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SMT_style as bearer of meaning
Storyboard Description
For exploring literature beyond basic vocabulary and grammar comprehension, for exploring how style bears and conveys meaning and atmosphere, have students read, analyze and discuss texts of your choice, then practice creating their own examples with this task.
Storyboard Text
- Read these two sentences, aloud. Look at the choices of vocabulary/sound, grammar, font and punctuation. Tell me how the author's choices create meaning and atmosphere.
- Now look at the pictures, and write your own very short stories; choose aspects that help you tell the story
- The train shrieked past the rickety fence.... ... ..."Ah reckon ah'm a-gonna git there a-fore y'all," he said, while thinking, Perhaps this time it would be quite different.
- -- shaky ---- upset ---- floral ---- shimmering ---- dinky ---- lethargic ---- tentative ---- blank ---- slink ---- monumental ---- hyperactive ---- puppy ---- snickering ---- uppity ---- curmudgeon ---- mirror ---- lean (adj.) --
- Which of these words don't you know? Look them up online, read their meanings and listen to their sounds. Pick 5 favorites, and prepare to tell us how the word itself (sounds, spelling, form) helps to convey its meaning.
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