First lesson plan of the year

It's just a draft at this time, and I don't really have much time right now to wax philosophical about it, but here is a draft of a teaching demonstration lesson for my English 297 class, Teaching of Writing.  The lesson is about capitalization.  The basic plan is to start class working in pairs correcting the capitalization of an ee cummings poem.  From there, we will come back as a whole class to go through the various rules of capitalization with the use of skeletal notes to be filled in with examples offered up by the class as a whole.  To finish up, the class will form 5 groups of 4 and correct the capitalization in a Don Marquis poem, "The Coming of Archy".  As a sponge, there will also be a short passage of my own creation with as many capitalization errors as I can fit!

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