1. Monday, September 21 and Tuesday, September 22
Have you RAW book on your desk.

2. Today’s Agenda Stamp Significant Moment Chart/Discuss Do Now: Diction
Analyze “Shame” for Diction
Connotation of words

3. Do Now: Diction Your letter pleased me greatly.
Write the sentence below at the top of a new page in your spiral:
Your letter pleased me greatly.
Now rewrite the sentence as many times as you can using a different noun for ‘letter’ and a different phrase for ‘pleased me greatly’ that has the same sentiment.
Prize for the writer with the most new sentences!

4. Diction Practice Continued…
I’m going to give you a lackluster word – it might be a verb, a noun, or an adjective.
Your job is to generate a list of words that are better substitutes – words that are more precise, provide more meaning, and/or help the reader visualize the scene.
You will then share your list with a partner and combine them on chart paper.
Finally, we will quickly gallery walk the pages and add any missing words to the lists.

5. Details Paragraph
With your partner, rewrite the rather lackluster, boring paragraphs to make each more interesting through diction and detail choices.

6. Connotation
Connotation means an idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing. For example, calling someone a chicken doesn’t mean they are a bird that lays eggs, right? It means the person is afraid.
Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word.

7. Strong Language in “Shame”
In your RAW book, create a chart with two columns.
In the left-hand column, record language you find with strong connotation. Think: did the author choose this word for a reason?
In the right-hand column, briefly explain the CONNOTATION of the word.
Now compare your list with a partner’s list. Did you choose the same verb but find different connotations? Add any word your partner found that you did not.