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title: "09.29.06"
date: 2006-09-29
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/09/29/092906/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 09.29.06

Core 1:

- Share-On: Share your Satires with at least 2-3 other people and ask them what they believe is being criticized. If they give you a different answer than what you had planned, discuss why your reader’s impression was different than your writing intention.
- Share and critique satires as a whole class:

- Is this satire affective at drawing attention to a problem?
- Is this satire affective at persuading you to change (or someone else)?

- Dive back into Vocab books for a fresh look. Core 2:

- Discuss-On:

- How many words do you think you know?
- What percentage of those words do you think your really understand (can use, know inside and out)?
- What accounts for your number not being 100%
- What should we call our Sesquipedalian activities? Why?

- Show off [FlashCard Exchange](http://www.flashcardexchange.com/) (and the [Word Within The Word Flashcards](http://www.flashcardexchange.com/search?t=2&q=word+within+word&search=Search)).
- Discuss the notes in terms of their importance to fully understanding a word.
- Explore the ideas page looking for the most authentic idea. Core 3:

- Take Quiz over Vocabulary Unit 1 and collect Vocab books.
- Discuss-On: What doesn’t belong in an introduction to an essay?
- Let’s  [Pack our Bags.](http://www.thinkfree.com/filelink.tfo?filemasterno=328938&filekey=3ellllmm4q)
- How would you pack your bags for one of the Start-Me-Up Sentences that you wrote yesterday?

Core 4:

- Write-On: What is the difference between persuasion and manipulation with words?
- With a partner: Analyze  [Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech](http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm)  using [this handout.](http://www.thinkfree.com/filelink.tfo?filemasterno=445240&filekey=tcxkhtqlmp)
- Discuss the analysis as a class.
- Come up with your final answer to the final question:

- From your reading/listening/watching and our discussion, what do you believe that speech can do better than the written word and what does the written word do better than speech?