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What We Don't Say: The Messages Between, Underneath, and Within the Words
Kind of Activity:
Group Discussion
Objective:
Students will explore the nonverbal elements of communication present in both the content and structure of Glück’s poems.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3
Structure:
Begin by taking a student volunteer to read the following passage from “A Sharply Worded Silence”: “I concluded finally that whatever message there might have been/ was not contained in speech—so, I realized, my mother...
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