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MODULE 1
LESSON 25
Brainstorm: Facts vs. Story
WELCOME
What is the difference between telling someone a list of facts about an event and telling him or her a story about those events?
LET'S SHARE!
How does your response to the Welcome prompt connect to the Content Framing Question for this lesson?
LAUNCH
Discern the Imaginative Power of Storytelling
LEARN
After reviewing your annotations of “The Man Made of Words”,jot do...
After reviewing your annotations of “The Man Made of Words”,jot down responses to the following questions about the power of language and the imagination.
1) According to Momaday, why do we have language and stories? What function does language serve in relation to the ideas we have of ourselves? [paragraphs 1 and 3]
2) What happens when Momaday speaks the name “Ko-sahn”? How is this an example of the “magic of words”? [paragraphs 13, 14, and 15]
3) How does Momaday react to Ko-sahn’s appearance? How does she respond? Why is existing in someone else’s imagination the “best of all kinds” of being? [paragraphs 16 and 17]
4) After Ko-sahn leaves, Momaday writes that he “imagined” he was “alone in the room.” What do you think he means by this? [paragraph 21]
Use your TDQ responses and your reflective paragra...
Use your TDQ responses and your reflective paragraph responses to write a summary of the central idea of the essay.
Analyze the Impact of Word Choice and Meaning
Analyze the Impact of Word Choice and Meaning
In keeping with Momaday’s emphasis on the power of language and stories, decide on five words from the essay that are most essential to understanding the central idea.
Example
Incorporate Evidence in Writing
Now return to the reflective paragraphs you completed in the previous lesson and identify where and how to incorporate textual evidence into your writing.
What do you already know about using textual evidence in writing?
Incorporate Evidence in Writing
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How did your work with specific words buildyour understanding of Momaday’s ideas about the power of stories to help us make sense of ourselves and the world?
LAND
WRAP
Identify three places in your reflective paragraphs from the previous lesson where you could incorporate evidence.Revise these reflective paragraphs in the following lesson and complete your second New-Read Assessment.
DEEP DIVE
Using the refresher boxes, work in pairs to label the sentence structures as being either “complex” or “compound-complex.”
“The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”
“When I was born she was already old; she was a grown woman when my grandparents came into the world.”
DEEP DIVE
How does the meaning differ depending on the sentence structures?
How does the meaning differ depending on the senten...
“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves” (Momaday).
We are what we imagine, and our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves.
Since we are what we imagine, our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves.
Annotate the excerpt from Momaday’s “The Man Made of Words” to show a few examples of each type of sentence:
Annotate the excerpt from Momaday’s “The Man Made ...
simple (S)
compound (C)
complex (CX)
compound-complex (CC)