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English · Grade 12

Language, Style and Deliberate Revision

Learners study style as a set of deliberate choices. They analyze cumulative, periodic and balanced sentences and the rhythm they create; examine modernist techniques such as free indirect discourse and stream of consciousness in short excerpts from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) and James Joyce's “Araby” (1914); revise for emphasis, concision and cohesion using known-new order and verbs in place of nominalizations; and imitate a style while explaining their choices.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 145 minutes
  • Style and revision check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Analyze how cumulative, periodic and balanced sentences and varied sentence length create rhythm, emphasis and meaning.
  • Analyze modernist techniques, including free indirect discourse, stream of consciousness and a retrospective narrator's double perspective.
  • Revise deliberately for emphasis, concision and cohesion using known-new order, end focus and active verbs in place of nominalizations.
  • Imitate a writer's style in new content and explain the choices that create its effects.

Lessons

  1. Sentence shapes and rhythm 6 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  2. Modernist style 6 steps3 practiceabout 37 min
  3. Revise for emphasis, concision and cohesion 6 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  4. Imitate and explain 5 steps3 practiceabout 38 min
  5. Style and revision check 10 questions at the end

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