1. What’s your style? You will identify the writer’s style using subtext.
Follow the directions below to complete the activity.
You will read two poems: one by Dr. Seuss and the other by E. E. Cummings.
2. After reading, you will identify the author/writer of each poem.
You will be asked how did you identify the author/writer?
Then you are asked what Literary focus have we described?
Click on the app , subtext.
Click on book.
Identify the writer’s style identifying the figures of speech.
Click on blog in blackboard and go to Writer’s style box.
Type your response in the block
Click submit
This task uses:
Subtext and blackboard
Common Core/NG Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts
TEACHER NOTES:
Teacher’s name/ Audrette
School: Oak Park Middle School
Grade Level/Subject: 8th/ ELA
Task Card Level: Level 1
Special Directions/Considerations:
Activity Evaluation: Completion of blog submission.
Prerequisites for students: Text being used (from the Holt Elements of Literature ):