This week in English 009 we are creating a website I call “Jay’s Movie Definition Dictionary.” We’re learning to define complex in our own words, using new strategies of negation, enumeration, analogy. What’s this have to do with movies? As a special twist, were developing illustrative examples drawn from our favorite films. On the website, students arrange and format their extended definitions and then embed their video clips. You can look forward to reading about “True Love” in 50 First Dates and “Sacrifice” in The Hunger Games among many others. Later, I hope to see my students use the same skills they use here in their research papers. Below, I’m posting excerpts of models I use in class.
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