Chapter+5

Prose has style and emphasizes pitch, vocal quality, and the balancing of sentences during performance. Descriptions and dialogue are also important, as they can add tonal color and rhythm to the piece. Factual prose is used most often in non-fiction books and text books. This is what is seen in schools most often in the form of science books, history books, and other text books. Prose is all around us. This is prose, if I were to write a letter or a journal, it would also be prose. Prose has been performed throughout history if we think back to how stories were told before they were ever written down. Traveling bards would orally tell histories, the news, and stories in taverns. Even novels are prose. This is the form of literature which students will come into the most contact with. Students may not realise what they are reading or writing, but prose is the most influential form of literature in our current society. Activities: Students keep a journal reflecting on what was learned in the class, what they want to learn, and what they already know about the subject. At the end they relate how their journal is prose and what the definition of prose is. Students learn the definition of prose, then compile a list of prose pieces they have read or wrote in the last 24 hours. Then discuss this list with a group, then as a class. media type="custom" key="11600858" [] I would use this to inspire students to write prose and how one man has written prose. media type="youtube" key="3J03hJqjQoc" height="315" width="420" [] I would use this as a student example of how to perform prose. Students would listen to this video and identify it as what is commonly thought of as a "story".