April 10

Welcome back after your long Easter weekend. Today we watched a movie on Mood and Tone and then talked about connotation and denotation. We read two poems about cockroaches and compared the tone and began to look at things like imagery and diction and how that contributes to our understanding of the poet's tone. We looked at some "chicken" books and discussed what chicken meant in each one and finally prepared a brief description of some "new" cars. There are 3 options in the car assignment and each pair was to choose 1. Tomorrow, each group will have 30 sec to 1 min to do a TV commercial style report on their car and convince the rest of us that it appeals to the right people etc. Make sure you use the thesaurus in preparing your pitch so you get the best adjectives to convey the correct connotations and tone about your car! Terms lists 7 & 8 were also given out. Please have the terms for list 7 (side 1) done for tomorrow. There will be a quiz on terms list #7 on Thursday. You only have 2 more weeks to catch up on quizzes and NHI assignments for this term. Term ends on April 20.