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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Story Analyses / "Danny Deever" - Critical Analysis Model II

College Prep 12
  • Reminder about mindful sentence construction. Reading work out loud will make mistakes stand out and show where your writing weaknesses are.
  • Continued working in groups listing main events, symbols and their meanings.
  • Group rep reports to class. Question and comment.
  • Reminder #2: Eden essays dus on Friday.
  • Reflection journals will be checked tomorrow.
Grade 10
  • Check homework. Students to annotate poem by quatrain. Annotations should answer two questions: What is going on? What is the author doing?
  • Share homework.
  • Write second paragraph, add to model:
   The first stanza introduces foreshadowing and suspense (lines 3,4) through the conversation between CS and FP. CS is “white” with “dread” about “what (he’s) got to watch.” The cause of the dread is introduced: Danny Deever is getting hanged. Kipling emphasizes the tone by repeating “hangin’” three times (lines 5-8).
  • HW: write the next two paragraphs on seperate paper to hand in. Students were told to vary how they start the succeeding paragraphs. The following example was given for them to use: "The reaction of the regiment is illustrated in the second stanza."

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