Goals: You will be able to...
- Define objects, concepts, and ideas using description, examples, and comparison
- Recognize definition strategies
- Organize a definition paragraph
Warm-up: "Taboo" game (practice defining objects and concepts without using "taboo" words)
Task 1: Writing Definitions Handout
Task 2: Definition strategies
Example: Mention specific person or thing that represents the term.
Task 1: Writing Definitions Handout
Task 2: Definition strategies
Example: Mention specific person or thing that represents the term.
- Description: Describe different characteristics that make up the concept. These can be physical, historical, or conceptual.
- Comparison: Show how it is like (similar to) or unlike (different from) something else.
- Classification: Describe what the term includes (different parts, types, and components)
- Examples
Task 3: Read three sample paragraphs defining "Friendship" and complete the outline.
Task 4: You'll be assigned a second group, where you have to explain the organization of the sample paragraph you just outlined.
Homework: Read Only Connect...The Goals of a Liberal Education from The American Scholar. 1998. 67(4). and write/bring a summary of 10 definitions(qualities) of a well-educated person for class discussion. If you are pressured for time, read p.3~5 for main ideas.