To Help the Handicapped, Talk to Them

1

connotation-denotation

• if connotation - denotation has not been studied yet, click here and do the following:

  • • • in spring of 2025: do BIG 4

      • previous years

        • • Big 1

          • Big 2: Little 1: view video or slideshow only

2

pre-reading

• 13-year-old year Itzhak Perlman performs: click here for the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

• Itzhak Perlman performs  I. Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - to  see him play click here

• I Know I Played Every Note: click here for documentary of 1978 Itzhak Perlman, Virtuoso Violinist

• Itzhak Perlman's webpage: click here

3

read the text

• text: click here  (only available to USD 268)

listen to the read-aloud

• click here for oral reading of "To Help the Handicapped" with approximate reading time: 2:00

4

post-reading exercise

• if you have a paper/pencil use highlighters or color-pencils to annotate the items on the list below

• if no paper copy, then find & discuss these thoroughly with your team/partner

  1. • 1. 1. writer's stance - their opinion & main points

          2. facts that back-up their position

          3. personal experiences he used as support

          4. writer's solution to the problem - or their call to action

          5. persuasive technique(s) used

5

• QUIA review: click here

• review questions: click here