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Undergraduate 3
04/19/2011

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Alliteration
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Allusion
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Analogy
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Characterization
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Cliche
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Dialect/ slang
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Diction
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Metaphor
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Simile
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Hyperbole
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Personification
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Foreshadowing
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Imagery
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Irony
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Mood
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Point of View
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Setting
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Style
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Symbolism
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Tone
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Voice
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Sonnet
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Haiku
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Epic
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Free Verse
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Couplet
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Elegy
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Limerick
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Novel
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Short Story
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Science Fiction
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Fable
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Myth
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Legend
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Folk Tale
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Fairy Tale
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Mystery
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Historical Fiction
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Harlem Renaissance
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Arna Bontemps
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God Sends Sunday (1931)

 

Black Thunder (1936)

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Countee Cullen
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One Way to Heaven (1932)
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
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There is Confusion (1924)

Plum Bun (1928)

The Chinaberry Tree (1931)

Comedy, American Style (1933)

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Rudolph Fisher
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The Walls of Jericho (1928)

The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)

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Langston Hughes
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Not Without Laughter (1930)

Mulatto

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Zora Neale Hurston
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Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

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Nella Larson
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Quicksand (1928)

Passing (1929)

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Claude McKay
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Home to Harlem (1927)

Banjo (1929)

Gingertown (1931)

Banana Bottom (1933)

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George Schuyler
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Black No More (1931)

Slaves Today (1931)

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Wallace Thurman
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The Blacker the Berry (1929)

Infants of the Spring (1932)

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Jean Toomer
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Cane (1923)
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Romanticism
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Metaphysical poets
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John Keats
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lord Byron
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John Donne
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Andrew Marvell
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George Herbert
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Transcendentalism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry David Thoreau
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Maya Angelou
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Jane Austen
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Ray Bradbury
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Willa Cather
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Stephen Crane
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Emily Dickinson
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Anne Frank
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Robert Frost
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Harper Lee
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C.S. Lewis
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Herman Melville
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George Orwell
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Edgar Allan Poe
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J.D. Salinger
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William Shakespeare
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Mary Shelley
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Amy Tan
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J.R.R. Tolkein
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Mark Twain
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Alice Walker
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Walt Whitman
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How does one foster reading appreciation within the secondary classroom?
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Use nonprint materials in addition to the assigned text

 

Use a variety of print materials, including trade books, electronic books, and Internet resources

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How can a teacher strengthen students' vocabulary?
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Encourage use of structural cues: prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

 

Context cues: words and phrases around the unknown word.

 

Build relationships between words and the concepts they represent.

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What are some instructional strategies for increasing students' knowledge of prefixes, roots and suffixes?
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What are some instructional strategies for increasing students' ability to use context cues?
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What are some instructional strategies for increasing students' command of the relationships between the concepts and the vocabulary in their courses?
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What are some components of good comprehension?
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-Identifying key concepts

-Paraphrase key ideas

-Make predictions

-Use recognition of text structure or patterns to aid comprehension

-Choose correct reading strategies.

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What is the purpose of skimming?
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What is the purpose of scanning?
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What is the purpose of note-taking?
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What is the purpose of note-taking?
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What is the concept mapping and other graphic organizers?
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What is the purpose of semantic feature analysis?
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What is the purpose of anticipation guides?
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Modeling
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Includes the teacher reading aloud, the teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of challenging questions, and reciprocal teaching
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Questioning
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to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis, synthesis, or evaluation
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Scaffolding
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helping students achieve independence in reading by first giving support and then gradually taking it away as students are ready to do the tasks on their own
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Activating prior knowledge
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the use of anticipation guides, semantic feature analysis, pretests, and discussions
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Building metacognition
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Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self-knowledge and self-monitoring.
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oxymoron
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Ted Hughes
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The Badlands
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William Carlos Williams
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The Dance
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Onomatopoeia
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Dialects
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Homophones
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What are the phases of language development for secondary students learning English?
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What are some strategies for building English proficiency for students with limited English proficiency?
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What are the characteristics of a secondary student new to the US who is learning English and is said to have "beginning proficiency"? "Intermediate proficiency"? "Advanced proficiency"?
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How might new English language learners use syntax and other elements of their first language when they speak/write in English? (e.g. differences in vowel sounds, consonant patterns, or syntax)
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What languages are English derived from?
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What/how is English related to other modern languages?
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What is the general chronology of the English language?
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Morphological, phonological, semantic
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Etymologies
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Cognates, prefixes, suffixes, roots
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Noun (proper, common, collective)
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Pronoun
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Verb
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Adjective
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Adverb
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Preposition
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Conjunction
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Phrase (Participal, Prepositional, Appositive)
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Clause (Independent/coordinate; dependent/ subordinate)
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Subject-verb agreement
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Verb Tenses
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Active/ Passive Voice
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Pronoun/antecedent/ weak reference
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Infinitive/ Participle
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Declarative Sentence
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Interrogative Sentence
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Exclamatory Sentence
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Imperative
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Sentence Structure:

 

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Compound-Complex/

Sentence Fragment

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How is meaning affected by punctuation or word order?
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How are euphemism and other semantic strategies used to obscure/ alter meaning?
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What are some prewriting strategies?
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What are some drafting strategies?
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What are some revising strategies?
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What are some editing strategies?
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What are some publishing strategies?
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Holistic scoring
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Self-assessment
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Conferencing
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What are some criteria for evaluating source information?
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-Motives, credibility, and perspectives of the author

-Date

- Rigor of the logic

-Freedom from strong bias, prejudice, and stereotypes

-Comprehensiveness of the evidence

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MLA Citations
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APA Citations
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Compare and contrast
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Chronological sequence
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Spatial Sequence
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Cause and Effect
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Problem and solution
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Bar Graph
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Line Graph
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Pie chart
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Textbooks
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Journal articles
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Newspaper articles
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Television news programs
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Creative discourse
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Expository discourse
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persuasive discourse
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Analogies and extended metaphors
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appeal to authority
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appeal to emotion
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