Abstract Concrete Lesson
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The document discusses abstract and concrete terms and how they relate in a ladder of abstraction. It provides examples of terms like sustenance, food, junk food, ice cream moving from abstract to more specific concrete examples. It then discusses a poem called "Patience" and asks the reader to identify abstract and concrete words or phrases in the poem and how they add to the overall meaning.
Abstract Concrete Lesson
- 1. Journal #15
- 4. Ladder of Abstraction (moves from abstract to very concrete) Sustenance Food Junk Food Ice cream Premium Ice cream Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey Ice Cream A double scoop waffle cone of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey Ice Cream
- 24. Exit Slip Write this at the bottom of your journal entry from today. Read the following poem, Patience by Kay Ryan, and Identify two abstract and two concrete words or phrases. How do the abstract and concrete terms add to the overall meaning of the poem? Patience is Wider than one Once envisioned, With ribbons Of rivers And distant Ranges and Tasks undertaken And finished With modest Relish by Natives in their Native dress. Who would Have guessed It possible That waiting Is sustainable— A place with Its own harvests. Or that in Time’s fullness The diamonds Of patience Couldn’t be Distinguished From the genuine In brilliance Or hardness.