Learning outcomes
Students will:
- analyze an author’s style.
- practice sentence combining.
- verbalize at least one strategy to combine sentences.
- make observations about how the author structured the sentences in her opening paragraph.
Teacher planning
Time required for lesson
1 hour
Materials/resources
- A copy of “Beach People, Mountain People” by Suzanne Britt. This essay was original published during the 1970’s in the Raleigh News & Observer and can be found in her collection of essays entitled Show and Tell.
- Overhead transparency of model sentences for each sentence-combining strategy.
- Overhead transparency of Model Sentences
- Overhead transparency of Sentence Combining
- Overhead transparency of the first paragraph of “Beach People, Mountain People.”
- Blank overhead transparencies and markers
- Paper and pencil
Technology resources
Overhead Projector.
