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.