English 70 Lesson Plan 15
1. Essays back in about a week.
2. Capital letters: Hand in homework.
3. Bonus points this week:
a. Library
b. Poetry Reading: Allied Arts Thursday 7pm
c. Oak Hollow Gallery, Friday, 7 pm.
4. Homework: Word Choice, practice 1.
5. Quiz Families and Strangers
6. Voice and Word Choice rubrics
7. Review types of prewriting
a. Freewrite
b. List
c. Research/read
d. Discussion
e. Cluster/map
f. Questions
8. Strangers list
a. Doctors/Nurses
b. customers
c. co-workers
d. camps
e. teams
f. on the street
g. hikes
h. trips
i. vacations
j. stores
k. bus/plane/train
l. coaches
m. church leaders
n. teachers
9. Strangers in ITMFWG
• Look for word choice—lively verbs, specific modifiers/adverbs/adjectives
• Which writer would you like to meet?
• Which writer takes the biggest risk?
• Which writer has the most style?
10. If there’s time: Word choice: Four common word-choice problems, Vague Words (423)
