Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
When You Come In
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HOMEWORK REMINDERS
Death
of Language—due THURSDAY!
·
Review your scores
on the Progress Check half-sheets I gave you back Friday.
·
Review page 21—which
we fill out THURSDAY, when this assignment is due.
·
Look in the class folder
at Hennigan and Hamilton’s model, if you’re still unsure what this assignment
should look like.
Diction Practice—Click on the link on my
blog!
1. Play free rice at your BEST LEVEL (not starting over at
Level 1) when you finish.
2. 10,000 grains are due by Thursday, February 13th, 2014.
2nd =
1:05-2:10
4th =
2:15-3:20
Writing Lesson #8: Think about a word’s CONNOTATION, as well as its
DENOTATION.
Review earlier lessons
quickety-quick, to see where this fits in.
1. Get out your Vocabulary
Variety sheet, and look at the pairs you picked out--words that are synonyms,
but that create different images in your mind.
2. Think about which one sounds more
positive, and which one sounds more negative. (Not all pairs will
work in this way, but we’ll take a look at a few.)
a. Sweet
and sugary
b. Scented
and odorous
c. Spotted
and freckled
d. Fragile
and tender
e. athlete and jock
attractive hot beautiful good-looking
gorgeous cute pretty booty-licious
attractive hot yummy handsome
delicious fine sexy beautiful
gorgeous eye-appealing
f. attractive beautiful or hot or appealing or gorgeous
or hermosa or eye-pleasing or good-looking or
g. attractive hot or handsome or good-looking or
drop-dead sexy or cute or foxy or smoking or eye-pleasing or hunky
3. “Overweight” —spectrum from
positive to negative. Reminder: this is an academic discussion of connotation
versus denotation—not a reason to be inappropriate and/or offensive. Put yourself on a five-second delay.
4. List
as many SYNONYMS as you can think of for “overweight.”
a. Make sure they are not slang.
b. Make sure they are adjectives.
Denotation Definition
the
literal or primary meaning of a word
Connotation Definition
an
idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary
meaning.
synonyms: overtone,
undertone, undercurrent, implication, hidden meaning, nuance, hint, echo,
association, suggestion, insinuation
what
makes a word “loaded”
Writing Lesson Practice,
Activity 1
What Are You Suggesting?
(yellow page 26)
1. You’re
going to attack this assignment with a partner I’ve selected for you.
2. Use
your Vocab Variety sheet for help, as needed.
· Perfumed odorous
· Dotted blotched
· Shiny flashy
· Curved wavy
· Buttery oily
Reminders About Your Work
with Your Partner
and About Your Responses
1. Be
appropriate and kind.
2. We’ll
share out with the whole class.
MORE
POSITIVE MORE NEGATIVE
· Perfumed odorous
· Dotted blotched
· Shiny flashy
· Curved wavy
· Buttery oily
· Smart brainy
· Smooth slick
· University college
· Erase delete
· ignoramus dummy
· head-strong stubborn
· unripe raw
· elderly old
2. spicy peppery
3. ugly hideous
4. Shout yell
5. Singe burn
6. dirty filthy
7. crazy insane
8. hilarious
funny
9. passionate
obsessive
10. musician band
geek
11. broken split
12. Murmur mutter
13. Beautiful hot
14. Well-liked popular
15. Buttery oily
16. Uncooked raw
17. Rough Sandy
18. Intelligent nerdy
19. Speechless mute
20. Bright smart
21. Creative weird
22. Piercing ear-splitting
23. Bookish nerdy
24. Creative Imaginative
25. Energetic Hyper
26. To
deteriorate To
Rot
Welcome to TURBO-ACW! J
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
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When You Come In
1.
Please sign in.
2. Grab 4 x 6 notecards (2), if you have
not already done so.
2. Lay out your photo (or have the photo viewable on your
computer) and your page 49 on your desk so I can check it for a homework grade,
please.
·
Big Word for the Week = MEMOIR!
·
Big Word from Last Week = DICTION!
Do you have your Vocab Variety sheet from when we did the class poem?
Writing Assignment Reminder (Out-of-Class)
TWO Post Secret Post Cards are due WEDNESDAY, one to share, one
to mail anonymously.
Writing Assignment: Photo
Memory (15 minutes—explanation and
discussion)
1. Discuss the rubric (first rubric we’ve had this term) for the
assignment. (p. 51)
2. Discuss the four
main focal points of this memoir.
a. Conflict—battle
between two opposing forces; realization; turning point; epiphany; problem;
fight; struggle; obstacle; war; argument; difference; debate
b. Climax—culmination
of the action; highest, most intense part of the plot
c. Setting—where and
when the story occurs
d. Mood—feeling reader
gets from the story; atmosphere
Models:
· Gavin
· Adam
Pair-Share: Photo Memory
1. With a partner, discuss your page 49.
a. What is the heart of the story you want to tell?
b. What are you looking forward to in creating this narrative?
c. What are you worried about?
Started @ 11:40; ending about
11:55-ish
Note:
Keep the models going around, until everyone has a chance to flip
through them, please.
Writing Workshop: Photo Memory (twenty minutes)
Started after lunch
Homework
1. Two Post Secret Postcards for WEDNESDAY
2. Photo Memory Memoir
for FRIDAY
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