LIFE IS FULL OF BEAUTY. NOTICE IT. NOTICE THE BUMBLE BEE, THE SMALL CHILD, AND THE SMILING FACES. SMELL THE RAIN, AND FEEL THE WIND. LIVE YOUR LIFE TO.

“LIFE IS FULL OF BEAUTY. NOTICE IT. NOTICE THE BUMBLE BEE, THE SMALL CHILD, AND THE SMILING FACES. SMELL THE RAIN, AND FEEL THE WIND. LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST POTENTIAL, AND FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS.”

Ashlee Smtih

Warm Up – Write about what you see

Dillard had a moment with a weasel

SO what?

Strategies used by Dillard

The staccato sentence

The short, choppy sentence Usually used for emphasis

A weasel is wild. We could, you know.

Simile

Living LIKE Weasels

Allusion

A direct or indirect reference to a famous person, place, thing, event or work of literature/music/art

Allusion?

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Weasel Modeling Paper

Due next Tuesday Living Like…. You are to write a 2 page paper modeling

Dillard’s style on an animal you think we should learn to live like.

You must:Be overly descriptiveGet philosophicalInclude a staccato sentenceInclude juxtaposition

Groups of 4

Post-ItDefine beauty

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