---
title: "10.09.06"
date: 2006-10-09
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/10/09/100906/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 10.09.06

Cores 1-4:

- Talk about [the Authenticity Awards](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/The+Authenticity+Awards) for last week.
- Look at [Authentic Assessment](http://www.writely.com/View?docid=dcxbprxw_746p4xx) for blogs tomorrow.

Core 1:

- Write a paragraph review of [this music video](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1681289200968277337&q=the+format&hl=en).
- Discuss reviews and sports writing:

- Does looking at reviews and sports writing as a genre change the way that you think about both?

- Come back to vocabulary for Vocab Basketball. Core 2:

- Discuss-On: How did you tackle the sesquipedalian paragraph? What is your thought process when you encounter a seemingly impenetrable paragraph?
- Take a second look at the paragraph.
- Practice and act out a few sesquipedalian theater pieces.
- Talk about being [too tired to think](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/2006/10/08/too-tired-to-think/).

Core 3:

- Write-On: Looking at your characterization sheet and your “video memory,” How many of your ways of characterization are present in your memory? Can you identify the ones that you used?
- Why is it important to characterize using all of the ways rather than just a few?
- Share video memories and characterizations.

- What can we generalize about a character once we get to know him/her?
- What can we generalize about Christopher (from the The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime)?

- Talk about being [too tired to think](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/2006/10/08/too-tired-to-think/). Core 4:

- How did you attack reading [The Declaration](http://www.duke.edu/eng169s2/group1/lex3/hyprdecl.htm)? What is your thought process when you encounter a seemingly impenetrable paragraph?
- Discuss the reasons for changes in the draft.
- Why was this document so successful? What in the language makes it so persuasive? (Word Choice, Figurative Language, Allusion, Sentence Structure, Concrete and abstract images.
- Talk about being [too tired to think](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/2006/10/08/too-tired-to-think/).