For a powerful lesson on word choice and sentence syntax, watch this 1 min 44 second video with your students. It's a visual and auditory lesson on the impact which words can have. The Lost Generation was written by a twenty-year-old as part of a contest which AARP sponsored entitled, "U @ 50." Well written and well executed.
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