Here is the ninth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences Unit. This one, as heralded above, aims to assist students in writing a sentence with a single modifier out of place for emphasis.
I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the oxymoron as a rhetorical device as the opener for this lesson; this is half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence that is two clauses separated by a colon. On one side of the colon is the explanation of oxymorons, on the other an example of an oxymoron in quotes. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that is the work of this lesson. This is largely unsupported instruction: the worksheet presents only mentor texts, after which students will model their own sentences in this form. I’ve developed no sentence stems or cloze exercises for this material. If you do, could you let me know?
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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