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Lesson Goal(s):
Day 3: Students can determine the author’s purpose and point of view based off of the text.
• Teacher will provide anticipation guide, link to biography, copies of the excerpt, link to the audio.
Bell ringer:
Description of activity:
Students will use an anticipation guide to review what they have learned over the past two lessons, referring to rhetoric.
Students will answer questions that apply to the importance, purpose, and meaning of rhetoric.
Original Anticipation Guide Link:
http://www.rowan.k12.ky.us/userfiles/960/Classes/17957/Rhetoric%20Anticipation%20
Guide.docx
I edited the original to fit my lesson. A copy of this anticipation guide is included at the
bottom of this lesson.
Approx. time required:
5-10 minutes, including time to review answers.
Accommodation or modification if included in this activity
Teacher will read aloud questions on the anticipation guide as students are working.
EXCERPT: The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no
longer served to dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had
slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet,
into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her
eyes, her arms. She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were
not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against the
abundance of her husband’s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit6 and self-
understood.
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness,
filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s
summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly
upbraiding7 her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which
they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. The mosquitoes made merry over her,
biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.
The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in
the darkness half a night longer.
Background: At Grand Isle, though Edna is married, she eventually forms a connection with Robert
Lebrun, a charming, earnest young man who actively seeks Edna’s attention and affections
-Students will then listen to the audio while reading along with their handouts, while following along reading.
-Students will then have the opportunity to access the excerpt of the novel by using the school’s course system (ie., Edmodo, Moodle,
Blackboard, etc.) if they wish.
- After the reading, students will underline anything that indicates author purpose or point of view and they will write what they believe the
purpose/point of view is using their underlined sections as evidence.
Approx. time required:
20-25 minutes.
Accommodation or modification if included in this activity
-Students will listen to the audio while reading along with their handouts.
-Students will have the opportunity to access the audio of the novel and timestamp for our excerpt via blackboard. This helps
students who struggle with reading comprehension and gives them another way to understand the material.
Name Date
Show that you agree or disagree with each statement by marking an X in the correct column.
AGREE DISAGREE
conveyed.
_____ _____ 5. Rhetoric is traditionally associated with politics, law, public relations,
_____ _____ 6. How one says something conveys as much meaning as what one
says.