Monday, September 18, 2017

Monday, September 18 - PSAT Prep

Objective: By the end of class, students will practice vocabulary and connotations in order to prepare for the PSAT exam.

DO  NOW

Vocabulary Words: Copy into notebooks

SIGNIFICANT - means " important". 

CONNOTATION = an positive or negative idea or feeling that a word suggests in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

DENOTATION - the exact dictionary definition of a word

Direct Instruction

Connotation vs denotation video

connotation game

connotation game

connotation game

Guided / Independent

Complete the exercises on the handout provided to determine the word that is the denotation, the word that has the positive connotation and the word that has the negative connotation.

Explain how the use of positive connotations is significant in the following paragraph.


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