1. agenda **Synthesis Essay Due! *IR *Voice Lesson: Diction #1
*Vocab Review Unit 2
*CTLS Pre-Test Unit 2
*Pick One (w/writing response – dialogue practice)

2. Reminders Synthesis Essay – Due today!
Vocab Quiz Unit 2 – Monday, 2/11
Reading Quiz over texts…coming soon…this Friday?!

3. ir

4. Diction… Diction refers to the author’s choice of words.
Words are the basic tools of the writer. Just as the painter uses color and light or a musician uses sounds and rhythms, a writer uses words.
In order to write well, you have to find the PERFECT word.

5. The Perfect Word… Is clear, concrete, and exact
Says exactly what you want it to say
Is specific
Creates a picture in your mind
Example – You don’t hang around the house; you mope around the house.
Is NOT a dead word; those words are overused, tired, and have lost their freshness.

6. Forbidden Words good nice pretty beautiful fine bad thing really very
terrible
wonderful
a lot

7. Looking Deeper into Words
Words do not just have meaning; they have Denotation and Connotation
Denotation is the LITERAL meaning
Connotation is the FEELING of the word

8. Diction in Action… -- Louis Sachar, Holes
Read and Think:
Write About It:
A redheaded woman was there with Trout. Kate could see her rummaging through the cabin, dumping drawers, and knocking things from the shelves of cabinets.
-- Louis Sachar, Holes
What picture do you get in your mind when you read the second sentence?
How would the meaning of the sentence change if we changed some of the words? For example:
Kate could see her searching through the cabin, emptying drawers, and taking things off of the shelves of cabinets.

9. SPRINGBOARD VOCABULARY UNIT 2

10. facilitate
prestigious

11. revered
prestigious

12. oracle
matriarch

13. revered
oracle

14. inclination
idyllic

15. revered
facilitate

16. insulate
idyllic

17. insulate
partisan

18. oracle
vicarious

19. Inclination
Disgruntled

20. A. matriarch
B. insulate

21. querulous
matriarch

22. resistant
querulous

23. Disgruntled
translucent

24. CTLS Unit 2 Pre test

25. Pick One
Pick On: Read and discuss; Lit Terms to add to Handout

26. Writing: Practicing with dialogue
The story “Pick One” ends with the narrator making a choice about where to sit in the school cafeteria in his new school. According to him, his choice also determines the race that he identifies with.
Write 8 lines of dialogue using both direct and indirect dialogue from the narrator’s perspective as he talks to his father about what happened at school that day.
Be prepared to share!