Sense, Sensibility and Sentences: Examining and Writing Memorable Lines
By SHANNON DOYNE and HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO
Language Arts
Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
Materials | Student journals, computer with Internet access (optional), index cards.
Warm-Up | Several days before teaching this lesson, ask students to spend the next few days on a hunt for excellent sentences, according to their own standards, which they will explain when they share. They should jot down these sentences in their journals or in a commonplace book.
Tell them anything is fair game, including literature and one-liners from movies. They might even want to copy down something they overheard, saw in an advertisement, heard in a song or even spray-painted on a building. Their choices can be sentences they read or heard long ago or ones they encounter this week.
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