography
Fiction
Fantasy
real world, porthole...fantasy world
things not worldly, not real.
Science Fiction
Space, future and technology
Mystery
problem, solution, foreshadowing
Know literature device
Historical Fiction
Real event, made up story line.
Adventure - action
Real Fiction - about people and events that could happen but didn't
Oral Tradition -
story passed on from generation to generation
a story or teach a lesson
explain cultures; explain nature
stories passed on from generation to generation to the next
Folktales
circulated orally among a people.
Fairytale
fantastic forces and beings
Myth
explains a practice, belief or natural phenomenon
Legend
historical, but not verifiable
Fable
short, lesson, personification
Tall-Tale
exaggeration - Paul Bunyon
CHANGES IN LITERATURE - HISTORICAL/SOCIAL
Technology - Printing Press, computers
Education - knowledge of and desire for ideas, ability to read.
Openness to thought
Various forms - drama, poetry and prose.
READING AND INTERPRETING LITERATURE
1) think of books you like to read
2) why do you like to read them.
3) what literacy device
try and make connections
STORY STRUCTURE
Setting - Descriptive Languages - Steinbeck
Characters
Problem - solution - ending
Rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
Figurative Language - simile, metaphor, anology
Characterization - dialogue, Protagonist, Antagonist, (creating conflict)
Use of time - Flashback (6th sense)
Foreshadowing
Irony - expect something, complete opposite happens
Point of View -
1st or 3rd person
Action, Humor
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PRIMARY STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT -
What will enhance, what will deter?
1st - Babble /Coo
2nd - Sounds that fit the language
3rd - words - no, mom, dad
4th - Phrases, sentences, etc.
Enhance
language rich environment
interaction, modeling
hearing, ok
Deter
basic needs not met
hearing problems
language processing problems
STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
common usage acceptance
what’s been accepted in dictionary
immigration has affected our language
technology; dramatically impacts language
Cultural Fads (the word hippy)
4) STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH - essay question
common usage and acceptance
it's a living language
1) technology
2) cultural
3) immigration
60% of our language comes other source
STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
phonetic generalizations
vowels a, e, i, o, u,
a - the long sound (say your name)
a - short sound
Prefix, root word, suffix, vowel/consonant
WRITING PROCESS
PRE-WRITE
clustering, outlining
ROUGH DRAFT
organize ideas into paragraphs
REVISIONS
improving the writing
revision group
(groups of 4)
EDITING
mechanics - spelling, punctuation, grammar
peer, parent, teacher
dependent upon audience
FINAL COPY
EVALUATION
teacher grade or self-reflection
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DOMAINS OF WRITING
NARRATION
telling a story
1st person
EXPOSITION
explaining an event
auto-biographical incident
requirement of author
(Find Support)
REFLECTIVE
personal
unstructured
not meant for outside audience
PERSUASIVE
5 paragraph style
state a position - pro-con
1st - THESIS STATEMENT
2nd - 1st REASON
3rd - 2nd REASON
4th - 3rd REASON
5th - RESTATEMENT OF THESIS
KNOW (my own notes)
ballad stanza
blank verse
couplet
triplet
antithesis
paradox
aphorism
POETRY
Tradition Verse - meter and rhyme
ex. Robert Frost
or
Traditional Poetry - has meter and rhyme
meter - pattern of syllable
meter - finding the beats
Blank Verse - has meter, but no rhyme
ex. Shakespere's plays
Free Verse - no meter, no rhyme
reaction of poetry to own verse
ex. Langston Hughes
Alliteration - some initial consonant, Big Bad Bruce
ex (Peter, piper picked a pickle)
Onomatopoeia - CRASH, BOOM, SIZZLE
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Personification - giving an inanimate object or an animal the qualities of a person.
Simile - directly compares dissimilar items using like or as (he's as stubborn as a mule)
Metaphor - equate dissimilar items (he's a mule)
TYPES OF POETRY
NARRATIVE - events
LYRICS - personal emotions
DRAMATIC - characters speaking
HAIKU - 5,7,5 syllables
BALLAD STANZA - abcb
look at and answer Emily Dickinson questions
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1) FREE VERSE /TRADITIONAL VERSE
2) SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Delivery of Instruction
In a SDAIE Classroom
1) change pace of instruction
2) provide comprehensible input
3) use realia - real affects
4) use manipulatives
5) use visuals
6) do peer work and cooperative work
7) prioritize major concepts
8) alternative forms of assessment
presentation w/other kids.
(Krashen and Cummings)
3) ORAL/WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS COMPREHENSION
ORAL
restatement
body language gives more meaning
how you speak and your tone
WRITTEN
comprehension comes from background and rereading
4) STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
common usage and acceptance
it's a living language
1) technology
2) cultural
3) immigration
60% of our language comes other sources
5) FORMAL/INFORMAL LANGUAGE
Business is more formal
Friend informal language
6) PROSE VS. POETRY
prose is highly structural (sticks to rules)
poetry can be structured or unstructured
poetry uses other things to create meaning
poetry uses sound, rhythm and rhyme
poetry much more meaning per word
7) QUOTE - “HOUSE AND CURTAINS”
explain quotes
8) QUOTE - “SHE PUTS ALL HER CARDS ON THE TABLE”
9) QUOTE - “HOT AND COLD”
10) SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - ADULT AND CHILD
child is in environment; is motivated and not a greater risk learner
the older the child; they are afraid
make sure language is risk free
SPECIAL NOTES
work on vocabulary knowing what vocab. in poetry to study.