Tag Archives: diction

9/12/2016

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So, my gradebook was up-to-date as of 9:30 last night. That means if there is a mistake, fill out the “Grade Mistake(s) in Skyward” form for me so that I have everything in writing.

 

mistakes

Please make sure that it’s a legitimate grade (as oppose to late work just not having been graded yet). If you don’t fill this out, I will not be able to fix the mistake.

Some other issues I addressed today:

  • The Beo-Boast reflection – you can still do it. It’s a small red link in the Blackboard drop box
  • Drop boxes in Blackboard, even if you did an assignment on paper
  • In order to access my Google documents, you have to have your KISD Google account as your default email account. What does that mean? Log off your personal email account, make sure your school email is logged in and working, and then you can log back in to your personal account. Please, stop sending me requests to access documents and surveys with your personal email account. Use your school email. I don’t know who pOOKiEBear1995@gmail.com is and I am not going to track you down, Pook.

So today, we created a text structure of how we are going to organize our essay and then we started writing it.

chaos-text-structure

The rough draft will be due tomorrow. Aim for about 500 words. If you are really submitting this, I’ve been told it has to be between 350-650 words.

I am going to focus on three things when grading it:

  • Content – is this vague or specific? Did you manage to address the prompt appropriately?
  • Diction/word choice – this needs to be a mature and academic
  • Tone – this should be an academic and mature tone

One thing to think about is that even though word choice affects tone, what are other things that affect the tone of the essay?

III – 10/31/2012

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Ahoy, mateys!

Today, we started out the day talking about diction – that’s a fancy name for WORD CHOICE. We sorted through a list of synonyms and decided whether the words were positive, negative, or neutral.

We talked about the difference between CONNOTATION and DENOTATION.

  • Connotation is how the word is being used – the associated meaning.
  • Denotation is the dictionary definition – (remember DD)

All of these words have pretty much the same DENOTATION, but they have different CONNOTATION. For example, telling Captain Riley that she is slender means something different if you say Captain is scrawny.

Then, each student was given an index card with a mood on the back of it – students to write a description of a dog walking in the park, conveying the attitude on the card. You may not use the word written on the card in their description. You *may* use a dictionary or a thesaurus.

Riley then read each card out loud and students guessed the intended tone.

Lastly, we finished the day off with the American Dream Anticipation guide.

Easy peasy!