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Word Choice

Word Choice. Word meaning: connotation and denotation. intelligent. Divide your page in to half by drawing a line down the middle of the paper. Please copy the word intelligent into your notebook in the first column. What does this word mean to you?

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Word Choice

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  1. Word Choice Word meaning: connotation and denotation

  2. intelligent • Divide your page in to half by drawing a line down the middle of the paper. • Please copy the word intelligent into your notebook in the first column. • What does this word mean to you? • What do you picture when you hear this word? • Jot your thoughts down next to the word.

  3. intelligent • The dictionary definition: • Having good understanding or high mental capacity; quick to comprehend • Displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment. • Having the faculty of reasoning and understanding.

  4. What is the difference between what you wrote and the dictionary definition? • Turn to your neighbor and discuss what you found. • Did you notice a difference? If you did, what was the difference?

  5. genius • Please copy the word geniusinto your notebook. • What does this word mean to you? • What do you picture when you hear this word? • Jot your thoughts down next to the word.

  6. genius • Dictionary Definition • An exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative original work in science, art, music, etc. • A person who has an extraordinarily high intelligence rating on a psychological test; has an IQ score in the top 2% of the population.

  7. What is the difference between what you wrote and the dictionary definition? • Turn to your neighbor and discuss what you found. • Did you notice a difference? If you did, what was the difference?

  8. algebra • Please copy the word algebra into your notebook. • What does this word mean to you? • What do you picture when you hear this word? • How might it relate to the other two words we just discussed? • Jot your thoughts down next to the word.

  9. algebra • Dictionary definition: • The branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc in the description of such relations.

  10. What is the difference between what you wrote and the dictionary definition? • Turn to your neighbor and discuss what you found. • Did you notice a difference? If you did, what was the difference?

  11. connotation • Please write this on the top of your notes in the first column. • Connotation is a what a word makes us think about and picture. • If connotation is what a word makes us think and picture, what do you think the word denotation is?

  12. denotation • Denotation is how the dictionary defines the word. • SOOOOO what is important to remember here?

  13. Authors’ Craft • What is important to remember is that words have two different ideas attached to them: connotation which is what the word makes us think about and picture AND denotation which is how the dictionary defines a word. • When author’s write they MUST think about WORD CHOICE because words have thoughts and feelings attached to them as well as definition. • Author’s actively think about what readers will feel or picture when they come across a specific word.

  14. brainiac • Copy this word down. • What does this word mean to you? • What do you picture when you see or hear this word? • How does it relate to intelligent and genius? • Jot down some more notes.

  15. brainiac • Dictionary definition: • A highly intelligent person

  16. What is the difference between what you wrote and the dictionary definition? • Turn to your neighbor and discuss what you found. • Did you notice a difference? If you did, what was the difference?

  17. Today you are going to read a really short story. It is so short you will be able to read it in a matter of minutes. • As you read the story, I want you to pay particular attention to connotation. • When a story is this short an author must really make word choices especially precise. Each word has to get across the perfect connotation so that the reader leaves with what the author intended. • As you read and reread this story, jot down words that you think were deliberate choices on the part of the author. • Then jot down what you picture, the connotation. • Pick the best five or six.

  18. Discuss the Story • Turn to your partner and share the words that you picked out and why. • Talk about why the author chose those words as opposed to another word that might have similar denotations or dictionary definitions.

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